Grumman HU-16 Albatross, an amphibious aircraft built for U.S. Air Force search-and-rescue missions. Watch it power through the water before climbing effortlessly onto land using its retractable landing gear. Capable of operating from both open water and conventional runways, the Albatross has rescued countless downed aircrews and stranded sailors in places where few other aircraft could reach.

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F14 Tomcat.

 

SBD-5 circling over USS Enterprise CV-6 during operations in the Central Pacific, March 1944.

 

US Marines KC-130 [166765] and an F-35 [Reg.N/A] collide during mid-air refueling over California (US). Fighter crashes, pilot ejects safely, KC-130 crash lands in a carrot field, all 8 aboard survive.

 

USN C2A Greyhound departing from Prestwick Airport returning to the USS Harry S. Truman (Carrier transiting from the North Sea on through the Channel her way to the Mediterranean)

 

Northrop F-89J of the Wisconsin National Guard, 1972.

 

E-2D Hawkeye, attached to the Tigertails of Airborne Command and Control Squadron (VAW) 125, lands on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76).

 

Grumman S-2E Tracker of VS-21 is pulled to a catapult aboard USS Kearsarge (CVS-33), 19 July 1969.

 

North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco, light attack and observation aircraft.

 

Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion.

 

View of a crashed U.S. Navy Boeing-Vertol UH-46D Sea Knight on the fantail of the ammunition ship USS Suribachi (AE-21). The helicopter experienced a mechanical faliure during an ammunition offload from the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower off Virginia (USA), in September 1992. Only one crewman was injured.

 

Last Martin JRM Mars was sold to Tucson Museum.

 

MC-130J Air Commando II conducts air-to-air refueling with an MH-60 Black Hawk.

 

Grumman TBF Avenger.

 

McDonnell Douglas F-15 ACTIVE fighter aircraft in its first supersonic yaw vectoring flight. 1973.

 

A-4 Skyhawk.

 

A US Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 104th Fighter Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard fires an AGM-65 Maverick missile over northwest Florida. 13 January 2004