Kirtland AFB Air Show Looking Back (to my pre-digital camera days) Albuquerque, New Mexico October 6, 1996

A brief photo-report using my scanned slides taken during the Kirtland Air Show of 1996.

Boeing C-135E Stratolifter (60-0375) with the Air Force Material Command (AFMC) at Edwards AFB.

Left to right: Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk (82-23718) with 512 RQS Kirtland AFB, McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle (88-1697 'MO') with 389FS at Mountain Home AFB, Beechcraft T-1A Jayhawk (93-0652 'LB' '52FTS') with 52 Flying Training Squadron.

Left to right: F-16C Fighting Falcons (88-0543 'NM' '188FS', 89-2021 'NM' and 88-0477 'NM') with 'The Tacos' 188th Fighter Squadron, 150th Fighter Wing at Kirtland AFB.

Left to right: General Dynamics F-16D Fighting Falcon (87-0365 'NM') and F-16C Fighting Falcon (86-0224 'NM') both with 'The Tacos' 150th DSE (Defense System Evaluation), 150th Fighter Wing at Kirtland AFB.

Left to right: McDonnell Douglas F-4E Phantom (68-0538 'HO' '20FS/AMU') 20th FS, 49th FW 'Silver Lobos' from Holloman AFB, Cessna 305A (N219TH c/n 22611) 'Saigon Tea', Mikoyan - Gurevich MiG-21 F-13 (Ex TNI-AU, ex USAF marked 'Red 150') preserved.

Left to right: Lockheed F-80B Shooting Star (45-8501) New Mexico ANG preserved. Ling-Temco-Vought A-7D Corsair II (72-0177 marked as '72-0245') on display outside 150th Fighter Wing, New Mexico ANG from 1993.

USAF Rescue Museum, Kirtland AFB

Piasecki/Vertol CH-21B Workhorse 'Flying Banana'(52-8691 marked '34343').

Left to right: Sikorsky UH-19B Chickasaw (52-7587 marked '13893') 1550 ATTW, moved to Wright-Patterson Museum. Karmen HH-43 Huskie (59-1578), Sikorsky HH-34J Seabat (148938).

Left to right: Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (46457 USN marked 34077 USAF, later N4582U), Grumman Albatross HU-16E (1280 marked '51-0071') 1550 ATTW, Douglas Skytrain SC-47A (42-100995 marked '0-35732').