Warplanes of the USA: Curtiss C-46 Commando, USAAF, USAF

Curtiss C-46 Commando (USAAF Photo) Curtiss C-46 Commando (Serial No. 44-78108) with a partatrooper preparing to exit. Landing gear down. The Curtiss C-46 Commando is a low-wing, twin-engine aircraft derived from the Curtiss CW-20 pressurized high-altitude airliner design. Early press reports used the name “Condor III” but the Commando name was in use by early 1942 … Read more

Warplanes of the USA: Curtiss P-36 Hawk, USAAF

Curtiss P-36 Hawk 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

Warplanes of the USA: Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Tomahawk, and Kittyhawk, USAAC, USAAF

Curtiss P-40 Warhawks, Tomahawks and Kittyhawks 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

Warplanes preserved in the USA: Douglas A-26 Invader, USAAF

Douglas A-26 Invader 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

Warplanes preserved in the USA: Colorado: Colorado Springs, National Museum of World War II Aviation, USAAF, USN

Colorado Springs, National Museum of World War II Aviation, Colorado Springs Airport. (NMofWWIIA Photo) Aero L-39 Albatross (Serial No.). Beechcraft Super 18 (Serial No. ). E-18S. Sold worldwide as a civilian executive, utility, or cargo aircraft (and also sold as a passenger airliner with tailwheels, nose wheels, skis, or floats,) it was also used as a … Read more

Warplanes of the USA: Consolidated B-24 Liberator, USAAF

Consolidated B-24 Liberator 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

Warplanes of the USA: Consolidated PBY Catalina, US Navy, USAAF, USMC, USCG

Consolidated PBY Catalinas 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

Warplanes of the USA: Consolidated Vultee XP-81, USAAF

Consolidated Vultee XP-81 (USAF Photo) The Consolidated Vultee XP-81 (later redesignated ZXF-81) is a development of the Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation to build a single seat, long range escort fighter that combined use of both turbojet and turboprop engines. Although promising, the lack of suitable engines combined with the end of the Second World War doomed … Read more

Warplanes of the USA: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, USAAF

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

Warplanes of the USA: Boeing B-29 Super Fortress, USAAF

Boeing B-29 Super Fortress 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