New York Air National Guard and Related Topics

General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF).

The satellite antenna and sensors of an NOAA-NASA flight demonstrator, 2005

The first MQ-9 arriving at Creech AFB, March 2007

MQ-1 UAV Flight Crew at Joint Base Balad (LSA Anaconda), Iraq, 7 August 2007

A British MQ-9A Reaper operating over Afghanistan in 2009

The Sky Guardian at Laguna Army Airfield for testing and certification, including a 48.2-hour endurance record and first FAA certification of an unmanned aircraft to fly in civilian air space.

In 2008, the New York Air National Guard 174th Attack Wing began the transition from F-16 piloted fighters to MQ-9A Reapers, becoming the first fighter unit to convert entirely to unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) use.

New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs

New York National Guardsmen walk out to an HH-60 Pave Hawk prior to a training mission, April 20, 2009

The New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs (NYS DMNA) is responsible for the state's New York Army National Guard, New York Air National Guard, New York Guard and the New York Naval Militia.

The prototype C-17, known as T-1, on a test flight in 2007

Boeing C-17 Globemaster III

Large military transport aircraft that was developed for the United States Air Force from the 1980s to the early 1990s by McDonnell Douglas.

The McDonnell Douglas YC-15 design was used as the basis for the C-17.

Paratroopers dropping from a C-17 during a training exercise in 2010

A Royal Australian Air Force C-17 landing at Kharkiv International Airport, showing its landing gear

USAF C-17s fly over the Blue Ridge Mountains in the eastern U.S. in December 2005

The U.S. Presidential Limousine is transported by a C-17 for long-distance trips.

A Royal Canadian Air Force C-17 (code 177703) departs the 2017 Royal International Air Tattoo, RAF Fairford, England

One of the Strategic Airlift Capability C-17s

Map of countries that operate the C-17 Globemaster III (highlighted in blue)

U.S. Air Force C-17 transporting a Dutch PzH 2000 self-propelled howitzer to Afghanistan, 2006

An RAF Chinook helicopter is loaded into a C-17

A C-17 in its aeromedical evacuation configuration

U.S. Army paratroopers seated in a C-17 as it maneuvers to a drop zone for a mass-attack airdrop

A C-17 evacuating 823 passengers out of Kabul on 15 August 2021

C-17 on the runway at Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, on 30 January 2009 after landing with landing gear retracted

In 2011, the New York Air National Guard's 105th Airlift Wing at Stewart Air National Guard Base transitioned from the C-5 to the C-17.

Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk

Twin-turboshaft engine helicopter in service with the United States Air Force.

An HH-60 about to refuel from a USAF HC-130P

Sri Lankan relief workers unload vegetables from an HH-60G during an Operation Unified Assistance mission

56th Rescue Squadron landing at the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon in 2008.

101st Rescue Squadron (New York Air National Guard)

An LC-130 "Skibird" assigned to the 139th Airlift Squadron, takes off

Lockheed LC-130

Ski-equipped United States Air Force variant of the C-130 Hercules used in the Arctic and Antarctic.

Ten are currently in service with the 109th Airlift Wing of the New York Air National Guard.

Lockheed C-130 Hercules

American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built originally by Lockheed .

C-130 Hercules flight deck. Aircraft displayed at the Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection

A Michigan Air National Guard C-130E dispatches its flares during a low-level training mission

A C-130 conducts a night flight mission over Yokota Air Base

USAF HC-130P refuels a HH-60G Pavehawk helicopter

USMC KC-130F Hercules performing takeoffs and landings aboard the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CV-59) in 1963. The aircraft is now displayed at the National Museum of Naval Aviation.

C-130 Hercules were used in the Battle of Kham Duc in 1968, when the North Vietnamese Army forced U.S.-led forces to abandon the Kham Duc Special Forces Camp.

U.S. Marines disembark from C-130 transports at Da Nang Air Base on 8 March 1965.

USMC C-130T Fat Albert performing a rocket-assisted takeoff (RATO)

C-130 Hercules performs a tactical landing on a dirt strip, North Carolina, U.S.

