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-North American Aviation YF-95A Sabre (s/n 50-577). | Photo: U.S. Air Force

FLIGHTLINE: 143 - NORTH AMERICAN YF-95 SABRE DOG

Developed from the F-86 Sabre, the YF-95 was an interceptor/night fighter, the first single engine/single crew aircraft of this type in the USAF.

The North American F-86 Sabre was designed in the late 1940s for the USAAF/USAF as the first swept-wing fighter, serving with distinction in Korea. With the USAF desiring a radar-equipped interceptor variant, North American hastily modified two F-86 airframes with a new nose and external reheat device in place of the expected afterburner equipped J47-GE-17. Though based on the F-86, the new planes had only a 25% commonality with their forbearers, and were redesignated YF-95A (s/n 50-577 and -578). The first aircraft was rolled out of NAA Inglewood plant in September 1949, and in late November it was transported to Edwards AFB for testing. No radar or armaments were fitted during the flight test program.

-The first YF-95A at the North American Aviation flight line, Los Angeles International Airport. Photo: North American Aviation, Inc.

The USAF revised the designation during the test program, and the YF-95A became the YF-86D, with the production aircraft becoming F-86D Sabre Dogs. The F-86D was larger than the F-86A-C, with a longer engine, and the all-flying horizontal stabilizer was enlarged. The new nose featured a radome containing the AN/APG-36 radar, and the six .50 Browning machine guns were removed, with a retractable tray of 24 70mm Mighty Mouse FFAR being added to the fuselage behind the nose landing gear. The sliding canopy of the F-86A was replaced by a clamshell-type in the F-86D.

-An F-86D firing a Mighty Mouse rocket. The fire control could be set to fire the rockets in salvos of 6, 12, and 24. | Photo: USAF

SABRE DOG, SABREDOG, DOG SABRE.

The F-86D proved to be 50mph faster than the F-89 or F-94, two other interceptors of the same period, though the F-89 was more heavily armed, and both of the latter aircraft had two crew, which reduced pilot workload. From a standing start, the interceptor could climb to 40,000' in 5 minutes, 54 seconds with a full combat load, and the max service ceiling was 54,000 feet. Depending on the engine and loadout, the F-86D had a max speed of Mach 0.93, but a max range of only 330 miles (F-86s were not equipped for aerial refueling). Production of the F-86D ended in September 1953, with 2,506 aircraft completed. Sabre Dogs comprised fully two-thirds of the Air Defense Command's interceptor squadrons. After their service with the USAF ended in the late 1950s and early 1960s, many F-86Ds found their way in the air forces of Denmark, Greece, Japan, South Korea, The Philippines, Taiwan and (strangely enough) Yugoslavia, which saw a souring of relations with the USSR in 1948, and engaged in a rapprochement with the west that lasted until 1960s.

-An F-86D-35-NA of the 525th FIS at Bitburg, Germany in 1954. | Photo: USAF

PROJECT FOLLOW-ON

In the mid-1950s, a conversion project for a number of low-airframe time F-86D was undertaken to allow the Sabre Dogs to act under the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) system, the first computerized ground control and intercept system. Under Project FOLLOW-ON, 2192 conversion kits (later scaled back to 981) were ordered, which consisted of the larger wings of an F-86F-40, which had extensions to the wingtips and leading edges as well as slats, all of which improved the aircraft's maneuverability at altitude. The kits also included the new avionics which allowed the aircraft to interlink with SAGE, including an AN/ARR-39 datalink receiver, which also added a new antenna to the fuselage ahead of the starboard wing, an AN/ARC-34 radio set, an AN/APX-25 identification radar and an AN/ARN-31 glide slope receiver. The existing engines, either a J47-GE-33 or J47-GE-17B was retained, as was the retractable FFAR tray. The first flight of a completely upgraded F-86L was in May 1956, and the 317th FIS at McChord AFB received their first planes in November. The service life of F-86Ls in the ADC was short, as they were already being phased out in favor of the F-102 and F-106 by 1957. By 1960, all F-86Ls had been transferred to the Air National Guard. Six ANG squadrons were placed on alert during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, and by the summer of 1965 all of the F-86Ls were withdrawn from ANG service as well. Seventeen to twenty L model were supplied to the Royal Thai Air Force, which served with the Number 12 Squadron at Don Maung Airport until 1976.

-F-86Ls of the 182nd FIS, Texas Air Guard, in 1959. | Photo: USAF

-A preserved F-86L at the -North American Aviation YF-95A Sabre (s/n 50-577). | Photo: U.S. Air Force

EUROPEAN DOGS

NATO forces saw an urgent need for a high-speed interceptor to counter a feared Soviet bomber fleet, and the F-86D was the logical choice. The USAF feared the advanced Hughes E-4 fire-control falling into enemy hand in case of an accident, and proposed a downgraded version instead, swapping the E-4 for the simpler MG-4, which also involved removing the FFAR tray and replacing it with four 20mm cannon. On 16 May 1953 a license was signed with Fiat under which North American would supply components for aircraft to be assembled in Italy. These F-86Ks would be flown by the French Armee de l'Air, as well as the reconstituted air forces of West Germany and Italy. A further contract signed on 18 December saw 120 F-86Ks being built by NAA for the air forces of the Netherlands and Norway. The cannon armaments were later supplemented with launch rails for two or four AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles. F-86Ks were retired by Italy and West Germany in the middle 1960s, replaced by the Lockheed F-104. The Italian Sabres were overhauled by Fiat and passed on to the Turkish Air Force, who used them until 1969. The German F-86s, meanwhile, were sold to Venezuela who had difficulties operating the plane, and most were grounded in 1969 after a series of accidents. At least five of the aircraft were sold to the air force of Honduras, which retired them in 1980.

-An F-86K of the Royal Norwegian Air Force. Photo: Cato Edvardsen

-An F-86K from Jagdgeschwader 74 of the West German Luftwaffe in 1965. This aircraft was later sold to Venezuela. | Photo: German Federal Archive

-A preserved F-86K in the markings of the Italian Air Force. | Photo: Aldo Bidini

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California Air National Guard F-86D AF51-6261

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North American F86D Sabre Dog - Iowa ANG

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Appleton WI American Legion by Vinny Gragg Via Flickr: F86D Dog Sabre war plane on display at the American Legion on College Ave in Appleton, WI.

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