Warplanes of the USA: Ohio, Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, de Havilland Mosquito

Warplane Survivors USA: Ohio, Dayton, National Museum of the USAF: Hawker Hurricane, Supermarine Spitfire, de Havilland Mosquito

(USAAF Photos)

Hawker Hurricane with USAAF insignia.

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(NMUSAF Photos)

Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIa (Serial No. Z3174), XR-B.  This aircraft was built in Canada.  It is painted to represent an aircraft of RAF No. 71 (Eagle) Squadron, which was composed of American pilots that had volunteered to join the RCAF or the RAF beginning in September 1940 prior to US entry into the Second World War in Dec 1941.

(IWM Photo)

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. Vb of the USAAF 7th Photo Reconnaissance Group, Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, England, in 1944. Identified as “war weary”, this aircraft was being used as a squadron “hack.”

(IWM Photo)

Two Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk. V “War Weary” aircraft used as hacks, EN904 and AR404. Worn-out aircraft were declared War Weary when they had exceeded their airframe life and/or suffered damage which precluded them from being pushed to their original design limits safely.

(IWM Photo)

The USAAF 7th Photographic Reconnaissance Group operated the Spitfire Mark XI from Mount Farm, Oxfordshire, England. The Mark XI was a Mark IX airframe with all armament and armor removed and extra fuel and cameras added, optimized for high-altitude flight. This is PA944 with invasion stripes under the fuselage.

(USAAF Photo)

A Supermarine Spitfire fighter, in U.S. Army Air Force markings, which made a forced landing on the beach at Paesternum, South of Salerno, in September 1943.

(NMUSAF Photos)

(Goshimini Photo)

Supermarine Spitfire Mk. Vc, RAF (Serial No. MA863), HL-B, USAAF markings, representative of the "Operation Torch" landings in North Africa in 1942 as flown by the 31st Fighter Group, 308th Fighter Squadron. MA863 is an ex Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) fighter, (Serial No. A58-246).  This aircraft also served with RAF No. 54 Squadron in early 1944 as the personal mount of Sqn Ldr E. M. Gibbs wearing the codes DL-A.  This Spitfire later served with RAAF No. 452 Squadron, coded QY-F.  This Spitfire Mk. Vc (Trop) was built for Supermarine under license by Vickers-Armstrong in June 1943.  The museum acquired it from the Imperial War Museum in March 2000.

(IWM Photo)

de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk. XVI (Serial No. NS739), "Pamela", 25th Bomb Group.

(USAAF Photo)

de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk. XVI (Serial No. NS559), Valenciennes-Denain, France, 1945.

(NACA Photo)

de Havilland Mosquito B Mk. XX (Serial No. KB186), USAAF (Serial No. 43-34960), being tested byNACA at Langley Field.

(USAAF Photo)

de Havilland Mosquito PR Mk. XVI (Serial No. NS590), allocated to the 654th Bomb Squadron.

(BAE Systems Photo)

Canadian-built de Havilland F-8 Mosquito outside a Downsview, Ontario hangar in 1944.

(USAAF Photo)

de Havilland PR Mk. XVI Mosquito (Serial No. MM388), 25th Bomb Group, USAAF.

(USAAF Photo)

de Havilland Mosquito (Serial No. NS590), 654th Bomb Squadron, 8th Aur Force.

(USAAF Photo)

de Havilland Mosquito PRXVI MM388/H belonging to the 654th Bomb Squadron, 25th Bomb Group.

(Goshimini Photo)

(Valder137 Photo)

(NMUSAF Photo)

Supermarine Spitfire PR Mk. XI, RAF (Serial No. PA908).  This aircraft on display in the NMUSAF is painted in an overall photo-reconnaissance (PR) Blue colour scheme marked to represent one of the U.S. Army Air Forces' 14th Photographic Squadron of the 8th Air Force which operated Spitfire Mark XIs from November 1943 to April 1945, flying hazardous long-range reconnaissance missions over mainland Europe from Mount Farm airfield in England..  It was placed on display in the NMUSAF in 1993.  

This Spitfire was flown by RCAF Flt Lt John "Brick" Bradford operating in India during the Second World War.  The aircraft was discovered 40 years later as a derelict in India, when it was purchased and shipped to Canada.  The Canadian company that bought this Spitfire sold it to the NMUSAF in 1986.

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. XVIe, RAF (Serial No. TE330).  This aircraft was held in the NMUSAF from 1961 to 1995.  It went through several owners, was restored in New Zealand and is now in China, marked HT-B.

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