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Grumman C-1A Trader 146030 Grumman C-1A Traders are launched from the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CVS-9) during the Apollo 7 recovery mission, 22 October 1968. Essex, with assigned Carrier Anti-Submarine Air Group 54 (CVSG-54), was deployed to the Atlantic Ocean in support of the Apollo-programme in October 1968.

E-1B Tracer BuNo 147211 VAW-111 ‘Hunters’. Unit shore code RR. Side number 011. From USS Hornet January 1970. www.forgottenprops.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/E-1B.html Grumman WF-2 (E-1B) Tracer BuNo 147211 …………………………………….. 1976-77: RVAW-110 as NM-011. June 25,1977: Put into storage at Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) Arizona. Assigned five digit MASDC Process Control Number (PCN): 1E057. May 29, 1978: Struck off charge. Nov. 9, 1981: Sold off as surplus to Consolidated Aero Corp which became United Aeronautical Corporation, Tucson, AZ. Last noted Aug 2002. Belatedly salvaged.

A Douglas - Long Beach-built B-17G (B-17G-50-DL) Flying Fortress, USAAF Ser. No. 44-6430 (c/n 22653). As per the Joe Baugher site: www.joebaugher.com/usaf_serials/1944_1.html

Failed to return from a mission to railway marshalling yards at Maribor, Slovenia, Yugoslavia 7Nov44 (3KIA:4POW:3EVD). The plane was struck by flak just as it started the bomb run. No.1 engine received a direct hit knocking off the propeller. The engine was burning from the fore part with flames extending the length of the nacelle. Shortly after, the plane started to veer back and in towards the rear element which caused considerable confusion. Then, the pilot seemed to start a very slow turn to the right, losing considerable altitude. The fire intensity was growing. The crew began to bail out as the plane exploded and crashed Slovenske Konjice, Slovenia, Yugoslavia