Warbird Information Exchange

Has anyone ever put together a list of the historic aircraft that have been destroyed by non flying events like the San Diego Air and Space Museum fire, Weeks Museum hurricane, New England Air Museum tornado, or any other simliar events?

On the other side of it, is there any list of aircraft lost while flying? I am only looking for the aircraft that have not been "restored" back to flying condition after the accident.

I am not trying to start the debate of flying museum vs. static museums. I am looking for the hard numbers that might back up either side of that debate. I think we have all agreed to disagree that there are some aircraft that show not be flown, but that flying the less significant aircraft is important to pass on the history to the next generation outside of a static museum setting.

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P: Noise coming from under instrument panel. Sounds like a midget pounding on something with a hammer.

S: Took hammer away from midget.

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I'd like to see the same type of info/list of Museums that scrapped or ?? any Aircraft Engines they had. I have read some stories of engines saved from the museum scrap heap.

Add to the list the museum fire in France, which destroyed an F5/P38 formerly of the Pima Air Museum.

John

Florence Air and Missile Museum........
scrapped 1 RB-66
scrapped 1 NC-121K (nose section preserved)
scrapped 1 C-97 (nose seciton preserved)
scrapped 1 A-26K Invader

Florence SC, EC-121 partially scrapped, forward fuselage privately saved.

A-26K, oil tanks and engine QECs saved