|
Airplanes and other flying machines captured on the ground |
| | Name | Rating | Date Added | Downloads | |
|
 | Historical Fighter in the frontyard. |  | 11/14/2009 | 461 | 
 |
|
 | Loch Lomond Seaplanes is an airline based in Scotland. After receiving approval from the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority and Clydeport to launch services from Glasgow Seaplane Terminal, by Glasgow's Science Centre on the River Clyde in Glasgow city centre it's maiden scheduled service from Glasgow to Oban began in August 2007, making it Europe's first city centre seaplane service. It is... | | 11/11/2009 | 89 |
|
|
 | Under sunny skies but unseasonably cool temperatures, the 3rd annual Wings N Wheels Military, Air, and Vehicle Show took place during the weekend of 25-26 Match 2006. Under the coordination and operational services of David Schultz Airshows LLC, the event took on a new flavor this year with numerous new displays, military demonstrations, pyrotechnics, and an expanded static display. | | 11/11/2009 | 86 |
|
|
 | Operator: US Airways
Type: Airbus A319-112
Registration: N717UW
Serial: 1069
Carolina Panthers: An Airbus A319 operated by US Airways, introduced in September 2007 | | 11/09/2009 | 96 |
|
|
 | Operator: Alaska Airlines
Type: Boeing 737-4Q8
Registration: N784AS
Serial: 28199/2826
Two aircraft, the "Spirit of Disneyland" and the "Magic of Disneyland," feature well-known Disney characters in tribute to the airline's long-term partnership with Disneyland® Resort. | | 11/09/2009 | 43 |
|
|
 | Type: F-105G-1RE
Bu-No: 63-8278
Serial: 55
Formerly operated by the 35th TFW out of George AFB CA this 'Wild Weasel' Thunderchief was retired to AMARC in July 1980. In 1988 she was moved to the site of the former Mather AFB in Sacramento CA where she has been restored to her former splendour. | | 11/08/2009 | 62 |
|
|
 | The Mil Mi-14 (NATO reporting name "Haze") is a Soviet anti-submarine helicopter which is derived from the earlier Mi-8.
Mi-14PZh
Amphibious firebuster version of Mi-14BT. Conversion price about USD1M.
The Mil Mi-14 is built in antisubmarine, mine countermeasures, and search and rescue versions. Its features include two Klimov TV3-117MT turboshaft... | | 11/08/2009 | 55 |
|
|
 | The aircraft was bought from the US Navy by Thomas W Kendall, a retired businessman who converted it to a luxury flying yacht.
In the spring of 1960 Mr Kendall took a pleasure trip around the world with his wife and children together with his secretary and her son. A photographer joined the group to cover part of the trip for life magazine.
On the 22nd March 1960 t... | | 11/08/2009 | 74 |
|
|
 | A few KM north of Saint Petersburg this giant Antonov An-8 plane rests in the woods.
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/12/lost-antonov-8-plane-in-russia.html | | 11/08/2009 | 62 |
|
|
 | Type: PZL-Mielec SBLim-2M (MiG-15UTI)
Registration: 400
Serial: 1A07050
This PZL-built version of the MiG 15 UTI was formerly '50' with the Polish Air Force. It was acquired as part of a batch by Barry Hempel and shipped to Archerfield in March 1993 ex storage Mierzecice AB, Poland. Currently displayed on a pole in fictitious Soviet markings outside what used to be... | | 11/08/2009 | 18 |
|
|
 | Type: De Havilland DH-114 Heron Srs 1B
Registration: ZK-BBM
Serial: 14011
The de Havilland DH.114 Heron was a small, propeller-driven British airliner that first flew on 10 May 1950. It was a development of the twin-engine de Havilland Dove, with a stretched fuselage and two more engines. It was designed as a rugged, conventional low-wing monoplane with tricycle und... | | 11/08/2009 | 14 |
|
|
 | The Lockheed Martin P-3 AEW Orion was developed using ex-Royal Australian Air Force and US Navy P-3B airframes, combined with the APS-125 Radar and Mission System (later retrofitted with an APS-138 system) from the United States Navy E-2 Hawkeye carrier-borne AEW&C aircraft. The United States Customs Service, which is at this time the sole user of the P-3 AEW, took delivery of the first one... | | 11/08/2009 | 17 |
|
|
 | Antonov An-22 Antei (Russian: Антей (Antaeus) (NATO reporting name "Cock") was the world's largest aircraft, until the advent of American C-5 Galaxy and later the Soviet An-124. Powered by 4 contra-rotating turboprops, the design remains the world's largest turboprop-powered aircraft. It first appeared outside the Soviet Union at the 1965 Paris Air Show. | | 11/08/2009 | 35 |
|
|
 | Looks like an Antonov An-8.
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/10/strange-vision-of-abandoned-plane-on.html | | 11/07/2009 | 60 |
|
|
 | The company owns two blimps, the Bloomin' Onion I and Bloomin' Onion II, named after their famed appetizer. | | 11/07/2009 | 137 |
|
|
 | The 9 Squadron with MiG-29A/UB and MiG-29SMT is based at San'aa Airport. | | 11/07/2009 | 74 |
|
|
 | 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 | 12 |
|
|
 | 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 | 11 |
|
|
 | 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 | 10 |
|
|
 | 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 | 45 |
|
|
 | 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 | 41 |
|
|
 | 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 | 56 |
|
|
 | 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 | 27 |
|
|
 | 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 | 160 |
|
|
 | 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 | 122 |
|
Subscribe in a reader
Subscribe by e-mail
Get updates via Twitter
Connect on Facebook
