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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.
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 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 ...
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]
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 ...
The museum was formed in 2003 by David O'Maley Sr. and opened to the public on 21 May 2005. [7] [8] O'Maley is a former CEO of Ohio National Life Insurance Company.[9]In 2006, a TBM Avenger aircraft operated by the museum taxied into a homebuilt plane at the 2006 Oshkosh fly in.
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.