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Russ

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Heard a contractor was still flying the A3 whale on some sort of contract. NASA was up until recently flying a F106 and still flies WB57's. Navy has a couple of F4's (not drones) Anything else cool flying in research, training roles?
 
The DC Army Guard still flies UH-1s.
 
Raytheon flew two A-3s at least up until recently out of KBED. Lots of noise and smoke from those J-57s. To go with it were lots of noise complaints from the community whiners who moved in nearby.
 
The Army got rid of its last UH-1's at mother Rucker by painting "US Air Force" on the tail.

NASA parked its last KC-135A in 2005 after replacing it with a very used Navy C-9.
 
All sorts of cool stuff out there.
ATAC flies Drakens and Kfirs
There are a few MiG's flying around (not the Groom Lake ones). My buddy flies a MiG-21 on some stuff.
The Starfighters out of St. Pete did some contract work with F-104's, but I don't think they have done anything in awhile except airshows.
 
There are still 3 U-2's flying that were built in '67.

is AF still flying the T-38?
You're not kidding, are you??
OK, OK,... I take this personally, I guess,... seeing as I just flew one 4 hours ago.
Yes, they still fly them. Most are now T-38C aircraft at the 4 pilot training bases,... but Beale, Whiteman, and Holloman still fly about 45 T-38A models.
The jets at Beale were all '64 & '65 models, but they got two "new" jets that are '68 models.
All in all, there are about 500 T-38's still flying.
Edwards has around 10 assigned to the test world.
NASA flies about 30 of them.
The Navy has maybe 4-6 jets at Pax River.
There are some international operators too.
And a handful of privately owned T-38's.
 

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