Name the planes - Pensacola NAS

[tinman0]

Looking on Google Earth for something and happened across Pensacola NAS storage yard. This is where retired planes are being kept for the US Naval Aviation Museum which is just to the south of this site. These are the birds that are waiting indoor space at the museum, or birds that are being kept as they are significant.

Anyway, here's the aerial shot, name the planes:



I've got the obvious Dakota, Hercules, 2 * Tomcat and Harrier.

[randomman]

Is that an F15 near the Tomcat on the bottom right?

Edit: Mig 21, 6 up from the bottom right?

Edited by randomman on Tuesday 31st March 16:24

[andy400]

E-2 Hawkeye, bottom middle.

[FourWheelDrift]

Grumann E-1 Tracer
A-3 Skywarrior
FA-18 Hornet
Few Orions
Looks like a Constellation 3rd row 2 down from the top on the right.
P2 Neptune

[tonyvid]

Eric, your thread has arrived!

[tinman0]

Is that a U2 on the second row near the top?

[andy400]

Intruder/Prowler, 4th up on the right?

[Nicholas Blair]

Corsair there too and PY5B Catalina ?

Edited by Nicholas Blair on Tuesday 31st March 16:32

[SlipStream77]

Looks like there are one or two DC3's.

The middle collection is interesting, top left could possibly be a Canberra?
Third up from the Hawkeye looks like a Vigilante.
Skyhawks in there too I think.

Nice collection.

ETA

To the right of the yellow aircraft (Catalina?) could be an F4, and next to that an F16?

I await correction.

Edited by SlipStream77 on Tuesday 31st March 16:47

[FourWheelDrift]

It's not a Hawkeye, it's an E-1 Tracer.

[tinman0]

4th row 4th plane i think is the GWB S3 Viking with its wings folded up. But the picture I've found of it puts it near a Tomcat. Figure its been moved.

[SlipStream77]

FourWheelDrift said:

It's not a Hawkeye, it's an E-1 Tracer.

Tracer then

[Eric Mc]

That isn't a Grumman E2 Hawkeye. It looks more like the older Grumman E1 Tracer (an AEW vesrion of the S2 Tracker).

The smaller aircraft are difficult to make out but I can certainly see a Lockheed P2 Neptune, a Lockheed WV-2 Constellation, a Lockheed P3 Orion, a Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon (it might be a Lodestar), a Douglas C-9 (military vesrion of the Douglas DC-9 airliner)), a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a Grumman TBM or TBF Avenger, a Grumman F9F Cougar, a Consolidated PBY Catalina and, best of all, a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer. The Privateer was a single finned development of the Consolidated PB4Y Liberator.



You might notice from the designations that familiar aircraft names are different if the correct US Navy designations are used. Up to 1962, the Navy and the Air Force used very different systems to denote the sometimes similar aircraft types used. For example, the C-121 Constealltion was called the WV-1/2 Constellation. The militarised DC-3 was called the C-47 in the USAF and was called the R4D in the Navy.

Edited by Eric Mc on Tuesday 31st March 17:05

[forza whites]

FourWheelDrift said:

Grumann E-1 Tracer
A-3 Skywarrior
FA-18 Hornet
Few Orions
Looks like a Constellation 3rd row 2 down from the top on the right.
P2 Neptune

Am impressed you spotted the Neptune!
There is an early U2 at the bottom middle low, an early B-47
and a Delta Dart...

[FourWheelDrift]

B-47? Do you mean the aircraft in the 3rd column half way down on the left? It looks more like the carrier borne A-3 Skywarrior to me, might be the B-66 Destroyer variant.

[Eric Mc]

Looks like an A-3 to me too.

The A-3 was US Navy. The B-66 was USAF.

[tinman0]

And just below that is an A5 Vigilante!

I cheated and looked this one up Google Earth.

[Matt..]

This somewhat spoils the game... http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LML...

[elster]

Edit it back as I was partially right.

So Harvard in the middle.

Edited by elster on Tuesday 31st March 18:07

Edited by elster on Tuesday 31st March 18:07

[Eric Mc]

elster said:

Is there a Harvard there in the middle?

Yes and no.

In US Navy service they were referred to as the SNJ. In the USAF (and the earlier USAAF) they were called the T-6 Texan. "Harvard" was the RAF name for the same aeroplane.