Warbird Information Exchange

Ok, my list of must sees ....

1. Short Sunderland, RAF Museum, UK
2. Vickers Wellington, RAF Museum, UK
3. Short Stirling, Argentina
4. IL-2 Stormovik, USSR
5. Junkers JU-87 Stuka, Chicago
6. Hughes Spruce Goose, Oregon
7. Handley Page Halifax, Trenton, ON ( and i live only a few hours from there)
8. Ilyushin Db-3 bomber, Air Force Museum, Monino, Russia
9. FE2b Replica, New Zealand (is there an original?)
10. Mitsubishi G4M if one exists complete somewhere?

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Mike

Ah yes, There we were, left engine on fire, right engine feathered...ahh yes,...there we were, ..Screwed! No Kissing!

Great suggestions, like them, folks.

The Stirling (China jokes aside) is extinct, with a several groups building cockpits or sections, and some large fuselage chunks and an eroded wreck at sea. Argentina has two Avro Lincolns - is that what you were thinking of? (And there's a third Lincoln at Cosford).

FE-2b - The Vintage Aviator example (with an original, rare, Beardmore engine) flies. There's a reconstructed 'original' at the RAF Museum, which went on show in the last couple of years.

Mitsubishi G4M Betties. There's a complete looking wreck at Chino in Planes of Fame, and the one that Yamamoto was killed aboard is still relatively complete where it came down in the jungle, I understand. There's other unrecovered wrecks and a part reconstruction was shown here on WIX IIRC recently, which is Japan.

The RAF Museum's Wellington is being restored at Cosford at the moment, and is a postwar trainer T-10 masquerading as a bomber, so IMHO, comes a second to 'R for Robert' at Brooklands, which is an actual combat veteran and gets cool points for having been recovered from none-other than Loch Ness.

Plenty more lists wanted!
Regards,

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James K

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Hughes H-4 Hercules Evergreen Aviation Museum
Aichi M6A1 Seiran NASM Udvar-Hazy
Fw-190D-9 NMUSAF
F3F-2 Planes of Fame
B-26 Marauder Fantasy of Flight
Bf 109F Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Beaufighter Australian National Aviation Museum
B-239 Aviation Museum of Central Finland
IL-2-M3 Museum of Aviation Belgrade
Me 410A-1 RAFM Cosford

Certainly wouldn't be the only aircraft I'd be interested in at each of these places! Plenty of other museums I'd like to visit as well.

Sold to a new owner, I believe.

I must have had a brain fart, Lincoln is what I meant.
I remember years ago that there was someone in Japan who was restoring a Japanese bomber and a zero i believe. Correct me if i am wrong, but they won't allow warbirds to fly in Japan?

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Mike

Ah yes, There we were, left engine on fire, right engine feathered...ahh yes,...there we were, ..Screwed! No Kissing!