North American F-86L Sabre - Winnemucca, NV
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N 40° 59.396 W 117° 44.329
11T E 437854 N 4537902
North American F-86L Sabre s/n 53-0568
Waymark Code: WMDT3X
Location: Nevada, United States
Date Posted: 02/21/2012
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The North American Aviation F-86D Sabre (sometimes called the "Sabre Dog" or "Dog Sabre") was a transonic jet all-weather interceptor. Based on North American's F-86 Sabre day fighter, the F-86D had only 25 percent commonality with other Sabre variants, with a larger fuselage, larger afterburning engine, and a distinctive nose radome.
The YF-95 was a development of the F-86 Sabre, the first aircraft designed around the new 2.75in/70mm Mighty Mouse FFAR (Fin-Folding Aerial Rocket). Begun in March 1949, the unarmed prototype first flew on 22 December 1949 piloted by North American test pilot George Welch and was the first US Air Force (USAF) night-fighter design with only a single crewman and a single engine, a J47-GE-17 with afterburner rated at 5,425lbf/24kN static thrust. Gun armament was eliminated in favor of a retractable under-fuselage tray carrying 24 unguided Mk.4 rockets, then considered a more effective weapon against enemy bombers than a barrage of cannon fire. A second prototype was also built, but the YF-95 nomenclature was short-lived as the design was subsequently redesignated YF-86D.
The fuselage was wider and the airframe length increased to 40ft 4in, with clamshell canopy, enlarged tail surfaces, and AN/APG-36 all-weather radar fitted in a radome in the nose, above the intake. Later models of the F-86D received an uprated J-47-GE-33 engine rated at 5,550lbf/25kN (from the F-86D-45 production blocks onward). A total of 2,504 D-models were built.
On 18 November 1952, F-86D-20-NA, 51-2945, set a speed record of 698.505mph/1,124.135kph. Captain J Slade Nash flew over a 3km course at the Salton Sea in California at a height of only 125ft/38m. Another F-86D broke this world record on 16 July 1953, when Lt Col William F Barns, flying the first F-86D-35-NA, 51-6145, in the same path of the previous flight, achieved 715.697mph/1,151.803kph.
Source: Wikipedia
Type of Aircraft: (make/model): F-86L
Tail Number: (S/N): s/n 53-0568
Construction:: original aircraft
Location (park, airport, museum, etc.): Nevada Veterans Memorial Park, Winnemucca, NV
inside / outside: outside
Other Information::
Park is located on the west side of US95 about 1.4mi north of the US40/US95 junction in Winnemucca, NV
Access restrictions:
None
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Visit Instructions:
Photo of aircraft (required - will be interesting to see if the aircraft is ever repainted or progress if being restored)
Photo of serial number (required unless there is not one or it is a replica)
Photo(s) of any artwork on the aircraft (optional but interesting)
Tell why you are visiting this waymark along with any other interesting facts or personal experiences about the aircraft not already mentioned.