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In 1979, the glider was purchased, restored, and completed in time for the glider pilots' annual reunion in Dallas. After that reunion, plans were made and steps were taken to build a museum to house the CG-4A. The first Silent Wings Museum opened to the public on November 10, 1984, in Terrell, east of Dallas. By 1997, the need for a more ...
42-53078 – TG-4A on static display at the Air Mobility Command Museum at Dover Air Force Base near Dover, Delaware. [8] 42-437357 – TG-4A on static display at the National Soaring Museum in Elmira, New York. [9] TG-4 at the Silent Wings Museum. 42-530727 – TG-4A on static display at the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas. [10]
This list of museums in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
American Wings Air Museum, Blaine – closed; CAF Minnesota Wing Museum, Inver Grove Heights [58] Fagen Fighters WWII Museum, Granite Falls; Golden Wings Flying Museum, Blaine – closed; Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, Minneapolis; Northwest Airlines History Center Museum, Bloomington [59] Polar Aviation Museum, Blaine – closed [60]
45-15691 – On display at the Silent Wings Museum in Lubbock, Texas. [24] Cockpit of a CG-4A at the Silent Wings Museum, 2008; 45-15965 – On display at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Portage, Michigan. It is painted as 42–46574. [25] [26] 45-17241 – On static display at the Airborne Museum in Sainte-Mère-Église, Normandy. [27] [28] [29]
The TG-5 was a three-seat training glider of 1942 based upon the O-58 design. This aircraft retained the O-58's rear fuselage, wings, and tail while adding a new front fuselage in place of the engine. In all, Aeronca built 250 TG-5 gliders for the Army. The Navy received three as the LNR-1. [3]
Furthermore, the glider, once released at some distance from the actual target, was effectively silent and difficult for the enemy to identify. Larger gliders were developed to land heavy equipment like anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, small vehicles, such as jeeps, and also light tanks (e.g., the Tetrarch tank). This heavier equipment made ...
The Douglas XCG-17 was an American assault glider, developed by the conversion of a C-47 Skytrain twin-engine transport during World War II.Although the XCG-17 was successfully tested, the requirement for such a large glider had passed, and no further examples of the type were built; one additional C-47, however, was converted in the field to glider configuration briefly during 1946 for ...