Aircraft from 1950 - 1959
The jet was perfected throughout the decade, providing the first-ever jet-versus-jet duel over the skies of Korea.
There are a total of 99 Aircraft from 1950 to 1959 in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1957
The Alouette II helicopter series is billed as a multi-role, light rotary-wing platform charged with a myriad of duties in bo...
1957
The Antonov An-12 "Cub" was a product of requirement by the Soviet Union during the Cold War years. With more land area to de...
1952
The Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck is an often overlooked indigenous Canadian aircraft design that performed admirably well throug...
1958
The Avro CF-105 "Arrow" appeared at a time when the Soviet Union was consistently developing higher-flying and longer range b...
1951
The Avro Shackleton was derived from the Avro Lincoln bomber (the Lincoln itself designed from the Avro Lancaster), a four-en...
1956
The Avro Vulcan formed the second point on the triangle in the British "V-Bombers" collection - a series of three high-altitu...
1959
Along the same lines as the prototype North American XB-70 Valkyrie strategic bomber of the United States Air Force, the BAC ...
1953
The T-34 Mentor series served the United States Air Force and United States Navy well in training generations of aviators in ...
1959
The UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" became an important part of American military actions beginning in 1960 and expanding throughout the...
1951
The X-5 was an experimental single-seat, single-engine, jet-powered fighter design prototype produced by the Bell Aircraft co...
1955
The 707 model series for The Boeing Company proved to be the catalyst for their commercial market successes to come. The 707 ...
1951
The swept-wing B-47 Stratojet produced by Boeing was a milestone in American bomber design in several ways. The system pionee...
1955
The B-52 has been the preeminent American heavy bomber of the last 54 years. The massive aircraft served throughout the heigh...
1956
The KC-135 Stratotanker proved to be a monumental product for the Boeing corporation in more ways than one, firstly solidifyi...
1959
The Breguet Br.1050 "Alize" (meaning "tradewind") was a French production aircraft suitable for carrier-based anti-submarine ...
1951
America's first operational jet-powered fighter became the P-80 Shooting Star of World War 2. The type was a single-engine, s...
1956
The Convair F-102 "Delta Dagger" was a product of the ensuing Cold War years following the close of World War 2 in which jet ...
1959
The F-106 "Delta Dart" holds origins in the original United States Air Force requirement that produced the capable F-102 "Del...
1958
The base Dassault-produced Etendard (meaning "Standard") was a private venture that was initially greeted without much fervor...
1952
The Dassault MD.450 "Ouragan" (meaning "Hurricane") became France's first home-grown operational, jet-powered, military comba...
1956
Though now outclassed by the latest in Next Generation aircraft, the Mirage III - for a time - was the best European fighter ...
1955
The Dassault-produced Mystere series of turbojet aircraft appeared just when the French nation was in the rebuilding stages f...
1959
The Caribou series proved to be such an effective battlefield transport aircraft that more than a few were pressed into servi...
1958
In the 1950's, the de Havilland production of the Sea Vixen became the Royal Navy's first swept wing fighter design and Brita...
1956
The A-4 Skyhawk (nicknamed "Heinemann's Hot Rod" and the "Scooter") came about as a private venture when the Douglas corporat...
1956
The Douglas-produced B-66 Destroyer was a light bomber designed by Ed Heinemann to replace the aging A-26 Invader in service ...
1950
With the close of World War 2 and the accompanying Berlin Airlift, the United States military saw a need to replace its aged ...
1951
The Douglas Skyknight was a dedicated carrier-based night fighter serving with the United States Navy (USN) and Marine Corps ...
1956
The F4D Skyray (affectionately nicknamed the "Ford" for its "F", "Four" and "D" used in the designation) stemmed from a 1947 ...
1951
The British-produced Canberra was originally conceived of as a high-altitude, high-level nuclear-capable medium bomber. The f...
1952
The C-123 Provider was a twin engine military transport aircraft utilized to good effect in the Vietnam War. Design of the ai...
1953
The Fairey Gannet was a dedicated anti-submarine platform primarily serving the Fleet Air Arm of the British Royal Navy durin...
1958
The Fiat Aeritalia G.91 was an Italian Cold War-era, single-seat, jet-powered fighter design that saw an extended period of s...
1959
The Folland Gnat was a swept-wing, jet-powered fighter of British origins appearing in the middle of the 1950's. Designed as ...
1956
It becomes much too easy to lose track of French military prowess following World War 2 but the Fouga Magister was a product ...
1956
The Gloster Javelin was the first twin-engine delta-wing jet fighter design to take up service with any one air force. The sy...
1952
The C-1 Trader was a carrier-based transport (Carrier-Onboard-Delivery - COD) aircraft utilized by the United States Navy fro...
1957
The Grumman-produced F11F Tiger was designed at about the time the Grumman Cougar was already close to production. The progra...
1952
The F9F Cougar was a direct and further development of the F9F Panther (detailed elsewhere on this site. The similarities bet...
1950
The Grumman F9F Panther series saw extensive combat in the Korean War for the United States Navy, accounting for over 78,000 ...
