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Flashback to July of 2009 ~~
Photographed 12 years ago as it taxied north on Charlie Taxiway ....

United States Air Force Raytheon T-1A Jayhawk (No visible reg)
39th FTS (Flying Training Squadron) // 340th FTG (Flying Training Group)
Air Education and Training Command
Randolph AFB, TX

* With the exception of the aircraft flown by the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels demo teams, this is the only (well, OK, there was ONE other aircraft --- see *** below) United States military aircraft I have ever seen in my 71 years that displayed no registration number anywhere on it. There were no reg numbers of any type on the fuselage or on either the top or bottom of the wings. We even looked on the wheel struts. Nadda. *

*** To be totally honest, I have seen one other "pseudo-military" aircraft that had no reg number displayed on the exterior. It was flown by Air America when I was stationed at Misawa in 1970. Air America aircraft weren't actually US military aircraft in the strictest sense, but anyone who was in Southeast Asia in that time frame knows well enough about the US government agency that operated Air America.