James Jabara
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James "Jabby" Jabara was the first American and United States Air Force jet ace. Born in Oklahoma, he lived in Kansas where he enlisted as an aviation cadet at Fort Riley after graduating from high sc
(c.1950s)
Jabara sitting in the cockpit of his P-51 during World War II c. 1944
Jabara standing on his F-86 Sabre in April 1953
In one of Jabara's assignments after the Korean War, he piloted the Convair B-58 Hustler, the first supersonic bomber
Cessna T-37 Tweet
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The Cessna T-37 Tweet is a small, economical twin-engine jet trainer aircraft. It was flown for decades as a primary trainer of the United States Air Force as well as in the air forces of several othe
James Jabara
…Cemetery. His grandson, 2d Lt Nicholas Jabara, USAF, a 2001 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, was killed during pilot training in a T-37 accident at Laughlin AFB, Texas on 31 January 2002. An airport just northeast of Wichita, Kansas, was named the Colonel James Jabara Airport in his…
A T-37 Tweet from the 85th Flying Training Squadron, Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, flies over Amistad Reservoir during a training mission.
The XT-37, circa 1954
A panorama of T-37s at Sheppard AFB in 2007 operated as part of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program.
A formation of four T-37s, circa 2000