Flying Heritage Collection

February, 2015

Flying Heritage Collection is Paul Allen's museum at Paine Field in Everett, Washington.  Most of the aircraft in it are flying aircraft (note the pads and pans under various aircraft to catch oil drips).  Many of the planes are WWII veterans with known flight history, and many are rare aircraft.

Hurricane XIIA.

Il-2M3.  This one saw combat with the Finns, who shot it down.

F6F-5 (unfortunately, my cell-phone camera having problems with focus in the glare). 

The back of the F6F.

A Bf 109E-3 with engine out for work.  This one fought against the British in 1940, flown by Eduard Hemmerling, including on his last, fatal mission.

B-25J.

Spitfire Vc.  This is a combat veteran flown by Tomas Vybiral, Squadron Leader of 312 Squadron -- a Czech squadron.

Front fuselage of a Lancaster BI.

Cockpit of the Lancaster.

FW 190D-13 (only D-13 in the world).  It was flown by Major Franz Götz, Commodore of JG26.

I-16 type 24.  This one fought against the Finns, who shot it down.

FW 190A-5 (only original still flying).  This one, from JG54, fought against the Soviets.

Wreck of a Zero.

A6M3.  From Babo Airfield, New Guinea.

Ki-43 (only flyable Ki-43 in world).  From Rabaul.

Lt. Harrison B. "Bud" Tordoff's P-51D.  (Tordoff is a fellow University of Michigan Wolverine who flew P-47's then this P-51.)

Storch.  A war veteran used on the Eastern Front.

P-40C, flown in combat by a Soviet.  Only flying P-40C in world.

P-47D.

Japanese machinegun and cannon.

German cannon and a machinegun.

Nice R-2800 cutaway.

Zero engine from a wreck.

White Knight (carried SpaceShipOne on its record flight).

Me 163B.

V-1.

Manned version of V-1.

V-2.

M4A1 Sherman.

T-34/85.

Jagdpanzer 38(t).  This thing is *really* small compared to the Sherman and T-34.