McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle | Baz Fine Art Aircraft Prints
Designed with the lessons of the Vietnam air war in mind, the eagle joined the f-14 to user in the 4th generation of fighters. 104 aerial victories to 0 losses, simply the most dominant air superiority plane of it's generation.
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The 159 FS “Boxin’ Gators” provide air superiority and intercept defense of the continental US. Their Eagles are based in Northern Florida flying out of Jacksonville’s International Airport. The 125 FW has flow F-15’s since 1995 and swapped their F-15A’s for F-15C’s in 2006. They maintain an alert presence both at their home station as well as in Southern Florida at Homestead Air Reserve Base.
86-0148 displays the units blue lightning bolt flash on the tail as well as the blue “Florida” and “125 FW” stripes. She is shown ready for a Tactical Intercept sortie carrying a single AN/AAQ-33 Sniper 0Advanced Targeting Pod on station 5 as well as a pair of captive carry CATM-120’s AMRAAM’s on the outboard of station’s 2 and 8, plus a captive carry CATM-9X on station 2B and a TACTS data pod on station 8A.
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MiG killer... on 27 January 1991, flying under the OPEC 02 callsign, Ben “Coma” Powell was flying F-15C 84-0027 scored a double AIM-7M kill in OPERATION DESERT STORM. She is depicted here ready for a DESERT STORM sortie with the standard “triple bubble” three 600 gallon external tank load out.
For her weapon load, 027 is carries 4 x AIM-7M semi-active radar missiles, 4 x AIM-9M heat seeking missiles, a full load of 20mm HEI ammo, and chaff and flare expendables.
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One of the original Eagle squadrons, the 44 FS Vampires have flow over the Pacific since 1941. Winner's of the 2012 Raytheon Trophy for the USAF's best Air-to-Air squadron, the print shows one of their jets configured for a typical Combat Air Patrol mission with 6 x AIM-120 active radar missiles, 2 x AIM-9X short range infrared missiles, an AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, and two 600 gallon drop tanks under the wings.
86-0110 proudly carried the Night Train nose art with the cigar smoking, 6-shooter wielding cowboy skull. She’s shown with the art almost finished and wears the wear and tear of a high time flyer deployed to OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE.
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Bad Dog is a F-15C Eagle flow by the 159th FW’s Bayou Militia. Formally known as the Coonass Militia, then the Cajun Militia, the 159th operates out of Joint Reserve Base New Orleans for the Louisiana Air National Guard.
Along with the other Eagles, 509 remains one of the world’s premier air-superiority fighters having been updated over the years since her introduction nearly 40 years ago. Updated weapons, radar, computers, countermeasures, helmet mounted display system, and cockpit display keep the “Golden Eagles” at the leading edge of fighter performance.
Bad Dog is depicted with a “6x2” load out of six AIM-120 active radar missiles on her fuselage stations and two on her wing pylon outboard stations, plus two AIM-9X infrared missiles on her pylon inboard stations. She additionally carries an AN?AAQ-33 Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod on her centerline station and a pair of 600 gallon external wing tanks. Filling out her loadout are a full load of 20mm HEI ammunition and self-protection expendables.
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Near Crater Lake in southern Oregon, the 173 FW's 114 FS performs the duties of training new Active Duty and Air Nation Guard pilots as well as Air Defense Alert. After completing their transition sorties, leering the basics of flying the F-15, the first "tactical" sortie a student flies is offensive Basic Fighter Maneuvering... know everywhere as BFM-1.
79-0046 is a contemporary jet with the latest Aggressor Gray/Ocean Gray "dark" paint scheme in the universal BFM-1 configuration with everything cleaned off except a single AIM-9X CATM captive carry training round.
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Mig killer... Part II.
A quarter century later, 84-0027, the MiG Killer also depicted in 53 TFS colors from Bitburg AB finds itself as the 493 FS Grim Reapers Squadron Commanders jet based at RAF Lakenheath in the UK.
While the airframe remains the same, the jet is quite different and updated. Depicted as it appeared in 2015 configured for a Combat Air Patrol mission with 6 x AIM-120C active radar missiles and 2 x AIM-9X infrared missiles and a pair of 600 gallon wing tanks.
