{"id":136105,"date":"2024-10-03T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/fate-5-oldest-us-military-aircraft-still-flying\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T04:00:13","slug":"replacement-or-upgrade-the-fate-of-the-5-oldest-us-military-aircraft-still-flying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136105","title":{"rendered":"Replacement Or Upgrade? The Fate Of The 5 Oldest US Military Aircraft Still Flying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The             <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"306101\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states-air-force\/\"  >United States Air Force<\/a><\/span> continues to operate old (very old) aircraft designs that trace their origins to the early Cold War. These are mostly larger transport\/tanker\/bomber-style aircraft (        <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2033043\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/top-5-oldes-us-fighter-jets-in-service\/\" >fighter jets tend to be newer<\/a><\/span>), and while some will retire, there is no end in sight for others. Missing from this list are aircraft like         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2027240\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/u-2-dragon-lady-meet-one-of-the-us-air-forces-oldest-cold-war-aircraft-still-operating\/\" >the iconic U-2 Dragon Lady spy plane as it is soon to retire<\/a><\/span>. Incredibly, there         <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2032681\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/wwii-military-aircraft-in-use-today\/\" >may even be a few WWII-era aircraft still operating around the world<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is still operating aircraft that first flew 70 years ago and plans to keep some of them operating for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2038,1455,809,412,1328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-b-52","category-bomber","category-fleet-analysis","category-military","category-united-states-air-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136106,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136105\/revisions\/136106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}