An Airbus A350-900 banks across a clear blue sky, seen from below with its swept wings and upturned tips silhouetted in the sunlight.

A distant twin-engine passenger jet crosses a clear blue sky, framed by palm trees.

Dassault Falcon 7X N74JK parked among several business jets at an airfield, with fire-scorched ground in the foreground.

A Beechcraft Baron twin-piston aircraft parked outside an aviation hangar, with a protective cover draped over its wing and center section.

A Cessna Citation II sits among other parked aircraft on a sunlit apron.

A twin-engine business jet approaches with its landing gear extended beneath a sky crossed by contrails.

A Gulfstream G550 approaches with its landing gear extended, silhouetted beneath streaks of high-altitude cloud.

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.