Warplane Survivors USA: Virginia, Virginia Beach, Military Aviation Museum

Virginia Beach, Military Aviation Museum

The Museum was founded by Gerald "Jerry" Yagen in 2005, and the museum's hangars were opened to the public in 2008.

Virginia Beach, Military Aviation Museum, 1341 Princess Anne Rd, Virginia Beach, VA 23457.  Jerry Yagen's Fighter Factory, Tidewater Tech, 240 Municipal Airport Road, Suffolk Municipal Airport, 23434.

Aichi D3A Val replica based on a Vultee BT-13A constructed for the movie Tora! Tora! Tora!

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Albatros D.Va, replica, c/n 0034, 1978, D.5397/17, Reg. No. N48UT.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Arado Entwurf 580 (Replica).

(SWAG Photo)

Avro 504K, Reg. No. H5991, airworthy replica.

(SWAG Photo)

Avro 504K (Serial No. P1341), replica, Reg. No. N504K, static display.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Beechcraft T-34A Mentor (Serial No. G778), Reg. No. N56NT.

(USAAF Photo)

Bell P-39 Airacobra firing all weapons at night.

Bell P-39F Airacobra (Serial No. 41-7215), which served with the USAAF 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group.  It crash landed in Australia on 1 May 1942.  It is painted to represent P-39Q (Serial No. 42-20341), a fighter which flew with the Soviet Union.  As of 26 Feb 2019, airworthy, New Zealand Reg. No. ZK-COB.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Bell P-63A-10-BE King Cobra (Serial No. 42-70609), "White 17".

(SWAG Photo)

Blériot XI, replica.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Blohm & Voss P 213 (Replica).

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Blohm & Voss P 214 ""Pulkzerstörer" (Bomber formation destroyer) (Replica).

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

BMW TLJ-2, Strahljäger Projekt II (Replica)

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Boeing P-26 Peashooter (Serial No.), replica, in the markings of the 94th Pursuit Squadron.

(Michael Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Boeing Stearman Model 75 Kaydet (Serial No. 75-2743), 1941, N2S-3, 743, USN, Reg. No. N4IEE.

(SWAG Photo)

(Joanna Poe Photos)

Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (Serial No. 44-8543), "Chuckie B", Reg. No. N3701G.  This aircraft is now the "Madras Maiden", with the Erickson Aviation Collection, Madras, Oregon.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Bücker Bü 133C Jungmeister (Serial No. 38), 1940.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

CASA 352L, 1949, ex-Spanish Air Force (Serial No. T2B-176), painted as Junkers Ju 52, coded 1Z+AR, Reg. No. N352JU.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (BuNo. 48294), Reg. No. N9521C.

Curtiss Pusher, replica.

Curtiss JN-4 (Serial No.).

(Michael Rehbaum Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk Mk. 1A, RAF (Serial No. ET573), USAAF (Serial No. 41-35918), Reg. No. N1941P.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth (Serial No. T5525), 1940, 25, Reg. No. N6463.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide, (Serial No. 6709), 1944, RAF colours, G-ADDD, Reg. No. N89DH.

(Aldo Bidini Photos)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito FB Mk 26, RCAF (Serial No. KA114), 1945, Canadian built, this aircraft is airworthy.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

de Havilland DHC-1 Chipmunk (Serial No. C1/0576), Reg. No. N559WK.

Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless (BuNo. 36175) on loan from the NNAM and being restored to airworthy condition.  This Dauntless was recovered from Lake Michigan in 1994.

Douglas A-24B Banshee project.

(wallycacsabre Photo)

Douglas A-26B Invader (Serial No. 41-39161), painted as (Serial No. 44-36874), Reg. No. N26RP.  8-gun version.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(Michel Rehbaum Photos)

(Aldo Bidini Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Douglas AD-4 Skyraider (BuNo. 123827), 501, Reg. No. N23827.

(SWAG Photo)

Ely-Curtiss Pusher, replica, Reg. No. N44VY.

Fairchild PT-19A-FA (Serial No. 42-83643), (T43-7230), "Black 129".

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Fiat G-46-3B, c/n 141, Reg. No. N46FM.

