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The Hagerstown Aviation Museum has acquired a 1993 Fairchild RC-26B Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) to add to its invaluable collection of historic Fairchild built aircraft.
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It was a day that many people in Central Illinois will never forget. The U.S. Presidential aircraft, Air Force One, had one of its wheels stuck in the mud at Willard Airport in Savoy. President Bill Clinton was on his way to speak at the University of Illinois at the time.
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Imagine seeing an F-15E Strike Eagle with no souls onboard take off with a large missile mounted on top of the fueslage, it’s a pretty cool sight to behold. In 2006, Boeing proposed an unmanned variant of the F-15E Strike Eagle, called the F-15 Global Strike Eagle (GSE), for air-launching missiles with the launch vehicle mounted dorsally.
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A and T Recovery, a U.S. company that specializes in recovering WW II aircraft, has proposed to recover four warbirds that were lost when aircraft carrier USS Lexington was sunk.
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By Photographer Second Class H.S. Fawcett, U.S. Navy – U.S. Navy photo <a rel=”nofollow” class=”external text” href=”https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-10000/80-G-10613.html”>80-G-10613</a>, Public Domain, Link
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On this day in 1983, the F/A-18 became an operational fighter with the first squadron being U.S. Marine Corps’ VMFA-314 at MCAS El Toro.
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