Warbird Information Exchange

The thread that resulted in the ID of a Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer got me wondering - to date, how many warbirds and vintage aircraft have been recovered from Iraq/Afghanistan since the latest troubles began there in the early 2000s?

Anyone have a list? I seem to recall some Sea Furies coming out and maybe some earlier vintage Hawker fighters?

I know the NMUSAF got that wingless MiG-25. Did the petting zoo come up with anything?

Orig post for reference: http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64633

Sorry...no list.

But one of the rarest finds from Afghanistan: Multiple Ro.37


https://theaviationist.com/2010/07/12/t ... ghanistan/

http://www.tantopergioco.it/wp-content/ ... 37_137.jpg

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That is cool!

Tom P.

I remember this story. Very cool. Makes you wonder what all they've pulled out of there besides airplanes. I seem to recall an inter-war era tank being pulled out of there.

IIRC the Patton museum at Ft Knox received an FT-17 light tank. There may have been others.

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Rob

I think it was this tank



As I recall in reading the stuff posted by it, they found -2- of these and by the time it took them to get a truck to haul them, someone had removed the carburetors.........

The tanks actually belong to the National Armor and Cavalry Museum, at Fort Benning, Georgia. My son and I were there the last week it was open at Fort Knox. The Patton Museum is still at Fort Knox but they moved the tanks.

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My apologies for the dead link on my previous post.

It was meant to illustrate the restored ex-Afghan Ro.37bis now on display at the Italian Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle.


http://cdn.airplane-pictures.net/images ... 191830.jpg

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Man, what a beauty!