Older/exotic aircraft flying in/for the military

[Russ]

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?

 

[SIG600]

NASA is still flying an F-8 around somewhere.

 

[Birdstrike]

The DC Army Guard still flies UH-1s.

 

[b707guy]

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.

 

[Rez O. Lewshun]

http://www.oldairplanepictures.com/

http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

http://uscockpits.com/

 

[JungleJett]

The DC Army Guard still flies UH-1s.

So does the USAF, USMC and I think the Navy.

 

[Be 23]

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.

 

[Ill Mitch]

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.

 

[satpak77]

is AF still flying the T-38?

 

[Huggyu2]

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.

 

[satpak77]

There are still 3 U-2's flying that were built in '67.


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.

actually I meant T-37

i admit complete moron-ness as they are NOT the same airplane

T-37 Tweet made by Cessna was the plane I meant.

(Admitting being stupid)

 

[Birdstrike]

The Army got rid of its last UH-1's at mother Rucker by painting "US Air Force" on the tail.

There's always an exception. The DC ARNG (121st Med Co Air Amb) still flies single-engine UH-1s out of KDAA. Believe they're Victor models.

 

[Huggyu2]

actually I meant T-37

There are two pilot training classes at Sheppard flying the T-37. When they are done, that's it for T-37 flying in the USAF. Should be around March 2009, I'm guessing.
There are a couple of T-37/A-37's flying privately. A few countries might still be flying them too.

 

[HueyHerc]

The Army got rid of its last UH-1's at mother Rucker by painting "US Air Force" on the tail.

Technically yes...but those ain't the same old "H" models any more. They were completely refurbished to zero time with new engines, tailbooms, Bell 212 main and tail rotor components, etc, etc. Turned them into nice "new" Huey II's.

HH

 

[McGillicutty]

The O2A/B is still used pretty heavily by Airscan.