Messerschmitt Me 262

Messerschmitt Me 262

ME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre TouzeauME262 © Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous image Next image History of the replica:Construction of 5 replicas of this type began in the USA in 1993, using fragments of drawings and an original two-seater trainer aircraft as a prototype. All the parts had to be built from scratch, and no original parts were used.Equipped with modern engines and modern avionics made in the USA, the first of these replicas made its maiden…
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Hawker Fury Mk.II, G-CBEL

Hawker Fury Mk.II, G-CBEL

© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous image Next image The Hawker Fury FB.11 is a British fighter aircraft designed and manufactured by Hawker. It was the last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, and one of the fastest production single piston-engined aircraft ever built. Developed during the Second World War, the Fury entered service two years after the war ended. The Fury proved to be a popular aircraft with a number of overseas militaries, and was used during the Korean War in the early 1950s,…
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P-51D, “MISS STRESS”, N4034S

P-51D, “MISS STRESS”, N4034S

© Philipp Prinzing© Philipp Prinzing© Philipp Prinzing Previous Next This Mustang was built in 1944 with the serial 44–63889 was assigned to the 318th Fighter Squadron in 1944 and thus belonged to the well-known ‘Checkertail Clan’ of the 325th Fighter Group. Stationed on the Italian mainland at Lesina Airfield, approximately 57 km north of Foggia. The 318th Fighter Squadron, together with the other squadrons of the 325th Fighter Group, flew bomber escorts from Russian bases against Romanian airfields. The clan escorted heavy bombers that attacked either petroleum processing plants in Romania or synthetic fuel plants across Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria or Hungary. Unfortunately, nothing…
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P-51D, “Frances Dell”, N51ZW

P-51D, “Frances Dell”, N51ZW

Previous Next This Mustang with the serial number 44–74453 was manufactured at the North American Aviation Plant Inglewood, California in 1944. Built close to the end of the war, it has not seen any wartime activity and was stored by the United States Army Air Forces until 1950, when it was sold to the Royal Canadian Air Force. It was in service with the RCAF until 1959 when it was once again sold to a private civilian owner in the US.From then on, it had different owners and was painted as ‘Glamorous Gal’ until 2011, when the plane was damaged…
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B-17 Flying Fortress

B-17 Flying Fortress

© Dan Hagan© Tom Hill© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous image Next image Built as a Boeing B-17G-105-VE c/n 8693, the future Sally B was one of the last to be constructed by the Lockheed-Vega plant at Burbank, California. Accepted by the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) as 44-85784 on June 19 1945 it was too late to see war service, and was flown to Nashville for modifications. Converted for training purposes and re-designated TB-17G, it was based at Wright Field (now Wright-Patterson AFB), Ohio from November that year. Continuing in the care of 2750th Air Base Group (ABG),…
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Aeronca L-3B, F-AYTH

Aeronca L-3B, F-AYTH

© Xavier Méal© Xavier Méal© Xavier Méal© Xavier Méal© Xavier Méal© Xavier Méal Previous Next The L-3B is one of the four types of light observation aircraft that operated during the Second World War.Very similar to the famous Piper L-4, and with an identical engine, it is however slightly more powerful and of a slightly more sophisticated construction. This is logical as Piper was looking for economy on the Ford T model. The L-3 was flown from the front seat in solo mode, unlike the L-4.In 1943, the first observation aircraft made available to the Free French by the American…
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Yak 3, F-AZOS

Yak 3, F-AZOS

© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Xavier Meal© Jean-Pierre TouzeauMichel Defaye© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous image Next image The F-AZOS is a reconstruction of a YAK 3 VK107, in the colours of pilot Marcel Albert, the most successful pilot of the Normandy Niemen Squadron, who was present throughout the campaign, from the creation of the group in December 1942 until the end of the war.He returned to France with his YAK 3 offered by Stalin.Michel, its owner and presenter, was born in Haute Volta, in the Sahel, where he contemplated the vultures gliding without getting tired,…
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FOUGA CM.175 ZÉPHYR, F-AZFP

FOUGA CM.175 ZÉPHYR, F-AZFP

  © Cocardes Marine   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous Next The Fouga CM-175 Zephyr is a two-seat tandem military trainer that served in the French naval aviation service from 1959 to 1994. It was developed from the Fouga CM-170 Magister, from which it differs in some respects:1 It was developed from the Fouga CM-170 Magister, from which it differs in some respects: - a landing hook, two catapult hooks; - structural reinforcements; - Reinforcement of the landing gear with over-inflation of the front shock absorber;…
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DH 100 MK 6 Vampire, F-AZOO

DH 100 MK 6 Vampire, F-AZOO

  © Jean-Pierre Touzeau   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau   © Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous Next The De Havilland Vampire, also known as the DH 100, is the second military jet built by the UK. It entered service just after the Second World War and has the particularity of being equipped with a double-beam rear fuselage, made of wood. More than 4,500 were built, some under licence, and used by about 25 different countries until the 1980s.
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Curtiss P-40F Warhawk, G-CGZP

Curtiss P-40F Warhawk, G-CGZP

© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau© Jean-Pierre Touzeau Previous Next The Fighter Collection’s Merlin-engined P-40F is one of only two left airworthy anywhere in the world. Manufactured at the Curtiss facility in Buffalo, New York in the autumn of 1942 and allocated Bu No. 41-19841. She was delivered by land to the Stockton In-Transit Depot in California for onward shipment in November, where she was then shipped to the Thirteenth Air Force in the Southwest Pacific on Christmas Eve 1942. Unfortunately, her service career remains a mystery, but the only P-40Fs to see combat in the Pacific Theatre were flown by…
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