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[Viking1066]

Croatia Air Force Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21bisD '133' March 2018

 

[Wurger]

the pic source: the net.

 

[Viking1066]

Panavia Tornado GR4A "ZG713"2 Sqn 2009 AIRF

 

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S-175 Danish Navy Westand WG 13 Lynx Mk 80 RAF Fairford 2012 PLAS

 

[Lucky13]

F-4E "Phantom"

 

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F-4E Phantom, 72-0142, MSN 4313....

 

[Viking1066]

'137820' was also used for bomb testing and is seen here at Edwards AFB with a giant bomb painted on the intake lip. A stylized Skyhawk was painted on the nose DOUG

 

[Viking1066]

McDonnell Douglas F-15J Eagle '137' 304 Hikotai Tsuiki November 2006 JETPHO

 

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McDonnell Douglas RF-4EJ Phamtom II '133' Teisatsu Ku 501 Hikotai Hyakuri 2010 JETPHO

 

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Grumman EA-6B Prowler (G-128) 'P-113 Portland October 2013 JETFIG

 

[Lucky13]

McDonnell F-4A Phantom II in the NASA Flight Research Center hangar undergoing maintenance inspection in preparation
for a flight. Notice the large inlet on the right side of the fuselage, the tandem cockpit, and the wing tip folded in an upward
position. The F-4A (Navy serial number 145313) arrived at the Flight Research Center (later redesignated the NASA Dryden
Flight Research Center) on December 3, 1965. It was damaged by an in-flight explosion on July 25, 1967. Able to land
despite the explosion, it was later returned to the Navy in 1965.

Source: NASA Photo / NASA photo

 

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[Lucky13]

Date:Saturday 18 January 1964
Time: Day
Type: McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II
Owner/operator:VMFA-513, USMC
Registration:148413
MSN:98
Fatalities:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Other fatalities:0
Aircraft damage:Destroyed
Location:NAS Key West, Boca Chica Key, 4 miles east of Key West, Florida - United States of America
Phase:En route
Nature:Military
Departure airport:NAS Key West, Florida (NQX/KNQX)
Destination airport:NAS Key West, Florida (NQX/KNQX)
Narrative: McDonnell Douglas F-4B Phantom II Bu. No 148413. Delivered by May 1962 to VF-102 as 'AF-101'. Transferred to VF-102 as AE-101 in 1963. Thence to US Marine Corps Squadron VMFA-513 by January 1964

Written off (destroyed) January 18, 1964, when Crashed into the sea off NAS Key West, Boca Chica Key, 4 miles east of Key West, Florida. According to the official history of US Marine Squadron VMFA-513 (see link #1):

"the crew were 1st Lt Frederick A Libkie (pilot) and WO (RIO) Kent D Ashmore (both Killed), They were engaging in low-altitude day intercept practice off Key West, Florida on 18 January 1964 when smoke was observed coming out of the engine. The aircraft settled down closer to the water, then pitched upward in a stall, and impacted upside down"

"Traverse City Marine Killed in Plane Crash -- Chief Warrant Officer Kent Darge Ashmore, 28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Ashmore, 3003 Pinegrove Avenue, Traverse City, died Saturday morning near the U.S. Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida, in the crash of a Phantom fighter which was returning from a training mission to Cuba. Ashmore, a radar operator, had been flying photographic missions over Cuba since January 4, 1953, his father said today. The pilot also died in the crash, which occured in water near the base.

According to a telegram received by the parents, an extensive search of the area is being conducted, but the bodies of the two men have not yet been recovered. The plane has been spotted, however, and will be raised. Mr. and Mrs. Ashmore received word of the tragedy Sunday morning via a telephone call from the Cherry Point Marine station where Ashmore had been assigned.

Ashmore was born in Traverse City on May 25, 1935, and attended school here until 1942 when the family moved to Frankfort. In 1947, the Ashmores moved to Phoenix, Arizona, and Kent graduated school there by correspondence since he had joined the Marines at the age of 17. He served three years in Jpan, during which time he received an aeronautical engineering degree by correspondence from the University of Maryland. In 1955 in Japan, he married the former Fukiko Somoto. Upon his return to the states he was assigned to the Cherry Point Marine station.

He leaves his wife, his parents, two brothers, Brian C. of Detroit and Bradley K. at home, his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Lucy Ashmore of Traverse city, and his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Calkins of Traverse City. The body, if recovered, will be returned here for services with an announcement of funeral arrangements to be made then".

Four U.S. Navy McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom II (BuNo 148393, 148398, 148404, 148413, at the front) of Fighter Squadron
VF-102 "Diamondbacks" in flight. VF-102 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 6 (CVG-6) aboard the aircraft carrier
USS Enterprise (CVAN-65). Date 19th of May 1962.

 

[Lucky13]

BuNo. 150413, Showtime 614. She was downed by AAA on the 20th of February 1967 during a strike on Thien Linh Dong
Railroad Siding. Air Force exchange officer Major Russell Goodman was killed and RIO Ensign Gary Thornton became a POW.

Photo by Dennis Lindsay.

 

[Viking1066]

Grumman EA-6B Prowler (G-128) '161349' VAQ-129 "Vikings" Whidbey Island NAS 2009 JETFIG

 

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Grumman EA-6B Prowler (G-128) '161349' VAQ-133 "Wizards" Nellis AFB 2007 JETFIG

 

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Grumman EA-6B Prowler (G-128) '161349' Whidbey Island NAS October 13 2009 JETFIG

 

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McDonnell Douglas RF-4EJ Phantom II '133' Hyakuri July 2010 JETPHO

 

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F9F-6P Cougar '134460' of VC-61 at Miramar 1955 BLLA

 

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Grumman EA-6B Prowler (G-128) '161352' In flight USMC October 2006 JETFIG