Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York

A very popular tourist attraction, USS Intrepid (CV-11) is moored beside Manhattan's Pier 86 on the River Hudson. It opened as a museum in 1982, but was removed for renovation between 2006 and 2008, which is why I didn't visit it on my first US tour in 2007.

Some very interesting aircraft here, including the Space Shuttle Enterprise, freshly arrived from Udvar-Hazy and, unlike the Concorde, safely under cover. USS Growler (SSG-577), one of the US Navy's first diesel-powered cruise missile submarines, is part of the museum, displaying one of the Regulus missiles which it was designed to carry.

Aircraft Reg'n Thumbs Notes
Aermacchi MB-339A MM54461 as 'MM54476 7' Italian AF Frecce Tricolori markings.
BAC Aerospatiale Concorde G-BOAD British Airways - the highest- time Concorde. On the pier beside the Intrepid.
Beech T-34A Mentor 53-4183 N34Z TT USAF
Bell AH-1J Sea Cobra 159218 704 US Navy
Bell UH-1A Iroquois 59-1621 US Army
Chance Vought SSM-N-8 Regulus 1   Submarine-launched nuclear-armed turbojet-powered cruise missile, operational from 1955-64.
Dassault Etendard IVM 21 as '60' French Navy
Douglas A-4B A4D-2 Skyhawk 142833 AK-512 US Navy
Douglas XBT2D-1 XAD-1 Skyraider 09102 109102 AJ-501 Through the restoration shop window. A prototype, and the world's oldest Skyraider. US Navy.
General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon 79-0403 NY USAF
Grumman (General Motors) TBM-3E Avenger 53842 X-2 Ex N60393. There's a replica of this at Patriots Point
Grumman A-6F A-6DSD Intruder II 162185 Grumman's Digital Systems Development aircraft before the F model was cancelled in 1988.
Grumman E-1B Tracer 147212 AU-773 US Navy
Grumman F-9J Cougar 141117 E-210 US Navy
Grumman F-11A Tiger 141884 5 US Navy - was Blue Angels 5 from 1961-63
Grumman YF-14B Super Tomcat 157986 7th pre-production F-14, used by Grumman for engine development.
Hawker Siddeley P.1127 (AV-8C) Harrier 159232 NM-601 US Marines
Lockheed A-12 60-6925 USAF
McDonnell F-3C Demon 133566 AG-100 US Navy
McDonnell Douglas F-4N Phantom II 150628 NK-101 US Navy
MiG-21PFM 4105 Ex Polish AF 4105 in North Vietnam AF markings.
North American F-1C Fury 135868 AF-203 US Navy
Northrop T-38N Talon NASA913 N913NA NASA's chase plane for Shuttle Enterprise's approach and landing test (ALT) flights, and an astronaut trainer.
Piasecki HUP-2 UH-25B Retreiver 128519 HU-69 US Navy
PZL-Mielec Lim-5 (MiG-17F) 0327 Ex Polish AF 327, now in North Vietnamese AF markings.
Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard 1429 US Coast Guard
Sikorsky HO4S-3G HH-19G (S-55B) Chickasaw 1308 UR-95 Ex US Coast Guard, N16861 (NR16861). Now in US Navy markings.
Vought F-8K Crusader 145550 AK-102 US Navy

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