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July 9, 2026

Spirit Airlines Photos From Beginning to End

Spirit Airlines’ original color scheme on a DC-9-21 at Boston Massachusetts Story by Ken Kula, photos by William Ellison and Ken Kula Spirit Airlines can trace its roots back to Charter One Airlines, which began operations in 1983. Well...

air racing / Aviation History / Aviation Photography / featured / fighters / Formation Flying / military / warbirds

July 6, 2026

More Single Engined Radial Powered Aircraft From John Freedman

All photos by John Freedman Here are more aircraft photos by John Fedeedman, this time featuring single radial-engined airplanes. Yak 18 Antonov AN-2 Hudson, CAC Wirraway and pair of Harvards Corsair Wildcat and Corsair Gee Bee QED replica Lavochkin...

Air Force Reserve / Air National Guard / Air Transports / Aviation Art / featured / Grumman / military / Special Color Schemes / Tankers / Trainers / Transports / U. S. Air National Guard / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Coast Guard / U.S. Navy

July 4, 2026

Military Tail Art Photo Collection

VF-11 “Red Rippers” F-14 Tomcat tail art on display, the CAG Bird is in the foreground. Photos by Scott Zeno and Ken Kula VF-41 F-14A Tomcat Tomcat tail… Fighter Wing Atlantic Tomcat Tail, pride of the Swordsmen, VF-32 F-14...

Air Transports / Airliners / Aviation History / featured / Special Aviation Events

July 2, 2026

Looking Back… Milwaukee Welcomes Sun Country Airlines

Photos and story by Scott Jankowski Editor’s note: This article went missing from these pages a few years ago… it is reprinted in its entirety to add to our 15-year-old database. It was anything but sunny when N826SY, a...

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June 30, 2026

Military Nose Art Photo Collection

Nose art on a F-15E Strike Eagle. Photos by Scott Zeno and Ken Kula Personalization of an aircraft can represent aircrew, maintenance personnel, or an entire Squadron, Group or Wing. Some artwork is purely ceremonial, but many examples can...

Air Transports / Airliners / Aviation History / Convair / featured

June 27, 2026

The Convairliner

Mohawk Convair 240 at Las Vegas McCarran Airport, March 13, 1968 Story and Photos by Don Linn What many would say is a last-minute reprieve, as of this writing at least, the last Convairliner, a stretched CV-5800, C-GKFS, with...

Air National Guard / Aviation History / featured / fighters / military / Special Events

June 24, 2026

F-35A Lightning II Arrival at the 104th Fighter Wing

F-35A Lightning II Arrival at the 104th Fighter Wing 11 June 2026 1:04 PM Story and photos by Ken Middleton At exactly 1:04 PM on 11 June 2026, 4 F-35A Lightning II’s in formation roared over Barnes Air National...

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June 21, 2026

More Multi-Engined Radial Powered Aircraft From John Freedman

Avro Anson All photos by John Freedman John shares part of his collection of multi-radial engined aircraft photos here, enjoy! Look for another group of his photos here at Photorecon.net soon… next time it’ll be single engined radial-powered aircraft. ...

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June 18, 2026

NATO Tiger Meet 2026

Story and photo by Shawn Byers “Hard to be Humble” is the moniker of the NATO Tigers. The NATO Tiger Meet is an annual exercise held in a NATO country of Europe and attended by North Atlantic Treaty Organization...

Air Transports / Airliners / Boeing / Civil aviation / featured / Transports

June 15, 2026

Boeing B-737 Classic Scrapbook

Boeing 737-301 Classic wearing the eye-catching livery of Piedmont Airlines during November 1986. Photos by Don Linn, Scott Jankowski and Ken Kula Known as the Boeing 737 Classic group of airliners, these three versions contained a major powerplant change...

Aviation Photography / Boeing / featured / Lockheed / military / Military Special Operations / U.S. Air Force / U.S. Navy

June 12, 2026

A Military Electronic Warfare, Communications and Reconnaissance Aircraft Scrapbook

The last three Grumman EA-6B Prowlers in U. S. service performing their final fly-by at MCAS Cherry Point in 2019 Photos by Shawn Byers, Scott Jankowski, Scott Zeno, William Ellison, Bob Finch and Ken Kula Within this article are...

Aerial Refueling / Air National Guard / Air Transports / featured / military / U.S. Air Force

June 9, 2026

FLYING WITH THE 128TH AIR REFUELING WING PART 2

TITLE PHOTO:8064 Story and photos by Scott Jankowski except where noted The 128th Air Refueling Wing has operated the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker since 1977 after operating another Boeing product the KC-97L Stratofreighter from 1965 to 1977. The unit would...

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June 6, 2026

Colors! Military Aircraft Wearing Special Color Schemes – Volume 2

VFA-122 F/A-18F B-1B EP-3 F-15EX RNLAF F-16 DEMONSTRATION AIRCRAFT BELGIAN AIR FORCE F-16 DEMONSTRATION AIRCRAFT TURKISH AIR FORCE F-16 DEMONSTRATION AIRCRAFT USAF F-16 DEMONSTRATION AIRCRAFT GEORGIA ANG F-15B SOUTH DAKOTA ANG F-16 BELGIAN AIR FORCE 349 SQD F-16...