DEL LAUGHERY

F-4C, serial 63-7711, as she appeared during April 2013. She would survive only two-and-a-half more years before she was hauled off and scrapped at a local yard.

Rows of F-16s sit in area 13 during April, 2006. These aircraft were to be the first converted to QF configuration once the supply of F-4s was exhausted.

F/A-18C, BuNo 163738, as seen during November, 2014. This aircraft had been stored in a tan bag, which has now been removed for inspection. Note the foam protective covers on all of the aircraft's edges.

F-15C, serial 81-0026, seen in 2015 approximately five years after her last flight into storage.

April, 2016 image of F-4E, serial 68-0538, resting in the boneyard among her Phantom II sisters. She arrived for storage during October, 1997, and as of the date of this post, she remains in storage. You can see this aircraft refueling from KC-135 here: https://www.del-laughery.com/a2a

Credited with a MiG-21 kill on 6 May 72 using an AIM-9 missile, F-4S, BuNo 157249, rests in the Arizona sun during November, 2014. She would escape the scrapper and instead be donated to the Flying Leatherneck Museum in San Diego.

F-16C, serial 85-1416, would return to service configured as a QF-16 during February, 2020, after more than eleven years in storage. She's pictured here during 2015.

Ex-Calspan Bicycle Works) F-16C, serial 85-1452, looking quite forlorn given her wingless and canopy-less situation. This photo is from November, 2015. She had arrived a little more than five years before, and remains there as of the date of this post.

F/A-18C, BuNo 163777, as she appeared during late 2014.

On the left is F-16B, serial 79-0418. On the right is F-16B, serial 82-1036. Both have seen better days. Also visible in the middle is the tail of F-16B, serial 80-0625.

F-16A, serial 82-0961, sits near a row of T-38s in this November, 2015, shot.

Florida ANG F-15C, serial 78-0491, as seen in storage during late 2015, next to F-15C, serial 84-0012, an operational test and evaluation aircraft out of Eglin AFB, FL.