[ARC5] F-86 Radios

[Robert Eleazer]

My F-86F pilot's manual, dated 1960, shows the ARC-3 as applicable to F-865F-1 through F-86F-15 aircraft not yet modified by T.O.  Those same type aircraft modified by T.O. had ARC-33.  F-86F-25 and later aircraft had ARC-27.

Most aircraft had ARN-6 but some had that removed and replaced by ARN-21 TACAN.    

Most had APX-6 or 6A IFF but some were modified with APX-25.

Of course, all had APG-30 gunsight radar.

So if you are talking Gabby in Korea, flying F-86A through early F-86F, it likely would be ARC-3, ARN-6, and APX-6 as well as the APG-30.

As a comparison, the F-80A had ARC-3, ARN-6 or ARN-7, and some early ones had BC-1206 instead of the radio compasses.

Wayne