The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star was the first jet fighter used operationally by the United States Army Air Forces,and saw extensive combat in Korea with the United States Air Force as the F-80.
The U.S. Navy's SNJ Texan was also designated as the AT-6 by the USAAC and Harvard by the British Commonwealth Air Forces--as best known outside of the United States. It remains a popular warbird aircraft. It is now available in a desktop model aircraft.
The Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird“ was an advanced, long range, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft and is now made available as a desktop model aircraft by Mastercraft.
The North American T-2 Buckeye was the United States Navy's intermediate training aircraft, intended to introduce Student Naval Aviators to jets. It entered initial service in 1959, and was replaced by the T-45 Goshawk in 2008.
The Slingsby T67 Firefly, originally produced as the Fournier RF-6, is a two-seat aerobatic training aircraft, built by Slingsby Aviation in Kirkbymoorside, Yorkshire, England.
The Fieseler Fi 103, better known as the V-1 'Buzz Bomb', (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1, retaliation weapon), also colloquially known in Britain as the 'Doodlebug', was an early pulse-jet-powered example of what would later be called a cruise missile.
The EC-121 Warning Star entered service with the US Navy in early 1953 with the designation WV-2 and were immediately used to provide radar coverage over the eastern ocean approaches to the USA - an Atlantic barrier.
The McDonnell Douglas X-36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft was a subscale prototype jet designed to fly without the traditional tail surfaces used on most aircraft.
The X-38 Crew Return Vehicle (CRV) was a prototype for a wingless lifting body reentry vehicle that was to be used as a Crew Return Vehicle for the International Space Station (ISS). The X-38 was developed to the point of a drop test vehicle before its development was cancelled in 2002 due to budget cuts.
The Bell P-59 Airacomet was the first American jet fighter aircraft, designed and built during World War II. The United States Army Air Forces was not impressed by its performance and cancelled the contract when fewer than half of the aircraft ordered had been produced. Although no P-59s went into combat, it paved the way for another design generation of U.S. turbojet-powered aircraft and was the first turbojet fighter to have its turbojet engine and inlet nacelles integrated within the main fuselage.
The Aichi D3A (??99?????? Aichi-ky?-ky?-shiki-kanj?-bakugeki-ki?), Allied reporting name 'Val')[2] was a World War II carrier-borne dive bomber of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN).
The Alenia C-27J Spartan is a medium-sized military transport aircraft with the engines and systems of the Lockheed Martin C-130J Super Hercules is now made available in a desktop model by Mastercraft.
The Messerschmitt Bf 109, often called Me 109, was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser during the early to mid 1930s.
The Dornier Do 17, sometimes referred to as the Fliegender Bleistift (German: “flying pencil“), was a World War II German light bomber produced by Claudius Dornier's company, Dornier Flugzeugwerke.
The General Dynamics F-16XL is a derivative of the F-16 Fighting Falcon, with a cranked-arrow delta wing. It was entered in the United States Air Force's (USAF) Enhanced Tactical Fighter (ETF) competition but lost to the F-15E Strike Eagle. Several years after the prototypes were shelved, they were turned over to NASA for aeronautical research.
he de Havilland DH.103 Hornet was a piston engine fighter that further exploited the wooden construction techniques pioneered by de Havilland's classic Mosquito.
The Dassault Mirage 2000 is a French multirole, single-engine fourth-generation jet fighter manufactured by Dassault Aviation. It was designed as a lightweight fighter based on the Mirage III in the late 1970s for the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air).
The Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet is a light attack jet and advanced trainer aircraft co-manufactured by Dornier of Germany and Dassault-Breguet of France.