(SWAG Photo)

Fieseler Fi-156 Storch (Serial No. 751), Reg. No. N42FM.  Moraine Saulnier MS-500 Criquet (France) wings, German fuselage.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Fieseler Fi 103, V-1 flying bomb (Vergeltungswaffe 1, Fieseler Fi 103).  Discovered intact in a tunnel in Poland after German reunification in 1989.  Fully functional and the only one known which retains its radio homing device.

Fleet 2 (Serial No. 29Y).  In storage.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Focke-Wulf Fw 44J Stieglitz (Serial No.), "Hauptman Boelcke", Reg. No. N183FW, D-2692.

(Joanna Poe Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 (Wk. Nr. 550479), new-build, airworthy replica.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8, c/n 005, new-build with Russian engine, Reg. N190BR.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8 being restored.  "Blue 4", (Werk Nr. 732183), was built in July-August 1944, and was lost on 9 Feb 1945, defending German occuppied Norway against an Allied air raid.  It was recently recovered from where it had crashed.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9 (Werk Nr. 210079), Black 12, new-build Flugwerk replica, Reg. No. N263TB.

(SWAG Photo)

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Fokker Dr.I (Serial No. 001TP), replica No. 1, Reg. No. N900TP.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Fokker Dr.I (Serial No. ZN-1 07), replica, Reg. No. N917RB.

(SWAG Photo)

Fokker Dr.I, replica No. 2, Reg. No. N417RB.

(SWAG Photo)

Fokker Dr.I, replica No. 3, Reg. No. N425BT.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Fokker Dr.I, replica No. 4, Reg. No. N757FK.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Fokker D.VI (Serial No. 2620), replica, Reg. No. N29WR.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

Fokker D.VII, replica, 1978, Reg. No. N14TJ.

(SWAG Photo)

Fokker D.VII, replica, 1990, Reg. No. N1918P.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Fokker D.VII, c/n 1, replica, Reg. No. N1918F.

(SWAG Photo)

Fokker D.VIII, replica, Reg. No. N8105D.

(SWAG Photo)

Fokker C.I (Serial No.), replica, Reg. No. N817BP.

(SWAG Photo)

Grumman/General Motors (Eastern) FM-2 Wildcat (BuNo. 47030).  (F4F).

(Joanna Poe Photo)

Grumman/General Motors (Eastern) TBM-3E Avenger (BuNo. 53454), Reg. No. N7030C.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(Michel Rehbaum Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Goodyear FG-1D Corsair (BuNo. 92508), Reg. No. N46RL.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Halberstadt CL.IV, replica, Reg. No. N6175J.

(SWAG Photo)

Hawker Fury (Serial No. K1930), Reg. No. N31FY.  Airworthy replica with some original parts and an original Kestrel engine.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Hawker Hurricane Mk. XIIB, RCAF (Serial No. 5667), c/n 56022, coded DZ-O, built in Canada in 1943.  Reg. No. N943HH.  Twelve .303-inch machine-guns.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Hütter Hü 136 Dive Bomber (Replica).

(SWAG Photo)

Laister-Kauffman TG-4A (Serial No. 126), tandem 2-seat sailplane, Reg. No. N51462.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Lavochkin La-9 Fritz (Serial No.), c/n 828, "White 28", Reg. No. N415ML.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Lippisch P.13a (Replica).

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 108 Taifun (Serial No. 258), Nord N1002 Pengouin, Yellow 4, Reg. No. N108ZZ.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Messerschmitt Bf 208 (enlarged Bf 108) with retractable tricycle landing gear, built as a Nord 1100 in 1946, "Yellow 14".

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 (Serial No. 2023).  Being restored in Russia from five wrecks with E-3 and E-7 parts.  To be restored as a G variant.

Messerschmitt (Hispano HA-1112-M1L Buchón C.4K-64) Bf 109G-4 "Black 1", ex-D-FOOM, Reg No. N109GY, converted to accomodate a Daimler-Benz DB605 engine.  Airworthy.

Messerschmitt Me 262/B-1c Schwalbe (Serial No. 501243), new-build replica, "White 3".

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Messerschmitt Me-328 (Replica).

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-3 (Serial No.), "White 17".

(SWAG Photo)

Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 Yellow Peril floatplane (BuNo. 2892), Reg. No. N120BH.

(SWAG Photo)

Nieuport 11 (Serial No. 680), replica, Reg. No. 892.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Nieuport 17, replica, Reg. No. N1918C/42.

