This aircraft came to the museum in August 1957. It is marked as an F-86D assigned to the 97th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, during the mid-1950s.
North American
F-86D Sabre
The F-86D was an all-weather interceptor version of the famed F-86A, the airplane that won supremacy of the skies from the MiG 15 during the Korean War. It was used during the 1950s, both in the U.S. and overseas, to guard against possible air attack.