A Hercules parking at Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base

A U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 910th Airlift Wing, Youngstown-Warren Air Reserve Station, Ohio, drops oil-dispersing chemicals into the Gulf of Mexico, 9 May 2010.

U.S. military relief crews load supplies aboard a C-130 Hercules from the Illinois Air National Guard's 182nd Airlift Wing based in Peoria. The C-130 and crew have been assisting with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts since 31 Aug.

A C-130E fitted with a MAFFS-1 dropping fire retardant.

A U.S. JC-130 aircraft retrieving a reconnaissance satellite film capsule under parachute.

C-130s from the: U.S., Canada, Australia and Israel (foreground to background)

C-130 at the Royal Saudi Air Force Museum

A Hercules deploying flares, sometimes referred to as Angel Flares due to the characteristic pattern.

Cargo compartment of a Swedish Air Force C-130

The movie The Perfect Storm depicts a real life SAR mission involving aerial refueling of a New York Air National Guard HH-60G by a New York Air National Guard HC-130P.

A USAF HC-130P from the 211th Rescue Squadron

Lockheed HC-130

Extended-range, search and rescue /combat search and rescue (CSAR) version of the C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft, with two different versions operated by two separate services in the U.S. armed forces.

A USAF HC-130P refuels an HH-3E Jolly Green Giant, 1968.

USCG HC-130H on International Ice Patrol duties

USAF HC-130P-N refueling an HH-60G Pave Hawk

One of the 920th Rescue Wing's HC-130P Hercules "Combat King" aircraft refuels one of the wing's HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters.

106th Rescue Wing (106 RQW), 102d Rescue Squadron (102 RQS), New York Air National Guard, Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, New York – HC-130J

Eastern Air Defense Sector

United States Air Force unit of Air Combat Command (ACC), permanently assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron Convair F-106A-64-CO Delta Darts McGuire AFB, New Jersey October 1959

332d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-45-NA Sabre 52-3901, 4709th Air Defense Wing, McGuire AFB, New Jersey, 1956

Wisconsin ANG 115th Fighter Wing, Wisconsin Air National Guard over Wisconsin's capital city of Madison

F-16A 'Vipers' of the South Carolina ANG's 169th TFG, 1989

At EADS, this responsibility belongs to the New York Air National Guard's 224th Air Defense Group.

102nd Rescue Squadron

A 1st Aero Company Gallaudet C-2 in 1915

102nd Aero Squadron, Second Air Instructional Center, Tours Aerodrome, France in November 1917.

Members of the 102nd Observation Squadron stand in front of the unit's C-40 at Ontario Army Air Field, California

106th Bombardment Wing B-29 Superfortresses at March AFB, 1951

102nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-102s in September 1974

102nd Rescue Squadron HC-130 in the 2010 New York City blizzard

102nd HC-130 refueling a 101st Rescue Squadron HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter over Montauk Point, Long Island, New York.

2002 102nd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron Operation Northern Watch deployment at Diyarbakir AB, Turkey patch, 1990s

102nd Aerospace Rescue Recovery Squadron patch, 1975

102nd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron patch, 1973

102nd Bombardment Squadron (Light) patch, 1950

The 102nd Rescue Squadron (102 RQS) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing stationed at Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, Westhampton Beach, New York.

137th Airlift Squadron

137th AS C-5A Galaxy (s/n 70-0460) sits on the flightline before cargo is loaded on 5 September 2005 by Airmen with the 109th Aerial Port Squadron at the Albany International Airport. The cargo was bound for Gulfport, Mississippi, in support of Hurricane Katrina relief operations.

The last 105th Airlift Wing based C-5A Galaxy, tail number 0001, on take-off roll leaving its Hudson Valley home for the last time 19 September 2012.

The first C-17 assigned to the 105th Airlift Wing lands at the base on 18 July 2011.

Emblem of the World War II 504th Fighter Squadron

137th Fighter/Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem

137th Tactical Air Support Squadron emblem

The 137th Airlift Squadron (137 AS) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard 105th Airlift Wing located at Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York.