There are 26 Korean War-era (1950 - 1953) Airplanes in the Military Factory.
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Boeing B-47 Stratojet The swept-wing B-47 produced by Boeing was a milestone in bomber design in many ways. The system pioneered the traditional bomber layout found on many of todays systems and offered up capabilities unheard of before then. As a...
Boeing B-50 Superfortress Though looking every bit the identical twin of the World War Two-era B-29 Superfortress (also produced by Boeing), the B-50 incorporated enough new elements to deem it an all new aircraft - retaining just 25 percent of the B-...
Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter A post-war design, Boeing developed the C-97 as the Model 367 - a military transport based on the success of the design of the B-29 Superfortress.
The Model 777 Stratocruiser was the civilian transport version of the Model...
de Havilland D.H.100 Vampire The de Havilland-produced jet fighter holds two key distinctions in the history of aviation. Firstly, the system was the first jet-powered aircraft to successfully land on a movie aircraft carrier (the Sea Vampire) and second...
Douglas A-1 Skyraider The mammoth Skyraider series would have been a major player in the Second World War if it were designed and produced a few years earlier than it had. Regardless, the system would prove itself quite a capable close-support air...
Douglas B-26K Counter Invader / A-26A Nimrod The B-26K Counter Invader was based on a highly modified World War Two-era A-26 Invader aircraft. What set the Counter Invader apart from it's predecessor was that the Counter Invader was featured without any turret systems, ...
Douglas C-124 Globemaster II With the close of World War 2 and the accompanying Berlin Airlift, the United States military saw a need to replace its aged C-74 "Globemaster I" systems with a newer and more capable platform. The C-124 was put forth as a pr...
Douglas F3D / F-10 Skyknight The Douglas F3D series of aircraft holds several distinctions in the world of aviation history and in the circle of United States military aviation. To start off, the F3D became the world's first jet-powered carrier-based nig...
Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar Fairchild Corporation produced a winner in the post-war world with the introduction of the C-119 "Flying Boxcar". The Boxcar was derived from the C-82 "Packet" transport - looking ever more like the identical to the final C-1...
Grumman F7F Tigercat The powerful F7F Tigercat continued the cat-named series of fighters by the Grumman company. The F7F was developed during the Second World War but would be cleared for service to late to take part in that conflict, opening th...
Grumman F9F Cougar The F9F Cougar was a direct and further development of the F9F Panther (detailed elsewhere on this site. The similarities between the two were limited to just the forward fuselage of the Panther being used in the Cougar desig...
Grumman F9F Panther The Grumman F9F Panther series saw extensive combat in the Korean War for the United States Navy, accounting for over 78,000 combat sorties. The system was primarily utilized as a close-support strike aircraft but could hold ...
Grumman HU-16 Albatross The Grumman HU-16 Albatross platform made appearances all across the globe with United States military forces, rescuing downed US airmen in need. The system was an amphibious platform, allowing for operation from land and / o...
Ilyushin IL-10 The Ilyushin IL-10 was a follow-up design to the classic IL-2 "Shturmovik", an armored ground attack aircraft that won the air war for the Soviets in the East Front of World War 2. Visually similar to its predecessor, the new...
Lavochkin La-9 (Fritz) The Lavochkin La-9 series (codename “Fritz” by NATO) was a direct development of the Lavochkin La-126 prototype. In essence, the La-9 represented the La-7 but with all-metal construction as opposed to wood used in the with mo...
Lockheed F-80 / P-80 Shooting Star The Shooting Star was a Lockheed creation initially started as early as 1941. As with other jet designs of this type, many early models suffered from the lack of capable powerplants and thus the Shooting Star program was shel...
Lockheed F-94 Starfire The F-94 (nicknamed "Starfire" in the "C" model only) was developed from the successful twin-seat Lockheed trainer aircraft known as the T-33 Shooting Star, which in itself was based on the single-seat P-80 / F-80 Shooting St...
Lockheed P2V Neptune The P2V Neptune series of aircraft was one of the more successful post-war designs for America, with service that spanned decades for a handful of American-friendly countries. The system was designed by Lockheed Corporation f...
McDonnell F2H Banshee The twin-engine, single-seat F2H Banshee was based on the successes that the McDonnell company found with the F1H Phantom series of jet aircraft. Even appearing similar to the aforementioned craft, the F2H Banshee was in fact...
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (Fagot) The MiG-15 was the successful result of captured German research into turbojet and swept wing fighter designs at the end of World War Two. Couple that with the fact that the Soviet Union produced an illegal copy of the succes...
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (Fresco) / Chengdu J-5 As impressive as the later versions of the MiG-15 fighter were (detailed elsewhere on this site), the MiG-17 "Fresco" was a vastly improved development based on lessons learned in the formers design. With the MiG-15 represent...
North American B-45 Tornado Development of the XB-45 began in 1944 and continued into 1945, representing the later years of the Second World War. With reports that Germany had already succeeded in development of production-quality jet bomber designs, th...
North American F-82 / P-82 Twin Mustang The F-82 Twin Mustang was actually designed with the very real purpose of providing the United States Air Force with a potent long-range fighter escort while allowing a fatigued pilot some rest while a copilot / navigator too...
North American F-86 Sabre The highly-regarded F-86 Sabre was North American Aviations first attempt at a jet fighter design. Already on the drawing board as early as 1944, everything changed when Allied forces uncovered research that the Germans were ...
Republic F-84 Thunderjet / Thunderstreak / Thunderflash The F-84 series saw extensive combat action in the Korean War, though its development actually stemmed more from the years after the end of the Second World War. The F-84 became the United States Air Force's first operational...
Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw The Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw was an excellent multipurpose transport helicopter that saw use in various roles on a global scale. The system proved to be a tremendous replacement for the US Army H-5 Dragonfly series and went on...
The Korean War saw dogfighting taken to a whole new level. Dogfighting now consisted of pure speed and agility as Soviet-built MiGs faced off against American Sabres and Shooting Stars. Technology and engineers captured from Germany in the Second World War allowed the superpowers to finalize their own jet designs, arming them with potent cannon and machine gun combinations. This listing represents aircraft from 1946 through the Korean War years of 1950 through 1953. The Korean War provided a fertile battleground for the first piston-versus-jet fighter and jet-versus-jet fighter encounters. Swept-back wing designs were coming into play while the straight-wing designs of the First and Second World Wars were being shelved. Aircraft during the Korean War would play a key part in maintaining momentum and protecting the front while United Nations forces led by the United States of America pushed North Korean forces back across the 48th Parallel. In the end, the war would be seen as a "draw" by most, considering nothing was ultimately gained but very little was lost in the way of ground. Often held up in America as the "Forgotten War", the Korean War did advance military aviation design, engineering and production and evolved the early turbojets substantially. This listing represents the aircraft taking part in the Korean War that lasted from 1950 until 1953.
