Midwest Meets West: Look Back on a Western Adventure

By Fred Harl

The Aero Experience recently posted a series of stories on the trip to the Cal Fire Tanker Bases, but there were other great destinations on that journey. Here we have a blast from the recent past from our western trip, including an appearance by Mark and Jack Nankivil and a previous stop at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.      

Commercial traffic Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Commercial Traffic at Los Angeles International Airport

Estrella Warbirds Museum, Paso Robles, CA 

Grumman F-9F-8P Cougar

Hollister Municipal Airport, CA

Pacific Aerospace 750XL

Cessna 337B Skymaster

Cessna 337F Skymaster 

Luscombe 8A

Moffett Field Historical Society Museum, Moffett Federal Airfield, CA

Historic Airship Hangar 1 

Lockheed P-3C Orion

NASA Lockheed ER-2

NASA Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter

NASA McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet

Naval Air Station Alameda, CA

LTV A-7 Corsair II

Naval Air Station Point Mugu, CA Missile Park

McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II

Grumman F-14A Tomcat

National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, Albuquerque, NM

Boeing JB-47E Stratojet 

Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, Pueblo, CO

North American F-100D Super Sabre

Vought F-8U-1 Crusader

Lockheed SP-2E Neptune

North American RA-5C Vigilante 

Santa Fe Municipal Airport, NM 

General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark

Lockheed U-2RT Over Chico, CA

USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA

Vought F-8U-1 Crusader

Grumman F-14A Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II

Jet Blast Deflector

North American T-28B Trojan

Apollo and Gemini Test Spacecraft, Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King

Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King Apollo Spacecraft Recovery Aircraft

Sikorsky SH-3H Sea King Apollo Recovery Missions

Kaman SH-2 Sea Sprite

Piasecki HUP Retriever