RapidFireWeb California Warplanes, Riverside, March Field Air Museum Riverside, March Field Air Museum, March Air Reserve Base, 22550 Van Buren, 92518. (951) 902-5949. Located just off Highway I-215. Open Tuesday to Sunday 9 AM to 4 PM. (Alan Wilson Photo) Vultee BT-13A Valiant modified to represent a Japanese D3A1 Val, (Serial No. BI-211), Douglas EA-1E Skyraider … Read more
California Warplanes China Lake, US Naval Museum of Armament & Technology, Naval Warfare Center China Lake, Ridgecrest, 93556-0217, located at 1 Pearl Harbor Way, on the East end of Blandy Ave. (760) 939-3530. The museum preserves and displays many unique achievements in naval air and surface armament and technology. Entrance into the Museum is free. … Read more
California Warplane Survivors Acampo, Lodi Parachute Center. (Bernd das Brot Team Photo) Douglas DC-3 (Serial No.). Alameda (Alan Wilson Photo) (kb7ywl Photo) Douglas A-4C Skyhawk (BuNo. 148610), USMC, mounted on a pylon in front of Encinal High School. Alameda Naval Air Museum, 2151 Ferry Point Road, 94501. (510) 522-4262. The historic legacy of the Alameda … Read more
Bell X-5 (USAF Photo) The Bell X-5 was the first aircraft capable of changing the sweep of its wings in flight. It was inspired by the untested wartime P.1101 design of the German Messerschmitt company. In contrast with the German design, which could only have its wing sweepback angle adjusted on the ground, the Bell engineers … Read more
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the USA. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here are by the … Read more
Boeing XPBB-1 Sea Ranger (Boeing 344) The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the USA. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here are … Read more
Boeing XF8B Five-In-One Fighter (USN Photo) The first XF8B (BuNo. 57984) on a test flight along with a piggyback flight engineer hunched over behind the pilot. Note the two separate exhaust stacks in the cowling and the four stacks behind the cowling. The Boeing XF8B (Model 400) was a single-engine aircraft developed by Boeing during the … Read more
Historic Photos of California Warplanes (Bill Larkins Photos) Douglas O-38E, California National Guard. ca 1939. (USAAF Photo) North American Mustang Mk. IA (Serial No. 41-37416)on a test flight from NAA’s Inglewood, California facility in October 1942. (USAAF Photo) North American NA-73 Mustang Mk. I, RAF (Serial No. AL958) being test-flown at Inglewood, California, in October … Read more
Boeing XB-15 (USAAC Photo) Boeing XB-15 (Serial No. 35-277). The Boeing XB-15 (Boeing 294) was a United States bomber aircraft designed in 1934 as a test for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to see if it would be possible to build a heavy bomber with a 5,000 mi (8,000 km) range. For a year … Read more
Brewster SB2A-4 Buccaneer The aim of this website is to locate, identify and document Warplanes from the Second World War preserved in the USA. Many contributors have assisted in the hunt for these aircraft to provide and update the data on this website. Photos are as credited. Any errors found here are by the author, … Read more
