Curtiss Jennys

[Pat Carry]

Where can a person see an original Curtiss Jenny these days?

[KenH]

The Golden Age Air Museum in Bethel, Pa (Grimes Field) has a beautifully restored flying Jenny.

www.goldenageair.org

http://goldenageair.org/collection/1918jenny.htm

Ken

[airknocker]

Here are known flying Jennies, there are numerous static display.

Golden Age, as Kenh said
http://www.ohtm.org/
http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/
http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/
http://www.pioneerflightmuseum.org/
http://www.waaamuseum.org/
and some that are operated by individuals:
http://www.sonomavalleyairport.com/
and an excellent restoration to fly in Georgia:
http://curtissjennyrestoration.blogspot.com/

[coastdef]

There is a little known airworthy Jenny in Wichita Falls, TX...

http://www.month-ntx.org/index_files/the_jenny.htm

Regards,

Andy

[The Inspector]

MoF in Seattle has had one on display for 25 years that's never been covered so you can admire the cabinet grade wood work and P. Allens collection @ KPAE has a March Field JN that gets flown about once a year and is always on display.

[JBoyle]

Here's a list some of us over at the FlyPast forum came up with a year or two ago...

JN-4C
C227 Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
C308 Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas
C496 Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, St. Louis
C1122 Skeeter Carlson, Spokane, Washington State (high degree of originality)
1898 ????
4048 Anthony Morozowsky, Zanesville, Ohio (serial number indicates a JN-4D?)
10875 John Shue, York, Pennsylvania
39158 National Air Museum?
56618 ???? [CHECK IF GENUINE]
‘C-AAI’ Reynolds-Alberta Museum, (“80 % genuine”)
???? Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, New York State (barn find restoration) Ex-Lindbergh
???? Tiger Boys Aeroplane Works & Flying Museum, Guelph, Ontario

JN-4D
D-51 Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California (displayed with canvas stripped)
278 Sold to??
396 San Diego Aerospace Museum
400??? James Smith, Fortine, Montana
450 Kenneth Hyde, on loan to Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, Virginia
490 Sold to?? [CHECK IF GENUINE]
A995 US Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Florida
A996 Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, California
1321 Franklin Root, Staunton, Virginia
1350 Warp Pioneer Villiage Museum, Minden, Nebraska
2421 Chicago Museum of Science & Industry (question mark whether this is genuine or a replica)
2525 owner unknown, Indiana
2780 US Museum of Army Aviation, Ozark, Alabama
2805 NMUSAF, Dayton Ohio
2844 ????
3233 ????
3229 Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas [DUPLICATE?]
3712 Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington State
3973 John Johnson, Edmonton, Alberta
4904 EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (composite of parts including wing from 5357 and JN-4A fuselage parts)
4983 NASM, Washington Dulles
5002 Hill Aerospace Museum, Utah (rebuilt)
5086 Glenn H Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York (under restoration)
5360 Kermit Weeks, Polk City, Florida (very original but badly damaged)
5361 Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia
6062 Paul Dougherty, Bethel, Pennsylvania (under restoration at Golden Age Air Museum?)
8047 Paul Dougherty, Bethel, Pennsylvania (under restoration at Golden Age Air Museum?)
33779 Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia
34091 Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California?
34094 Owls Head Transportation Museum, Maine
???? Museum of Flight, Seattle (little original material remaining)
???? US Army Center for Military History, on loan to College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, Maryland (barn find restoration)
???? Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
???? Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California (on display)
???? Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California (in store)

JN-4H
3919 Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome, New York State (composite aircraft)
8644 Frank Schelling, Schellville, California

JN-4HG
A4160 National Museum of the US Marine Corps, Quantico, Virginia

Yet to classify:
Not known? Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia (2 No. kits of parts: JN-4C & JN-4D components)
???? Aero Vintage Ltd, currently at AJD Engineering, Sudbury
???? Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos, California
???? Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, California
???? Fairbanks International Airport, Alaska
???? Denver International Airport

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[Pat Carry]

Thanks for that list. I actually had no idea there were that many still around.

[JBoyle]

They made thousands, I'm sure more are out there.
As an example, at our local GA field, there are 2-3 Standard J-1 projects.
They range fom a semi complete airframe to just paperwork and a box full of metal fittings. Since for an airwothy restoration, you'll need new wood, it really doesn't matter how much of the original plane is left.
If you're talking static..that's another story and you'll want 1918 wood.

Yep, there is plenty of old stuff out there...

[JBrawner]

here is the one from hill aerospace in utah

[Matt Gunsch]

Great site about a restoration of a Jenny
http://curtissjennyrestoration.blogspot.com/

[mazdaP5]

There is one painted like a fish hanging in the Henry Ford in Dearborn Mi.

[262crew]

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