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[Scott Rose]

Check out position
+35° 3' 28.92", -118° 10' 4.80"

And tell me what you see. Looks like a tracker and and Albatross among others

[TimAPNY]

Are you checkingout the 4 A-3s there?
Stuff I like there C-131, C-123, S-2 somthing that looks like 2 A-5s.

Then there are tose aircraft on the ramp!

Tim

[Scott Rose]

It's definately and interesting area.

[TimAPNY]

check out

35 40'41.82 n 117 40 37.06

also it looks like NAS Fallon added a bunch of new a/c to the display sense I was there last (1996 FYI)!

39 25'12.85 N 118 42' 51.19 W

Tim

[Roger Cain]

Thats up near the private aircraft end of the field. A few years ago there was a PBY parked there. Could that be what your mistaking for an Albatross? There was also an F-100 there in that area during my visit.

[Boneyard]

How about the Airburst Range near Pueblo, CO.

There used to be a couple of beaten up F-105 and OV-1 there but recently these have appeared.....

38°27'0.04"N 104°53'27.22"W

and

38°26'53.08"N 104°53'42.89"W

I think that some F-105s are still extant here

38°26'39.47"N 104°52'43.94"W

[Scott Rose]

Any body have a list of the airframes on display at Fallon NAS and their IDs?

[Andy Marden]

Excuse the cut and paste from the 2025 edition of "USA Military Out of Service".

Pole-mounted at the main gate on Churchill Avenue are:
132261 AH/500 Douglas AD-4B VA-152 Apr00 Mar25
142100 01 Douglas A-4B Oct88 Mar25
156638 /207 Rockwell RA-5C RVAH-6 Apr99 Mar25
154420 00 LTV A-7B Strike Oct89 Mar25
158272 7H/02 Bell HH-1N May09 Mar25
There is a further collection of aircraft on base in and around the Air Power Park opposite the NSAWC. Some can be seen from outside by continuing south past the gate.
155025 NF/401 Douglas A-4F VA-94 Oct96 Apr23
155627 NE/500 Grumman A-6E VA-145 Oct95 Apr23
158810 AJ/502 Grumman EA-6B VAQ-134 Oct13 Apr23
156734 NK/300 LTV NA-7C VA-97 Sep98 Apr23
159496 NH/604 Grumman E-2C VAW-121 c/n A52-22 Apr97 Apr23
151014 NK/451 McD F-4N VF-154 151510 (was marked 155800) Apr97 Apr23
160796 AF/13 Northrop F-5E VFC-13 May07 Apr23
145449 AH/107 Vought DF-8L VF-111 Sep98 Apr23
159626 NE/201 Grumman F-14A VF-2 Oct94 Apr23
163576 Lockheed F-16N Jul95 Apr23
161708 NK/300 Boeing F/A-18A VFA-22 Aug96 Apr23
29371 FU-371 NA F-86F (was marked 24584) Apr98 Apr23
60-3593 313 Bell UH-1B camo c/s Oct98 Apr23
Sikorsky HH-60H due
160571 AG/700 Lockheed S-3B VS-31 Oct07 Apr23
3964 Mikoyan MiG-21bis ex Hungary, l/n 2024 Oct04 Apr23
(20+23) 353 red Mikoyan MiG-23ML Oct99 Apr23
15 blue Mikoyan MiG-29 ex Moldova, l/n 3128 Oct02 Apr23
(1614) 546 red WSK Lim-2 (MiG-15) Soviet c/s, ex Poland, c/n 1B016-14 Apr98 Apr23
(1319) 3020 red WSK Lim-5 (MiG-17) N Korean c/s, ex Poland, c/n 1C-1319 Apr98 Apr23
There is a possibility that the F-4 is in fact F-4B 148408, which used to be at Miramar. The F-86 is listed on the NNAM inventory as 1L402 and presumably came from the compound at China Lake. As usual, modex and squadron marks change regularly as different squadrons restore the aircraft. The Lim-2 is painted with false c/n 0615318.

[quemerford]

To add to the above, the Fallon F-86F identity is still unknown but it can at least be confirmed as an F model rather than a Sabre 5 as is often the case.

I suspect it's a composite of the various redundant USN airframes that survived the QF-86F programme. There were many such major airframe sections left at China Lake by the early '90s and its appearance at Fallon (initially in a Fleet Air Gunnery Unit FJ-4B colour scheme) coincides with the drawdown of the QF-86F programme.

For info, the "real" 52-4584 was one of those aircraft which passed to the RoCAF, so it's possible that the identity worn on the aircraft at various times is indeed correct; a number of former RoCAF F-86Fs did make it to China Lake, and most did not go into QF-86F conversion.