North American F-100 Super Sabre

F-100F-1-NA SUPER SABRE (56-3730)

20th Tactical Fighter Wing, 55th Tactical Fighter Squadron ‘Fighting Fifty Fifth’, 1960. This aircraft served with a multitude of units before it was sent to MASDC on September 14, 1977. Since 2006 it has been on display at the USAF Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

F-100D-90-NA SUPER SABRE (56-3262)

48th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 492nd Tactical Fighter Squadron ‘Bolars’, 1959. Prior to the Vietnam war, the USAF was not shy about adding a bit of colour to its aircraft. The 48th TFW applied some particular ashy paint schemes to its aircraft when participating in a weapons meet at Nellis AFB in 1959. The 492nd, 493rd and 494th FTS all had at least one aircraft painted like this in the squadron’s respective trim colours (blue, yellow and red) and the CO aircraft that sported all three colours. Even for this era it was a very colourful aircraft.

F-100D-90-NA SUPER SABRE (56-3264) 

405th Tactical Fighter Wing, 510th Tactical Fighter Squadron ‘Buzzards’, 1961. 56-3264 was part of a detachment deployed at Thailand’s Don Muang Airport in the spring of 1961. The aircraft would remain in SEA throughout the 60s with the 405th. On August 22, 1967, the aircraft was hit by AAA re. The pilot managed to y the crippled F-100 out over the South China Sea and eject, before being rescued by a US Army helicopter.