The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo is a supersonic jet fighter designed and produced by the American McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. Development of the F-101 began in the late 1940s as a long-range bomber escort (then known as a penetration fighter) for the United States Air Force's (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC).

Four U.S. Air Force McDonnell F-101B Voodoo fighters from the 178th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 119th Fighter Group, North Dakota Air National Guard, in flight. The North Dakota Air National Guard flew the F-101 from 1969–1977.

Initially designed as a long-range bomber escort for the Strategic Air Command (SAC), the Voodoo was instead developed as a nuclear-armed fighter bomber for the Tactical Air Command (TAC). There was also a photo reconnaissance version based on the same airframe.

List of surviving McDonnell F-101 Voodoos identifies those Voodoos that are on display by country, model number, serial number, and location (museum or park and city); for USAF and other nations Voodoos.

Air National Guard Units flew F-101Bs from November 1969 until August 1983. McDonnell Aircraft Company, St. Louis, Missouri, built our Voodoo and delivered it to the USAF in November 1959. Its military career was as an experimental and test aircraft.

May 15, 2020 · The F-101B was withdrawn from ADC service from 1969 to 1972, with many surviving USAF aircraft transferred to the Air National Guard (replacing F-102s), serving until 1982. The last Voodoo in US service (F-101B-105-MC 58-300) was finally retired by the 2nd Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron at Tyndall AFB in Florida on 21 September 1982.

May 10, 2023 · In early 1968, the seizure of the U.S. naval surveillance vessel Pueblo by the North Koreans led President Lyndon B. Johnson to activate all three Air National Guard Voodoo units. Each served a rotational tour at Itazuke Air Force Base, Japan, and compiled impressive records, flying 19,715 tactical hours in 11,561 sorties and exposing 841,601 ...

By the time F-101 production ended in March 1961, McDonnell had built 785 Voodoos, including 480 F-101Bs, the two-seat, all-weather interceptor used by the Air Defense Command. In the reconnaissance versions, the Voodoo was the world's first …

Extensively modified versions were produced as an all-weather interceptor aircraft, serving with the Air Defense Command, later renamed the Aerospace Defense Command (ADC), the Air National Guard, the Royal Canadian Air Force and the unified Canadian Forces after 1968. Below is a list of F-101 Voodoo airframes that survived military service.

In November of 1969, Washington Air National Guards 141th FIG / 116th FIS was one of the first two interceptor squadrons in the Air National Guard to receive VooDoos from ADC squadrons, a total of 7 squadrons would eventually fly the F-101.