A retired McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II stands on display, its imposing side intakes and two-seat cockpit prominent in the bright desert sun.

D-21 Drone

A United States Air Force Lockheed C-140A JetStar sits on display in bright sunshine, showing its distinctive rear-mounted engine nacelles and swept tail.

A North American B-25J Mitchell stands on display in olive drab, its glazed nose and twin radial engines recalling the World War II medium bomber’s distinctive profile.

A historic Curtiss JN-4 Canuck biplane trainer on display in a museum, with yellow wings and a dark green fuselage.

A close museum view into the angular cockpit of a black Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, with its ejection-seat warning and canopy-lock markings visible.

A preserved U.S. Air Force’s version of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird fills the frame in a museum hangar, with another small aircraft suspended overhead.

A REPLICA Wright-era aircraft is displayed suspended among the historic aviation exhibits, with its fabric-covered wings and wire-braced structure on view.

A suspended early military biplane, viewed from below in a museum gallery, with its wooden propeller and British-style roundels visible.

A Boeing P-12E biplane fighter on display, wearing the U.S. Army Air Corps’ classic olive-drab and yellow scheme.

A U.S. Air Force–marked Cessna T-41 Mescalero sits parked beside a hangar in its blue-and-white historic scheme.

A weathered USAF-marked McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II displayed outdoors, with its distinctive twin-seat canopy, broad side intakes and underwing stores visible.

A weathered California-marked F-4 Phantom II rests on display beneath a clear blue sky, with other historic aircraft visible behind it.

A polished, four-engine Boeing B-29 Superfortress rests on display, its broad wing and wartime U.S. markings set against a clear sky.

A preserved U.S. Air Force Piasecki H-21B Workhorse, its distinctive tandem rotors and olive-drab fuselage displayed in bright sunlight.

A retired USAF HH-3E Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter on display at the March Field Air Museum.

A preserved Bell AH-1 Cobra seen from below, its long main rotor silhouetted against a clear blue sky.

A preserved U.S. Marine Corps UH-34D Seahorse, photographed from the tail with its main rotor and olive-drab markings visible.

A U.S. Army Bell UH-1 Iroquois stands on display beneath a clear blue sky, its large two-blade rotor framing a collection of military aircraft.

A front-on view of a preserved Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, its glazed nose and four radial engines prominent against a clear sky.