There is a good website that catalogs collections of static displays, museum and non museum. It includes some user comments from folks who have visited them.

Aviation Museum Locator

Also, I can fully recommend the Hurlburt displays, they were repainting them when I was taking a course there several years back.

 

How could I forget my last duty station - NAS Lemoore!
F/A-18 actually guarding the gate of course.
A small collection by the HQ building to include an A-1, A-4, and A-7.

USMCFLYR

 

You know that you're an old fart...

When the hottest thing you ever flew is up on a pedestal in front of base ops.

Joe

 

I heard a great story about a “gate guard” A-4 from a Captain I flew with a while back.

He was one of two marines on a cross-country and brings his 2-ship of A-4s to a military field for a gas-n-go.

They get ready to go and on departure, one of them can’t get the nose gear up. They return and land, hoping the transient alert guys might be able to fix it. When they inspect the nose wheel well and compare it with the good jet, it’s obvious which “widget” is broken.

TA is no help other than to say, “I don’t know a thing about A-4s. The only other one I’ve seen is on a stick out by the main gate.”

The light bulb comes on….. They borrow some tools, take the widget off the bad jet and head out to the main gate. They make the swap with the static display and return to their jets. They complete the repair (with the horrified TA guys looking on) and were able to launch shortly after that.

 

MCAS New River finally got a phrog about a year-and-a-half ago to complement the CH-53(A?) and UH-34.

 

Joint field gate guard - Ellington Field, Houston.
An old -707, original Vomit Comet.
I posted a picture of it sometime ago when there was a little contest for the largest aircraft on a stick photo contest. There is also a F-84 across the street.

USMCFLYR

 

USMC:

The biggest jet on a stick easily is a tie between Langley AFB and the Zoo (Air Force Academy).

Both of them have B-52s on very short sticks.

 

I've flown the OV-10 at Hurlburt.

What did joepilot just say? Something about airplanes you've flown being mounted on sticks.....

 

I think you posted in that old thread. Was that the eventual winner?

USMCFLYR

 

Yeah, I remember that now. I guess I'm at that age where I start to repeat my old stories...

I guess I'm at that age where I start to repeat my old stories.