Seen here on display in the Grahame White Factory hangar, the aircraft went to Cosford in July 2014. The orignal A8226, in service with C-Flight, No.45 Squadron, RFC, was shot down near Ypres, Belgium, on 27 May 1917, killing both crew.
After a long storage G-AMIV was bought at a car auction in 2005 and after a restoration first flown in 2010. In 2012 she was bought for the German Hangar10 collection as D-EDHA, but reverted to G-AMIV upon transfer to RAF Station Czechoslovakia in 2015.
N33827 was delivered to Argentina post war and became LV-XSG in 1947. She was stored between 1962 and 1986. First flight after restoration was in 2005 as LV-X246. As such she was aquired and arrived at Podhorany in 2019 before being registered G-CLHY.
“O’Reilly’s Daughter” at the Museum of Flight. It is painted in the markings of 1LT Philip E. Colman of the 26th FS, 5th FG, Chinese-American Composite Wing (CACW), which formed part of the 14th Air Force in the CBI theatre.
On display in the Caldwell Gallery is replica Pup N6460 in the colours of No. 3 (Naval) Squadron RNAS, which was flown by New Zealander Captain Harold Francis Beamish, DSC, during June and July 1917. Beamish survived the war with 11 victories.
NZ2336/TE910 is painted in honour of the crew of Mosquito FB.VI NT131/EG-D of No.487 (New Zealand) Squadron, F/O Ronald Beazer, RNZAF, and navigator P/O Andy Munro, RAFVR. During Classic Fighters 2023 she had both Merlin 25s running.
ZK-SPI made her first flight on the 18th of March 2009, in the hands of recently retired warbird pilot Keith Skilling. The ‘Al Deere’ Spitfire has graced the New Zealand skies ever since. PV270 is flown here at Omaka Classic Fighters by S/L Sean Perre
Imported in 1938 by the Hawkes Bay and East Aero Club, in May 1940, the 35W was impressed into RNZAF-service as NZ581. After a brief spell in civilian hands as ZK-AHJ, she was re-impressed as NZ598, serving with No.42 Squadron. Post war she became ZK-APJ.
BuNo 19075 under restoration at Yanks Air Museum. Visible is the 1,900 hp R-2600-20 Twin Cyclone radial engine, housing for 20mm cannon and the wide wheel track. The first USN squadron to fly the SB2C-1 in anger was VB-17 operating from USS Bunker Hill
This Corsair is being restored to airworthiness at Yanks Air Museum. Visible is the powerful Pratt & Whitney R-2800-18W radial engine. The F4U-4B variant was equipped with four 20mm cannon.