Aviation Photography - Mojave Airport

Mojave Airport - National Test Pilot School
Looking Back (to my pre-digital camera days)
October 2000

A brief photo-report using my slides taken during a airfield visit in 2000.

Mojave is a former United States Marine Corps auxillery airfield, a flight testing centre since the 1970s and is used for heavy aircraft maintenance and storage centre. More recently the activities at Mojave has become a Civilian Aerospace Test Center.

McDonnell Douglas QF-4G Phantom II (69-7218 AMARG FP598).

Left to right: McDonnell Douglas QF-4G Phantom IIs (69-7218 and 69-0303).

McDonnell Douglas QF-4G Phantom II (69-7581 'WW' AMARG FP827)

Left to right: McDonnell Douglas QF-4G Phantom II (69-7581 'WW').

Left to right: McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom IIs (65-0763 registered N426FS and 66-7483 registered N430FS) with Flight Systems.

Left to right: Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (21342 RCAF registered N303FS) with Flight Systems. To Historic Flight Foundation, Paine Field, Everett, Washington in 2019.
Candair F-86 Sabre Mk.5 (N86FS) with Flight Systems.
Candair F-86 Sabre Mk.6 (N87FS) with Flight Systems.

Boeing KC-135T Stratotanker (60-0337) with KC-135R Stratotanker (62-3565).

Left to right: Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker (57-1485).
Boeing KC-135R Stratotankers (62-3565 with 63-8014).
Boeing KC-135R Stratotankers (63-8014 with 60-0320).

Left to right: Boeing KC-135E Stratotankers (57-1471 with 59-1493).
Boeing KC-135E Stratotankers (59-1493 with 57-1450).
Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker (59-1493).
Boeing KC-135E Stratotanker (57-1503).

Left to right: Fouga CM.170R Magister (363 registered N363F) with Mojojets/Al Hansen, Mojave Airport.
Douglas RA-3B Skywarrior (144843 '024' registered N571HA). To Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport.
Douglas ERA-3B Skywarrior (144832 '102' registered N162TB) with Raytheon.

Left to right: North American CL-13 Sabre (378 SAAF registered N38453) painted as 1487 'FU-487'.
Fairchild C-123K Provider (54-0681 registered N681DG). To Hagerstown Aviation Museum, Hagerstown, Maryland.
Consolidated 28-5AMC Canso A (N314CF). Later to Greybull, Wyoming as N206M.

California City Municipal Airport - October 2000

Left to right: Fouga CM.170R Magister (197 registered N315VB).
Hawker Sea Fury FB.11 (WN480 registered N60SF) in Royal Canadian Navy colours as '181'. Raced at Reno before going to the Military Aviation Museum and Fighter Factory, Virginia Beach Airport, Virginia.