1959
Development of the OV-1 Mohawk platform stemmed from a joint requirement fielded by both the United States Army and the Unite...
1954
The Grumman S-2 Tracker was designed, developed and produced for the United States Navy at a time when carriers had taken the...
1957
The Handley Page Victor formed the last part of the RAF's "V-Bomber" triangle also consisting of the Vickers Valliant and the...
1953
The Hawker Sea Hawk (also Armstrong Whitworth Sea Hawk) was a no-nonsense navy fighter aircraft designed in the latter years ...
1956
The Hawker Hunter was the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy jet fighter of choice for decades since its inception, becoming the ...
1958
Charles Kaman (1919 - 2011), an aeronautical engineering student, served as an employee to another fabled helicopter develope...
1956
The arrival of the Lockheed-produced C-130 Hercules series of transport lay down the foundation of transport design for decad...
1958
The Lockheed F-104 was in many ways an engineering marvel whose legacy suffered terribly due to several internal and external...
1950
The F-94 (nicknamed "Starfire" in the "C" model only) was developed from the successful twin-seat Lockheed trainer aircraft k...
1955
The U-2 spyplane was a pivotal player during the peak years of the Cold War between the United States of America and the Sovi...
1957
The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was affectionately called the "One-oh-Wonder" and known moreso early on for its many record-setti...
1953
The F3H Demon series of aircraft produced by McDonnell Aircraft was a further development of the company's expertise with car...
1952
As impressive as the later versions of the MiG-15 fighter were (detailed elsewhere on this site), the MiG-17 "Fresco" was a v...
1955
The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 "Farmer" was an entirely new aircraft design though it shared many external similarities with the...
1959
The MiG-21 was undoubtedly the most successful Cold War fighter in terms of reach, operating in over 50 air forces around the...
1953
The broad-reaching Mil Mi-4 series of helicopter (known to NATO as "Hound") first appeared in 1952 and was designed within th...
1955
The Myasishchev M-4 (NATO codename of "Bison") was developed to a Soviet Navy requirement for a jet-powered, long-range marit...
1959
The M-50 and M-52 bombers were two prototype intercontinental supersonic strategic bombers proposed by the Soviet firm of Mya...
1959
The North American (now Boeing) T-2 Buckeye was responsible for the training of thousands of American naval aviators from 195...
1954
The North American F-100 Super Sabre was developed as the successor to the F-86 Sabre, another North American product. The F-...
1957
The YF-107 "Ultra Sabre" prototype represented the final foray into military aviation for the North American Aircraft Corpora...
1950
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion delivered a decade of service to the United States Air Force, charged with the critical defense of...
1958
The F-105 Thunderchief was a Cold War product of the Republic Aviation Corporation and became the company's last production a...
1955
The Republic XF-84H was an experimental airframe based on the jet-powered, single-seat Republic F-84F Thunderstreak fighter. ...
1953
The Ryan X-13 "Vertijet" was an experimental program of the 1950s funded by the United States Air Force to help test the vali...
1955
By the late 1940s, the Swedish Air Force (or "Flygvapnet") was reviewing options in an effort to replace its aging series of ...
1950
The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw was an excellent multipurpose transport helicopter that saw use in various roles on a global scal...
1954
The H-34 Choctaw was a multi-purpose, radial-powered utility helicopter produced by Sikorsky in the United States. It was dev...
1953
These limited-production aircraft served with little distinction in French hands but were better served as night fighters and...
1959
The Sukhoi Su-7 (NATO codename of "Fitter-A") was a single-seat, single engine jet-powered fighter in service with the Soviet...
1959
During the Korean War (1950-1953), the age of the jet-powered fighter had arrived. Soviet MiG-15s regularly tangled with Amer...
1951
The Supermarine Attacker was a solid, if unspectacular, aircraft that failed to make much of a splash as a jet fighter in the...
1957
The Supermarine Scimitar was an oft-forgotten carrier-based, jet-powered, single-seat fighter for the British Fleet Air Arm. ...
1954
The Supermarine Swift series of aircraft was initially designed to supplant the aging and outclassed post-World War Two Glost...
1957
The Tupolev Tu-142 "Bear" aircraft was a further development of the massive and successful Tu-95 Bear design popularized by i...
1954
The Tupolev Tu-16 (codenamed "Badger" by NATO) owed its success story to the Cold War and its own versatility. Throughout its...
1957
The Tupolev Tu-95 "Bear" was the Soviet symbol of Cold War prowess, consistently breaking across into American and Canadian a...
1956
Following World War 2, the aviation world was moving along at breakneck speeds in development of advanced jet-powered designs...
1955
The Valiant was the beginning design in the series of 'V' strategic bombers for the RAF. The Valiant originated as a response...
1957
The Vought-produced F-8 Crusader was a direct response to a Navy need for a supersonic carrier-based fighter platform. Utiliz...
1958
Into the 1960s, communist China held a close working military and political relationship with the Soviet Union. As such, ther...
1955
The Yak-25 (NATO codename of "Flashlight") was yet another jet fighter design introduced by the Soviets during the early deca...
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