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Airplanes and other flying machines captured on the ground |
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 | The company owns two blimps, the Bloomin' Onion I and Bloomin' Onion II, named after their famed appetizer. |  | 11/07/2009 | 62 | 
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 | The 9 Squadron with MiG-29A/UB and MiG-29SMT is based at San'aa Airport. | | 11/07/2009 | 39 |
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 | The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF, or CAL FIRE) is the State of California's agency responsible for fire protection in State Responsibility Areas of California as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests. It is often referred to as The California Department of Forestry, which was the name of the department before the 1990s. In the 1970s a... | | 11/06/2009 | 8 |
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 | Operator: Air Transport International - ATI
Type: McDonnell Douglas DC-8-72CF
Registration: N722CX
Serial: 46130/542
The Douglas DC-8 is a four-engined jet airliner, manufactured from 1958 to 1972. Launched later than the competing Boeing 707, the DC-8 nevertheless established Douglas in a strong position in the airliner market, and remained in production unt... | | 11/06/2009 | 6 |
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 | USAAF S/N 42-72449 is a C-54D-1-DC, one of 380 C-54Ds built by Douglas Aircraft in Chicago, Illinois and accepted on February 5, 1945. It was flown to the San Diego Naval Air Station and transferred to the U.S. Navy as R5D-3 with the Bu. No. 50874, and it spent its entire service life with the Navy. It served with a number of units including VR-1 at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland; VR-8 at Hickam ... | | 11/06/2009 | 5 |
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 | Conversions of Tu-134B airliners (NATO 'Crusty') for training pilots and navigators of RFAS strategic aviation.
The Tupolev Tu-134 (NATO codename: 'Crusty') is a Soviet twin-engined airliner, similar to the American Douglas DC-9. One of the most widely used aircraft in the former Warsaw Pact countries, its number in active service is decreasing because of noise restrictions. The ... | | 11/05/2009 | 35 |
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 | Registration: RA-86102
Serial: 51483207070
Manufacturer: VASO
Operator: S7 Airlines
The Ilyushin Il-86 is a medium-range wide-body jet airliner. Designed and tested by the Ilyushin design bureau in the 1970s, it was certificated by the Soviet aircraft industry during the 1970s and 1980s, manufactured jointly in the USSR and Poland, and marketed by the USSR. I... | | 11/05/2009 | 25 |
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 | This B-17G is sitting at Mather AFB in California. A link to the group that operates the aircraft is included in the placemark. As the plane tours, visitors can not only walk through the aircraft, but they can also purchase flight experience time. | | 11/04/2009 | 46 |
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 | The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Vertikal`no-Vzletayuschaya Amphibia (vertical take-off amphibious aircraft) was developed in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Designed to be able to take-off from the water and fly at high speed over long distances, It was to make true flights at high altitude, but also have the capability of 'flying' efficiently just above the sea surface, using ground effect. The V... | | 11/04/2009 | 11 |
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 | Janes reports that the service designation Il-82 has been applied to the Il-76VPK Airborne command post or airborne communications relay (Vozdushnyye Komandnyye Punkt: Airborne Command Post) adaptation of Il-76MD known as version 65C. Two examples (SSSR- [later RA-]76450 and 76451) delivered to Zhukovsky after modifications 22 September and 30 November 1987. The two aircraft (SSSR-76450 and -76... | | 11/03/2009 | 150 |
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 | The Ilyushin Il-28 is a jet bomber aircraft of the immediate post war period that was originally manufactured for the Soviet Air Force. It was the USSR's first such aircraft to enter large-scale production. It was also licence-built in China as the Harbin H-5. Total production in the USSR was 6,316 aircraft, and over 319 H-5s were built. Only 187 examples of the HJ-5 training variant were manuf... | | 11/03/2009 | 110 |
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 | Type: B-29A-65-BN
Serial: 44-62134
Construction: 11611 | | 11/03/2009 | 70 |
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 | Type: B-29-70BW
Serial: 44-69957
Construction: 10789
Severely damaged and gutted nose section for use in restoration of B-29 44-69972 "Doc" recovered from China Lake. This aircraft took a direct hit from a weapons test. | | 11/03/2009 | 41 |
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 | Operator: Czech Air Force
Type: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23ML
Registration: 4644
Serial: 24644/17218
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 (Russian: Микоян и Гуревич МиГ-23; NATO reporting name: Flogger) is a swing-wing fighter aircraft, designed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich bu... | | 11/03/2009 | 19 |
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 | A Vickers Viscount near the runway a Montevideo Airport | | 11/03/2009 | 17 |
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 | Type: Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3
Registration: N3CJ
Serial: 525B-711
The Cessna CitationJet/CJ series (Model 525) are American turbofan-powered light corporate jets built by the Cessna Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas. The Citation brand of business jets encompasses six distinct "families" of aircraft. The Model 525 CitationJet was the basis for one of... | | 10/30/2009 | 180 |
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 | Type: Cessna 680 Citation Sovereign
Registration: N680CS
Serial: 680-709
The Cessna Citation Sovereign (Cessna Model 680 Sovereign) is an American mid-size business jet developed by Cessna. It is currently the second largest member of the Citation product line, with only the Citation X being larger. The Sovereign is considered a transcontinental aircraft and is used... | | 10/30/2009 | 51 |
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 | Serial: 44-69972
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber that was flown by the United States Military in World War II and the Korean War, and by other nations afterwards. The name "Superfortress" was derived from that of its well-known predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress, and carried on a series of names for Boeing-built bombers f... | | 10/30/2009 | 54 |
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 | Zlin Z-226MS (OK-MRA) towing a sailplane Let L-13 Blanik (OK-3814). | | 10/30/2009 | 19 |
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 | KC-135 Stratotankers on the tarmac at Bangor International Airport, home of the 101st Air Refueling Wing, aka the Maineiacs. | | 10/30/2009 | 13 |
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 | This helicopter looks like a rare Mil Mi-6 from the Algerian air force. | | 10/30/2009 | 30 |
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 | Type: Junkers Ju-52/3mg8e
Registration: D-AQUI
Serial: 130714
The Junkers Ju 52 (nicknamed Tante Ju - "Auntie Ju" - and "Iron Annie") was a German transport aircraft manufactured from 1932 to 1945. It saw both civilian and military service during the 1930s and 1940s. In a civilian role, it flew with over 12 air carriers including Swissair and Lufthansa as an airline... | | 10/28/2009 | 246 |
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 | Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25PU at Yugorsk | | 10/28/2009 | 679 |
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 | James James Crawford Angel (born Springfield, Missouri, USA, August 1, 1899 – December 8, 1956) was an American aviator after whom Angel Falls in Venezuela, the highest waterfall in the world, is named.
The falls, which cascade from the top of Auyantepui in the remote Gran Sabana region of Venezuela, were not known to the outside world until Jimmie Angel flew over them on 16 Nove... | | 10/28/2009 | 9 |
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 | Type: De Havilland Australia Vampire T35 (DH-115)
Registration: A79-638
Serial: DHA4160
The de Havilland DH.100 Vampire was a British jet-engined fighter of the Second World War, the second jet-powered aircraft commissioned by the Royal Air Force during the War (the first being the Gloster Meteor), although it was not used in combat. The Vampire served with front li... | | 10/21/2009 | 191 |
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