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Hellcat
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What significant WWII aircraft examples no longer exist? Or should I say no longer exist that are fully, or close to fully restored examples. My partial list:

1. Betty bomber
2. Val dive bomber
3. Kate torpedo bomber
4. I believe a few RAF bombers

It would be nice to have at least ONE example of every significant aircraft of WWII on display somewhere in the world.

Your list?
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I am pretty sure several Kate and Vals survive.

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POF has a Val which is essentially complete and was flyable at one time.
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Is the POF Val real or is it a Tora Bird- I too thought that only a few really smashed up examples (one I think at Nimitz Musuem) survived.
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There is a Finnish Buffalo (B-239) recovered in Russia being restored at Pensacola.

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Is the POF Val real or is it a Tora Bird- I too thought that only a few really smashed up examples (one I think at Nimitz Musuem) survived.


POF's Val is a real Val with a B-25 QEC engine set-up for power.
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There is a Finnish Buffalo (B-239) recovered in Russia being restored at Pensacola.

It's now back in Finland! :D
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Hellcat wrote:
What significant WWII aircraft examples no longer exist? Or should I say no longer exist that are fully, or close to fully restored examples. My partial list:

1. Betty bomber
2. Val dive bomber
3. Kate torpedo bomber
4. I believe a few RAF bombers

It would be nice to have at least ONE example of every significant aircraft of WWII on display somewhere in the world.

Your list?


As to the Betty, probably correct in that none may be complete & in a museum. Trust me when I say that I was given a DVD last Sept. by an Aussie working on Guadalcanal that had a couple of photos of a pretty complete Betty fuselage in the jungle in PNG. I'm not at liberty to post it until I can get an OK from him and we've not been in contact for a few months.
Last thing I want to do here is start a wild argument, but there are at least some Betty remains left in the world.
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Mike wrote:
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There is a Finnish Buffalo (B-239) recovered in Russia being restored at Pensacola.

It's now back in Finland! :D


Mike is right, the NMNA has put it on loan to a museum in Finland.

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