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Description
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | O-3 | |
| Designation: | YO-3 | |
| Nickname: | Q-Star | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Tri-Service | |
| Designation Period: | 1962-Present | |
| Basic role: | Observation | |
| Status: | Prototype | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| United States Army Aviation Museum | Ozark | Alabama |
YO-3 on display
Pima Air & Space Museum | United States Army Aviation Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Bill Quillen , PA | Correction: YO-3s are seen at the 10:50 mark of the film 08/28/2015 @ 05:22 [ref: 69228] |
| Bill Quillen Jefferson Hills, PA | Hi- I took some home movies while assigned to the 56th Trans Co at Bearcat Army Airfield Long Thanh North Republic of Vietnam in late September of 1971 and they contain brief footage of 2 YO-3As being readied for transport back to the US. They're seen loaded onto trailers with wings detached and placed along the fuselage on those trailers. They're seen near the end of the film at about the 12:00 mark or so. Here's a link to the video: https://youtu.be/8PFNs9GFfxk All the best ~ Bill Quillen 08/28/2015 @ 05:15 [ref: 69227] |
| michael j snarr mayfield, KY | I was an Air Traffic Controller on temp. duty at Ft Ord in 1970 and can confirm how quiet the bird was! I was on night flying duty in the tower with 2 air craft out on training missions ( running the beaches a lot) all was quiet not expecting a call from them for about a half hour. Another controller and myself had all field lights on minimum and were just chatting at the consols when we herd real angry sounding foot steps coming up the steel stairs of the tower. One of the planes out on training was flown by one of the flight commanders and he had had a complete electrical failure the only thing working was the engine. The person that came up the stairs was this very Captain and he was fuming hot that we in the tower were all asleep or something and he was going to court marshal us for not seeing him buzz the tower and giving him a green light to land! What to do! I asked him to please stand on the cat walk around the tower on the side of the active run way. Surpriseling he complied and I called the other aircraft to request he make a close fly by on the tower with NO lights on at the level of the cat walk. Well this pilot was very complyant and he made 2 runs past the tower at 50 yards or so away. By this time the Captain came back in and was still very angry, with him present I asked the second pilot who had ran the tower to just describe the manuvers he had just performed and he commented on the fact that this same Captain that was standing on the cat walk. Again I asked the second pilot to buzz the tower and this time with all nav. light on, we all went an stood on the cat walk and even with the lights on and 3 of us listening we could barely make him out and for sure NO sound could be herd! The Captain became very appolejetic and became our friend as he could not believe the air craft was in fact vertuly silent. mike 11/13/2014 @ 07:33 [ref: 68757] |
| Dan , CO | AIRCRAFT, 1977 LOCKHEED QUIET STAR Y-03A S/N: 69-18010 is for sale right now!! I think this is the last one that's operational - NASA had it.
http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucindx/?sl=91QSCI15028601 11/03/2014 @ 17:12 [ref: 68740] |
| Dan , CO | AIRCRAFT, 1977 LOCKHEED QUIET STAR Y-03A S/N: 69-18010 is for sale right now!! I think this is the last one that's operational - NASA had it.
http://gsaauctions.gov/gsaauctions/aucindx/?sl=91QSCI15028601 11/03/2014 @ 17:11 [ref: 68739] |
| Peter McCook , FL | The Hiller Air Museum in San Carlos Calif has a YO-3A hanging from the rafters. Great display! 10/30/2008 @ 09:01 [ref: 22949] |
| Michael R Pass Deary, ID | I was station at Bihn Thuy, AFB. Myself and three others had the time to get in over 100 mission in the yo-3a. I really enjoyed flying as an observer in the YO-3A.
The begining stages of stealth aircraft! The Quite Aicraft Assc. will be having a reunion in Branson, MO. The dates 7,8,9 November 2008. Hope to see you there. 04/02/2008 @ 17:04 [ref: 20321] |
| David Hatcher Enterprise, AL | Caught "outside" at Guthrie Field, Fort Rucker Alabama.
It is in non display storage. dahat001@aol.com 11/30/2007 @ 17:30 [ref: 18740] |
| Glen Douglass Burlington, WA | YO-3A # 18005 has been parked in the open at Skagit Regional Airport, Burlington, Washington for at least 15 years. Tires are flat, fabric in bad shape. It is a tough old bird but is slowly rotting away in the wet Pacific Northwest climate. Who acquires a treasure like this and proceeds to slowly kill it off? A tragedy. 05/15/2007 @ 18:24 [ref: 16494] |
| Dale Ross Stith , TX | YO-3A serial numbers are 69-18000 through 69-18010.
I will search for 69-14000 and 69-14001 Tail Numbers on the chance they might have been assigned to the QT-2PC Prize Crew Aircraft at one time. YO-3As were not described as Quiet-Stars in the early days. Our Q-Star was a different aircraft (see quietaircraft.org) 08/29/2006 @ 12:38 [ref: 14025] |
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