Since converting to the Eagle in 1994, The Grim Reapers have been awarded the Hughes Trophy as the USAF's top Air Superiority Squadron.
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In Israel, this MiG killer is known as a Baz (falcon in Hebrew) rather than an Eagle. All Baz's are proudly named in bold blue Hebrew on the port nose... 658 is named Typhoon and she has contributed 2 of the IDF F-15's 60+ kills.
The IDF has flown the Baz in two squadrons out of Tel Nof Air Base in central Israel since 1978. They have been constantly updated and use some unique equipment.
658 is ready for an armed reconnaissance mission load out; CFT's for extra fuel with a EL-8222 electronics countermeasures pod and 3 x AIM-7M's hung on them, 2 x Python 3's and 2 x Python 4's under the wings, and an Ophir reconnaissance pod on the centerline.
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The USAF Weapons Instructor Course is graduate school where pilots receive in depth academic and flying instruction to take back to their squadrons. Based at Nellis AFB in Nevada, the F-15 division of the school is the 433d Weapons Squadron "Satan's Angels."
83-014 is shown ready for a Basic Fighter Maneuvering 1-v-1 mission configured with a single CATM-9X and a full load of chaff and flares.
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Tubs need love too!
85-134 is a “tub” which means it has one too many seats for a single engine fighter… many of which have two seat versions that perform a variety of tasks their extra seat allows. Although the tubs are generally a little limited compared to their single seat brethren, they are all combat capable.
134 belongs to the Massachusetts Air Nation Guards 131 FS Barnestomers, 104 FW flying air defense missions from Barnes Air National Guard Base. She is shown ready for an alert mission loaded with a 6 x AIM-120C Active-radar missile, 2 x AIM-9X infrared missile loadout. She also carries a 600 gallon external fuel tank on her centerline and a full complement of chaff and flares.
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The 390th Fighter Squadron Wild Boars, based at Idaho’s Mountain Home AFB, were part of the USAF’s “Air Intervention Expeditionary Wing” experiment. To improve integration between different aircraft types, they were based together rather than at single type bases. The wing consisted of F-15C’s, F-15E’s, F-16CJ’s, a Combat Control Squadron, in addition to an attached B-1B and KC-135 squadrons.
The Wild Boars provided the wing’s dedicated Air-to-Air support with their “light grey” F-15C… including 86-170. She is show with a “2-bag” external wing tank configuration and is armed with 4 x AIM-120B, 2 x AIM-7’s on the forward intake stations, and 2 x AIM-9M’s in addition to her 20mm internal M-61 cannon and defensive Chaff and Flares.
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Originally an active Army Air Corps training unit, the 194 Fighter Squadron became the California Air Nation Guard in 1946. They have operated from several airfield throughout the state since and are currently based at Fresno Air National Guard Base. Since 2013, they have operated the F-15C Eagle. The Griffins’ Eagles are responsible for Air Defense Quick Reaction Alert for central and southern California.
85-0113 is shown in a “triple bubble” long range intercept configuration with a mix of 6 x AIM-120C’s and D’s and 2 x AIM-9X missiles in addition to her 3 x 610 US gallon external tanks.
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City of Astoria is one of the “Cities of Honor” graphics gracing noses of the F-15C’s of the 123 FS, 142 FW, based at Portland International Airport… better known as PDX. One of two Air National Guard F-15 Units in Oregon, it is the current iteration of the 123d Observation Squadron created before the US joined WWII.
Along with the USAF’s other Eagles, 85-0106 remains one of the world’s premier air-superiority fighters having been updated over the years since her introduction nearly 40 years ago. Updated weapons, radar, computers, countermeasures, helmet mounted display system, IR Targeting Pods, and cockpit display keep the “Golden Eagles” at the leading edge of fighter performance.
City of Astoria is depicted in the USAF’s current “mod Eagle” two tone grey camo loaded with the unit’s standard "4x2” load out Zulu Alert configuration of two AIM-120C active radar missiles on her forward fuselage stations with two additional “slammers” on Stations 2B and 8A and two AIM-9X infrared missiles. She additionally carries a pair of 610 gallon drop tanks, a AN/AAQ-33 Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod, and a full complement of 20mm ammunition and self-protection expendables. .
