F-16 Aircraft Database

Flew 49 missions in Desert Storm. Nose art is of a weather map with Iraq and a hurricane storm.

Flew 40 missions in Desert Storm.

Nose art is troll holding an aim-9 over his head with tongue hanging out.

Flew 57 missions in Desert Storm. When the 363rd TFW returned home from Desert Storm in March of 1991 four aircraft kept their nose art for the Shaw AFB open house. The other three aircraft were with nose art: "Sweet . . . But Deadly", "Code One Candy", and "Hammer Time" which Warren Trask touched up before the show. All nose art but "Hammer Time" was removed right after the air show.

Flew 50 missions in Desert Storm. This is Warren Trak's last art work applied during the war completed just before he left the gulf on March 11, 1991. This artwork didn't even last a month.

Outward facing noes gear door art.

Shot down during Desert Storm by SAM. The pilot, Capt. William Andrews, ejected and became a POW, but was released eight days later after the end of the war. The F-16 was hit by a SA-16 when flying a low-level sortie. Awarded the Air Force Cross for preventing missile shooters from getting a wingman. A UH-60A (78-23015) was shot down trying to rescue the F-16 pilot. Five of its crew died while three where taken prisoner. The aircraft carried nose art at the time applied for the war. Art was a blond woman in a white bikini lying sideways on the right side of the aircraft below the canopy. Before the aircraft was destroyed it flew 43 combat missions.

Retaining the nose-art.