March Field Air Museum
Looking Back (Film and slide scans)
Riverside, California
October 2000
A brief photo-report using my slides taken during a visit.
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Boeing B-47E Stratojet (53-2275).
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Left to right: North American F-86H Sabre (53-1304 'FU-304').
Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird (61-7975).
Northrop YA-9A (71-1368) in competition it lost out to the A-10 in the mid-1970s and only two were produced.
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Left to right: Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (58-0513).
Fairchild C-123K Provider (54-0612 'IE').
Convair VC-131D Samaritan (54-2808 registered N8425H).
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Left to right: Boeing B-29A Superfortress (44-61669) named 'Three Feathers III'. The B-29 first flew in 1942 and carried more bombs higher, farther, and faster than any other bomber of World War II. Of the 3,970 B-29s built, around 26 complete B-29s survive today, 24 in the US.
Grumman HU-16E Albatross (1293).
Vultee BT-13 Valiant (41-1306 registered N54865 marked as 'BI-211') used as a Japenese 'Val' mock-up for film 'Tora, Tora, Tora'.
North American B-25J Mitchell (44-31032 registered N3174G) with David Tallichet/Military Aircraft Restoration Corp, Chino loaned to March Field Air Museum. As photographed in 1981.