the Sabre was an emblem of an age when pilot skill took priority, and the aircraft he flew a marriage of engineering talent and bold design. With fewer than two dozen flyable F-86s left in the U.S., ...

The Museum’s F-86A was assigned to the 4th Fighter Interceptor Group at Langley Air Force Base in Virgina in July 1949, and shipped out for action in Korea in December 1950. It flew its combat sorties ...

Above the skies of the Korean Peninsula, the F-86 Sabre formed one part of an epic aerial rivalry—against the MiG-15, the Soviet Union’s first mass-produced jet. If asked to name the most numerously ...

Meet the F-86: With nearly 10,000 units built, the North American F-86 Sabre is, by far, the most-produced Western fighter ever built. Built by North American, shortly after they created the famed ...

In November of 1950, only five months into the Korean War, the Soviets claimed air superiority with their MiG-15s. Thanks to the aircraft's high operating ceiling, speed, and design for intercepting ...

The Sabre combined speed, agility, and firepower as never before. At the point in which the Allies had believed they enjoyed total air dominance over Hitler’s Germany toward the end of the Second ...