(Joanna Poe Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

(Michael Rehbaum Photo)

North American B-25J-25/27-NC Mitchell (Serial No. 44-30129), “Wild Cargo”, Reg. No. N7947C.

(Joanna Poe Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

North American P-51D-25NA Mustang (Serial No. 44-72483), painted as (Serial No. 44-63684), ex-Swedish Air Force, “Double Trouble Two”, Reg. No. N51EA.

(SWAG Photo)

(Michael Rehbaum Photo)

North American SNJ-2 Texan, USN, (Serial No. 2011), Reg. No. N55729.

(SWAG Photo)

North American SNJ-4 Texan (Serial No. 26939), Reg. No. N43NA.

(USAAF Photo)

North American P-64, replica (NA-28), based on an SNJ-4.  Similar in appearance to the P-64 shown above, ca 1942.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

North American T-28D Trojan (Serial No. 49-1634), Reg. No. N99160.  Airworthy.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Piper J3C-65 (Serial No. 3196), "Glimpy", USN colours, Reg. No. N23464.

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Polikarpov Po-2 Mule (Serial No. 0717), Reg. No. N3602.  Being restored to flying status.

(SWAG Photo)

Polikarpov I-15bis (Serial No. 3994), Reg. No. N3815R.  Being restored to flying status.  (30% original parts, 70% restoration).  Possibly the only survivor.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

Polikarpov I-153 (Serial No. 6316).  Derivative of the I-15.

(Michel Rehbaum Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Polikarpov I-16 Rata (Serial No. 2421028), White 28, Reg. No. N1639P.  1939.  Being restored to flying status.

Polikarpov I-53RP Chaika (Serial No. 6316).  Being restored to flying status.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Radioplane Q-19D Target Drone.

(SWAG Photo)

Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5, Reg. No. N640DH, 72, on loan.

(SWAG Photo)

Ryan PT-22 Recruit (Serial No. 717), Reg. No. N56081.

Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly, US Coast Guard, ca 1948.  (USCG Photo)

Sikorsky S-51 Dragonfly (Serial No.).  On loan to a helicopter museum in Richmond.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Sopwith Camel (Serial No. B2634), replica, Reg. No. N2346.

(SWAG Photo)

Sopwith 1-½ Strutter, replica, Reg. No. N4088H.

(Tomás Del Coro Photos)

Sopwith 1-½ Strutter c/n 002, replica, Reg. No. N1914S.

Sopwith Pup, ca 1917.  (Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3391007)

Sopwith Pup, ¾-scale replica.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Sopwith Triplane replica c/n 6, 1991, Reg. No. N543A.

(SWAG Photo)

SPAD XIII (Serial No. 7689), “Smith IV”, Reg. No. S7689.  Arthur Raymond Brooks, 22nd Aero Sqn.

(SWAG Photo)

Stinson L-5E Sentinel (Serial No. 3786), Reg. No. N57WT.

(Aldo Bidini Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

(Michael Rehbaum Photo)

Supermarine Spitfire LF Mk. IXe, RAF (Serial No. MJ730), CBAF 7243, Reg. No. N730MJ.  Service in North Africa, Malta, Czechoslovakia and the UK – may have a record of 5 kills while flown by a number of different pilots.

Vought OS2U-1 Kingfisher in flight.  (USN Photo)

Vought OS2U Kingfisher (Serial No.).  Wreckage recovered from a crash site.  Parts stored in a box in the barn.

Vought F4U Corsair formation flight.  (USN Photo)

Vought F4U Corsair (BuNo. unknown).  Reg. No. unknown.

(Joanna Poe Photo)

(SWAG Photo)

Waco YMF-5 (Serial No.), airworthy replica.

(Tim Evanson Photo)

Wright Model B (Serial No.).  Vin Fiz replica being restored at Owl’s Head, Maine.

Wright Model EX, replica, 2003.

Yakovlev Yak-3, ca 1944, USSR.  (San Diego Air & Space Museum Photo)

Yakovlev Yak-3, ca 1944, USSR.  (Soviet Air Force Photos)

(SWAG Photo)

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Yakovlev Yak-3M (Serial No. 0470103), Reg. No. N42YK.  Airworthy replica.

Yakovlev Yak-55 (Serial No.).  Built in 1955, this aircraft is disassembled and stored in a hangar.

(Tomás Del Coro Photo)

Zeppelin "Fliegende Panzerfaust" (Replica).

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