Reno, in Nevada, was a stop on our way back to California; it had been a long drive from Salt Lake City to here, esspecially because all afternoon it had been poor weather. The next day I quickly stopped at Reno- Stead Airport as in previous years DC-3's had been stored here and while I found no propliners, there was a good selection of warbirds plus a vintage transport...
Date of visit 28May08.

Air Tractor AT-802 N427NS (c/n 802A-0153), registered to William R. Dare of Mohave Valley,AZ on 08Feb08. This plane was manufactured in 2003 and is a socalled 'SEAT': Single Engine Air Tanker.

The Air Tractor AT-802 is a fire-fighting aircraft that first flew in the United States in Oct90.
The AT-802 carries a chemical hopper between the engine firewall and the cockpit and another one under the belly. In the U.S., it is considered a Type 4 SEAT, or Single Engine Air Tanker. As of 2007, it is the largest agricultural-type aircraft to enter production.
In its standard configuration, the aircraft utilizes conventional landing gear (two main wheels and a tail wheel), however, a number of aircraft have been converted to the Fire Boss configuration, which utilizes Wipaire 10000 amphibious floats, so that it can land on a traditional runway or on water. In addition, the Fire Boss can scoop water from a lake or river for use on a fire. In addition to the standard fuselage-mounted retardant tank, the Fire Boss has tanks in the floats. Operations with floats installed have been shown to produce a shorter and narrower retardant drop pattern than wheeled AT-802s.
[source: Wikipedia]

There are several jet-engined warbirds here, don't really know much about them. Except they must be expensive toys!

That 3036 signifies its construction number, this is MiG-21 UM NX7238T, registered 23May01 to MIG21 Corp of San Jose,CA.

Hmm, what kind of bird is this...

Frank Mink provided me with the following link www.warbirdregistry.org/jetregistry :
TS-11 Iskra/N513BN / Nowak Aviation Co, Johnston, RI, 1999-2005; registered as N513BN, stored at Stead,NV.

North American F-100D Super Sabre
N2011U / 55-2888 (cn 224-155)

Grumman G-164 Schweizer N8555H.

The Grumman G-164 Ag Cat is a single-engine biplane agricultural aircraft, developed by Grumman in the 1950s.
The Ag Cat design has been in almost continual production since 1957. Initial production was through a contract with the Schweizer Aircraft Corporation, who built 2,455 for Grumman between 1957 and 1981.
In 1981 Schweizer bought the rights to the design and continued production under the name Schweizer Ag Cat.
[Source: Wikipedia]

PZL-MIELEC SB-LIM-2 (MiG 15 UTI) NX304SB. manufactured 1955.

Canadair CT-133 (Lockheed T-33, serial 21613) N613RC of Cactus Air Force...
That pointy thing isn't a standard feature, is it?

Links:
Reno-Stead on Airliners.net

The Road Goes On... back to US Southwest 2008