@ Hill AFB, UT
May 2025
A F-100 Super Sabre on display at the Hill Aerospace Museum outside Salt Lake City. The first of the famed Century Series of fighters, the F-100 was the first U.S. Air Force fighter to exceed the speed of sound in level flight and was also used by the USAF Thunderbirds for 12 years. First flown in 1953, close to 2,300 would be delivered when production ended in 1959. This specific F-100A was delivered in 1954 then was transferred to Utah State University in 1961 for maintenance training before joining the Museum collection in 1981. The markings represents flight-test F-100s that were assigned to Hill Air Force Base in the late 1950s for weapons and munitions testing.