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Five-time winners of the USAF’s Hughes Trophy as the Top Air Defense Squadron, and the first US unit to deploy during OPERATION DESERT SHIELD, the “Ironmen” of Langley AFB’s 71st Tactical Fighter Squadron (later changed to Fighter Squadron), flew the F-15 Eagle from 1976 until 2010.
Ironmen 83-0024 is shown ready for a tactical intercept sortie loaded with a pair of CATM-7’s and a CATM-9M training rounds.
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An unusual configuration for an unusual Eagle squadron.
Founded early in WW2, “The Black Knights of Keflavik” of the 57th FIS flew air defense sorties from the North Atlantic island nation of Iceland for 41 years… the last 10 of which were with the F-15. Situated almost exactly half way between the UK and Greenland, the Black Knight’s base allowed those Eagles to track, intercept, and identify Soviet bombers and patrol aircraft flying from Eastern District airfields toward the western hemisphere.
Covering vast distances over the frigid waters made the otherwise not overly popular conformal fuel tanks a must and the Black Knights, uniquely, rarely flew without them. 80-00259 is shown “cocked” for 5 minute “Zulu” alert with a pair of AIM-7M missiles on the CFT forward inboard stations. Her configuration is unusual both because she carries only a pair of AIM-7.s and no AIM-9’s and the that the 57th carried the otherwise unpopular C-model CFT’s well past when any other USAF unit did so.
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The Mytai Fighters of the Hawaiian ANG 199 FS have operated out of Hickam AFB – now called Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam – since shortly after they were formed in 1946. For 23 years, they used the F-15 (both A and C models) to provided defense of Hawaii and Air Superiority missions as tasked.
76-0032 is shown ready for a short range DCA mission carrying a 4x4 load of AIM-120C’s and AIM-9M’s, her internal Vulcan cannon, and a centerline 600 gallon external tank. She also carries the “ANG exclusive” AN/ALE-58 countermeasures system that uses the BOL dispensers mounted to the aft end of the LAU launch rails on stations 2 and 8.
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Unique nose art for a unique squadron. The was first created just before WW2 but gained it’s special status in 1955 when it was activated at Soesterberg AB in the Netherlands in an agreement between the US government and Holland’s government to station a USAF fighter squadron to aid Holland’s air defense. In 1959, as part of its integration into the host nation’s air defense, the Wolfhounds received a “Royal” designation, associated squadron emblem changes, and the royal orange tail stripe with crown logo. They remain the only USAF squadron so honored.
In 1979, the Wolfhounds became the first F-15 squadron stationed outside of the CONUS and continued to operate the Eagle until they ceased flying operations in 1994.
One of the F-15A’s, with the appropriate tail number 77-0132 was famously bestowed with the “slobbering hound” nose art and a large “Wolfhounds” graphics on the port side of the nose. She is depicted ready for a Basic Fighter Maneuvers (BFM) sortie over the North Sea, cleaned off and carrying a single CATM-9L and expendables.
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Tracing their roots back to 1917, the 43 TFS Hornets are one of the oldest USAF fighter squadrons. Just missing WWI, the Hornets flew during WW2 and the Vietnam conflict prior to being assigned to Alaska Air Command’s Elmendorf AFB. Initially flying F-4’s, they transitioned to the F-15A in 1982.
74-096 is shown in the squadron’s standard two-tone light grey camo with the Alaska state flag’s gold big dipper and north star on a deep blue field on the inside of each vertical stabilizer. She carries the period standard load of 4 x AIM-9L’s and 4 x AIM-7M’s in addition to the internal 20mm M-61 cannon and a “triple bubble” load of 3 x 600 gal external tanks.
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Although know as the “Light Grey,” there has been a Dark Grey F-15C. While preparing to bring the F-15E into the active inventory, the USAF tested several different camo schemes on F-15C’s belonging to Nellis AFB’s 422 TES Green Bats.
82-0022 carried the “winning” overall Gunship Grey camo scheme which was adopted for the “Mud Hen” fleet. She is shown ready for a typical training sortie with a single CATM-9M on station 2A.
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