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B-25J 44-28932 Tondelayo B-25J Mitchell – 44-30069 at Museu Aerospacial in Campos dos Afonsos Air Force Base – Rio de Janeiro B-25H Barbie III taxiing at Centennial Airport, Colorado B-25J 45-8883 Grumpy of the Canadian Warplane Heritage B-25J 44-30832 Take-off Time B-25D 43-3634 Yankee Warrior B-25J 43-28222 at Hurlburt Field, Florida B-25J 44-86772 at the Hill Air Force Base Museum, Hill ...
Vought F4U-1 "Bird Cage" Corsair Bureau Number 02465 being lifted from Lake Michigan by A and T Recovery. A and T Recovery (Allan Olson and Taras Lyssenko) is an American company that has the primary purpose to locate and recover once lost World War II United States Navy aircraft for presentation to the American public. [2]
The museum was incorporated in 1994 by Harold Madison, Charles Mayer, and Bill Byrne. Madison contacted his friend Robert Pond, a World War II veteran who collected and rebuilt warbirds and classic cars. Pond's aircraft were displayed at the Planes of Fame East Museum in Eden Prairie, Minnesota and he agreed to loan some of them to the museum ...
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 ...
Jul. 15—JANESVILLE — On July 23-25, the Southern Wisconsin Regional Airport will take visitors back to the 1940s and recreate some of the wartime sights and sounds during Janesville's Warbird ...
Under restoration FM-2. 57039 - Restoration is being done by Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan. While conducting training on 28 December 1944, the FM2 Wildcat malfunctioned and rolled off the deck of the training aircraft carrier USS Sable. The pilot, ENS William Forbes, escaped from the aircraft before it sank into Lake ...
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]
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.