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Jack Ericson, the founder of Erickson Air-Crane, purchased his first warbird, a P-51, in 1980. Three years later, he purchased a Corsair and a Spitfire and began his collection. In 1991, it was placed on loan to the Tillamook Air Museum. [1] However, in April 2013, the collection announced it would not be renewing its lease on the museum. [2]
Vintage warbird restoration, or classic aircraft restoration, is the process of taking aircraft from the previous era, and performing processes such as maintenance, repairs, and refurbishments to restore the aircraft to its original military configuration (minus any working weaponry).
The Valiant Air Command, Inc. Warbird Museum (VAC) is located at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Brevard County, just south of Titusville, Florida. The VAC contains vintage aircraft and a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m 2) hangar with a restoration area. [1] The VAC also has a Memorabilia Hall with flight gear, dress uniforms, weapons and ...
The National Warplane Museum is a warbird and military history museum currently located on the grounds of the Geneseo Airport in Geneseo, New York.Founded in 1994, the museum restores, flies, and displays vintage military aircraft from the Second World War and Korean War eras.
The Military Aviation Museum is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and houses one of the world's largest private collections of warbirds in flying condition. [1] It includes examples from Germany, France, Italy, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, from both World War I and World War II. The collection contains aircraft ranging ...
Scott Glover, the founder of Mid America Pet Food, began collecting airplanes in 1996. After 17 years, he established the museum in 2013. [1] [2] [3]The museum worked with Dynamic Aviation to restore the Lockheed Constellation Columbine II to flight in 2015.
Restoration began in 1992 with parts from another damaged B-17 (sn. 44–85813), performed by Tom Reilly and company/Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum (aka "Bombertown USA"), located at that time at Kissimmee Gateway field, Kissimmee, Florida. She returned to the air on 8 December 2004 and had been touring the country offering the public ...
In 1998, Microsoft Corporation co-founder Paul Allen began acquiring and preserving vintage aircraft. [3] Allen's passion for aviation and history, and his awareness of the increasing rarity of original World War II aircraft, motivated him to restore these artifacts to the highest standard of authenticity and share them with the public.