The 191St expectance Crew for the RF101

 Great photo of the crew that received the active-duty aircraft for the 191St. Photo provided by George Nelson   The photo show my favorite Maintenance Officer Skip Kimberly

This photo was taken 1970 Dec at Shaw AFB. Skip is 6th from the left.

The rest all 127th members. Starting from the left. George Nelson, Ron Martin, Larry Bishop, Bob Brent, Norb Dominick, Skip Kimberly, Dean Crowder, K B Moore, ? Wolf, John Venus.

191St F-106

 Here is a photo of one of the F-106 that was assigned to the 191St FIG at Selfridge.  The crew chief during the assignment was John Bullis. The photo was found by my friend Jaime that lived in Australia 

How to idenify 127Th vs 191st RF-84f

Here is the answer. 

Bob Ostenfeld

Yellow nose gear fender belonged to the 191st, red nose gear fender belonged to the 127th.  Note the yellow nose tire fender.

MIANG T-33 and F-89

 These go way back to the Detroit Metro Airport years.   Would be before the 127th and 191st where transferred to Selfridge AFB.  This would be around 1971 during the McNamara base closing.

127Th T-33

 

MIANG T-33 over the years.

 Michigan Air Guard had quite a few T-bird over the  here are a few. 

Also 191St  T-33 Crew Chief.

Aaron Doty

Mike Elward

Cliff  Dunlap

Mike Galea

Msgt Torrey

Doug Fiman

Cass Maciejewski

191St get it first phantoms

 F-4C flightline photos taken by a MDC photographer on the Michigan Air National Guard, 191st Fighter Interceptor Group Selfridge air base. Dated 25 August 1979. Note: This negs/photos were never filed and cannot be found anywhere else. Thanks Ron Downey for providing these rare photos.

Also if you knew the crew chief of many of these Phantoms let me know.  We are fading into the sunset.  These men need to be remembered.

   Added two photos by Art Doran of freshly arrived F-4C for the 191st Fig  9/9/2020

Photo Credit art Doran.

Crew Chief John Bullis/ later Jake Williams

Crew John Bullis/ Later Jake Williams.

Crew chief currently unknown

Crew Chief Mike Galea

Chief Crew Mike Galea

Crew Chief unknown at this time

Crew Chief Jim Hanna/ Edgar Gunn

Crew chief John Bullis/ later Jake Williams

Crew Chief Paul Chamberlain

Photo credit Art Doran.

191st FIG more pictures.

F-106's   beautiful aircraft.  Note the aircraft has the blown canopy mod.

56-0463 F-106A of the 171st FIS Michigan ANG at Selfridge. Taken 5 Jun 1976 by Fred Harl

Crew chief Eddie Gumko

Michigan ANG RF-84

The aircraft may have been a pig to flight.  But sure looked good.  Specialty in nature metal finish 

Modeling the 191st FIG last fighter F-16ADF

Currently I working a 1/72 hasegawa F-16ADF in 191st Markings.  The F-16 was the unit last fighter after being in the Air Defense business since the early 1970.   The unit when from RF-101 to F-106.  After they got the F-4C to be followed by F-4D's.   In the around 1989 we got F-16A from Moody AFB.  These aircraft where USAF own aircraft that became ANG fighter.   Around 1994 we had been phased out of the Air Defense as President Clinton decide the Soviets where no longer the bad guys.

Here are some picture of the decals and the aircraft.

Doug Kerchner Pilot