Random Aviation Photos #6

 

Mike Colaner caught this MiG-23UB in a sinister pose, at New Castle Delaware.

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Scott Yoak in his pristine North American P-51 Mustang “Quicksilver”.

A Maule seaplane making a splash at Greenville, Maine.

PSA BAe-146 and MD-80s at their gates at LAX airport many years ago.

A Shorts Skyvan at Anchorage, Alaska.

A Boeing B-777 freighter turns onto the active runway at Anchorage, Alaska.

Another angle of the MiG-23UB (“UB” is the 2-seat version) at New Castle, Delaware.

F-16C lands at Klamath Falls, Oregon, carrying a special 70th Anniversary paint scheme.

Mike Colaner caught this F-18E Super Hornet apparently passing under an overhead canopy.

Special colors on this Star Wars – themed F/A-18 Growler pay homage to the Squadron’s name. The VAQ-209 “Star Warriors” were once based at NAS Andrews in Maryland, but now reside in Washington State, at NAS Whidbey Island. 

This is a Curtiss “Jenny”, a restored World War I DH4, and might be the last of her kind in America, or the world.  

Another “CAG bird”, this F/A-18E jet carries the colors of VFA-137.

This Super Hornet from VX-23 carries the Test Squadron’s special color scheme.

USAF C20B Gulfstream at Madison, Wisconsin on July 26, 2013.

McGuire AFB – based KC-10A Extender on approach.

A Navy C-130T inbound to McGuire AFB, New Jersey.

USAF F-15E Strike Eagle Demonstration Team showing its high speed pass.

Sneak attack by a MiG-17 during a Portsmouth, New Hampshire air show.

This Convair 580 was about to embark on a passenger flight between Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks Connecticut and Toronto’s Pearson International Airport in Mississauga Ontario.

Best Airlines operated this DC-9-15 for ten months from British Midland Airlines before returning it, in 1982.

Here’s the first Airbus A-380 arrival at Bradley International Airport, on short final for runway 06 in the early morning.

A U.S. Navy C-20 performs a flypast during the U.S. Navy’s Centennial of Naval Aviation celebration at NAS North Island in California.

From one tanker to another, a Maine Air National Guard KC-135E refuels a USAF KC-10A Extender over the western part of the State of Maine.

A 65th Aggressor Squadron F-15C taxis out for a Red Flag mission at Nellis AFB, Nevada.