A "one" aircraft museum question: What would you w

Robbo · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:41 pm

It would have to be this one

Because practical airworthy vintage aeroplanes don't come much older than this. This wonderful example has thrilled and educated thousands of people at the Shuttleworth Collection for many years and will continue to do so for many more.

Xrayist · **Joined:** Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:51 am **Posts:** 336

B-32
It would be the only one in existence on earth....(unless someone went and got the one on the moon).
Anyone who wanted to see one would only have this one place in the world to go.

Jerry O'Neill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 4:55 pm

I love it Robbo!
Jerry

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:31 pm

One aircraft! No way! You would need at least two! The show plane, and then the workhorse. Either a cargo or trainer, so to train the new guys in the museum.

If it was me (and they've already been said here) but:

Fighter: Corsair and SNJ

Bomber: B-24 and C-46

Dan Johnson II · **Joined:** Tue May 04, 2004 1:49 am **Posts:** 659

Just to be a bit different. I think it would be fun to build a museum around the B25 Mitchell.

If it's only one that I can have I think I'd want a C/D model. With that as the center piece, I'd hope to build sections around it for the different B25 Groups and the missions.

-Doolittle Raid
-North Africa
-5th AF and the Strafers
-Aleutians
-Italy
-Foriegn service with the RAF etc.
-Postwar and civil use

It could be fun

Jiggersfromsphilly · **Joined:** Fri Jun 17, 2005 3:15 pm **Posts:** 951

HE 177 Grief

kingpin · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:02 pm

Here in Evansville,Indiana it would have to be the mighty P-47 Thunderbolt.
The reason-- about 5500 were produced here in WW2 alot of people around here have ties to it..

Glen

n5151ts · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:12 pm

people would pay to see either one..and keep it flying!

Warbird Kid · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:14 pm

Dan your on to somthing there! But i say not 1 B-25 for the museum but like 5!

B-25B Doolitte Raider
B-25D North Africa "King 9"
B-25H Gun nose (Barbie III)
B-25J Gun nose (Wolf Head)

APG85 · **Posted:** Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:24 pm

A B-29... displayed next to the Titanic wreck. Everyone would come to see that :wink:

bfowlernj · **Joined:** Tue May 17, 2005 8:52 pm **Posts:** 21

(Transport) Me 323 Gigant: Large and brutish and it would require a large hanger/museum that I could also use to store many vintage VW Buses.

(bomber) B-36: Large and brutish and the storage requirement would be an even larger hanger/museum.

(fighter) YFM-1 Airacuda: A very large fighter...

kalamazookid · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 1:39 pm

Transport: C-47. You could have a small diorama around it showing vehicles that they transported, and have the interior open for tours. If it was a flyable example, you could also sell rides and maybe have day trips similar to what the Yankee Air Force does with their C-47.

Bomber: B-24. You could also get a nose section and use that for "open cockpit" sits. Plusl think of all the additional displays of turrets, bomb carts, etc. that could be used with it. Not to mention historical displays showing its use in the Pacific, Europe, Meditteranean, CBI, Ploesti Raids, etc.

Fighter: Corsair. Just because they're my favorite

lmritger · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:40 pm

Just one airplane?

This'll surprise some folks, but here goes:

North American B-25B 40-2344

That's Jimmy Doolittle's B-25, the first aircraft off of the Hornet on 18 April 1942, and having that one aircraft would allow the museum to focus on the most accomplished American aviator in history, James Doolittle. For all the outstanding achievements made throughout the last hundred years of flight, no one comes close to the volume OR magnitude of those marks set by Doolittle, and he deserves nothing short of a shrine.

Failing that, I'd settle for a TBD-1 from Midway.

Lynn

Roger Cain · **Posted:** Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:28 pm

I'd have to go with the Boeing PT "Stearman"

These planes were well known as pilot trainers both before we entered WWII and continued on to become the mainstay of crop dusters until Grumman got in the business, and today of course are restored as aerobatic performers, civilian rides, tour operations, and as warbird trainers, with a few modified to look like something else.

Its not the big expensive warbird, but probably one of the more recognizeable planes that most people familiar with aircraft can relate to in one way or another.

Simon Beck · **Joined:** Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:20 pm **Posts:** 137

I'd have a Fairchild C-82A Packet in the livery of "Arabco Oil"
from Flight of the Phoenix (1965) - as the Packet itself is my
no. 1 aircraft as is the film.

The C-82 was the first purpose built cargo aircraft for the
USA(A)F - a loading concept which is still in use today.
There were many in Latin America which had very colourful
careers and liveries.

Of course two additional hangars would be even better for
a C-119G and a C-123K, say of Air America....

Simon Beck

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