Collection
The museum's collection of Japanese aircraft is the largest of its type in the world. This collection includes the only flying Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero fighter with its original Sakae engine and a Aichi D3A featured in the movie Tora Tora Tora.
Many other rare aircraft are maintained in flyable condition, such as a North American P-51A Mustang, a Northrop N9MB Flying Wing, a Boeing P-26A Peashooter, a Lockheed P-38J Lightning, and a Republic P-47G Thunderbolt.
Of the museum's approximately 150 aircraft, about 30 are flyable. Others are under restoration in the full-time restoration facility. They include:
- North American L-17A Navion
- B-17G, Piccadilly Lilly II
- Bell P-59A Airacomet
- Spanish-built Bf 109, a (Hispano Aviación HA-1112 “Buchon”)
- North American O-47
- Aichi D3A2 "Val"
- Grumman OV-1 Mohawk
Read more about this topic: Planes Of Fame Air Museum
Famous quotes containing the word collection:
“We’ll never know the worth of water till the well go dry.”
—18th-century Scottish proverb, collected in James Kelly, Complete Collection of Scottish Proverbs, no. 351 (1721)
“What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings—they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.”
—Norman Douglas (1868–1952)
“Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.”
—Valerie Solanas (b. 1940)