The North American F-100 "Super Sabre" served with the USAF from 1954 to 1971, and with the ANG until 1979. As a Century Series fighter, it was the first USAF fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. The F-100 was designed by North American Aviation as a higher-performance follow-on to the F-86 "Sabre" air-superiority fighter.

 

Used widely during the Vietnam War, the North American F-100D was the fighter-bomber version of the F-100 interceptor, and it first entered service in 1956. The F-100D was equipped with supersonic autopilot, an enlarged fin and rudder, inboard landing flaps, and underwing pylons that could carry up to 7,040 lbs of ordnance.

 

Although the F-100 was used in Vietnam for close air support (nicknamed  "Hun" - a shortened version of One Hundred), our aircraft never left the CONUS. Our aircraft was the fifteenth aircraft off the production line and was a test aircraft at Edwards. AFB. Later, it was preserved at Lackland AFB, TX, from October 1978 through 2003, before coming to Travis AFB.