Aerial of a five ship echelon formation made up of US Navy (USN) aircraft: (lead) F-16N Fighting Falcon, F-5E Tiger, A-4F Skyhawk, TA-4J Skyhawk, and a T-2C Buckeye. All five aircraft are with Fighter Squadron 126 (VF-126), Bandits, at Naval Air Station Miramar, California

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description

Summary

The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Base: San Diego

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PHC Dupree, USN

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Jets!

Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

Collection - Jets!
Fighter planes and military aircrafts.

date_range

Date

14/09/1987

place

Location

32.87446, -117.13787

Google Map of 32.87446389999999, -117.1378713

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Source

The U.S. National Archives

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Link

https://catalog.archives.gov/

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