|
SURVIVING
AIRCRAFT TYPES
(click on aircraft name to see
further information)
|
TOTAL
NUMBER WORLDWIDE
|
PRESERVATION STATUS-------
|
SURVIVING AIRCRAFT WITH KNOWN FLEET AIR ARM HISTORY
-------------------
|
EXAMPLE
MUSEUM LOCATIONS
where
the type is preserved ---------------------------------------
|
NOTES
|
|
Vought-Sikorsky KINGFISHER
|
4
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
USS Alabama
Battleship Memorial Park (USA)
USS North
Carolina (USA)
National Air
& Space Museum (USA)
|
-
|
|
Avro LANCASTER
|
23
(+)
|
VULNERABLE
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft, although 4 French Fleet Air
Arm Lancasters have survived.
|
Imperial War Museum -
Duxford (UK)
Imperial War Museum - London
(UK)
Lincolnshire
Aviation Heritage Centre(UK)
Newark Air
Museum (UK)
RAF Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight (UK)
RAF Museum, Hendon (UK)
Australian War Memorial,
(Australia)
RAAFA
Aviation Heritage Collection Museum, Bull Creek (Australia)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(Canada)
Greenwood
Military Aviation Museum (Canada)
Nanton Lancaster
Society Air Museum (Canada)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
Toronto Aero Space Museum
(Canada)
Association Ailes
Anciennes-Le Bourget (France)
Museum of Transport
and Technology, MOTAT (NZ)
Fantasy of Flight, Florida
(USA)
|
The World's 23
Surviving Lancasters Only 16-17 of these famous aircraft survive
intact throughout the world.
NX 622 is
the only 4 naval Lancaster (Aeronavale French
FAA in 1952)
|
|
de Havilland LEOPARD MOTH
|
13
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Woodford
Collection (UK)
|
-
|
|
Westland LYSANDER
|
13
(+?)
|
ENDANGERED
|
Not known if
there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
RAF Museum - Hendon
(UK)
Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
(UK)
Woodford
collection (UK)
Musée Royal de l'Armée et d'Histoire
Militaire (Belgium)
Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum, Brandon (Canada)
Canadian Museum of Flight (Canada)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(Canada)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
USAF Museum (USA)
Fantasy of Flight Museum (USA)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Miles MAGISTER
|
16
(+?)
|
VULNERABLE
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
(UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
Woodley
Collection (UK)
Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire
Militaire, Brussels (Belgium)
|
16
Airframes Believed To Be Still In Existance
|
|
Miles
MARTINET
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Museum
of Berkshire Aviation (UK)
|
Martinet
Serial: MS902 the sole world survivor
|
|
Martin
MARYLAND
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
Not known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Miles MASTER
|
2
(+?)
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Miles
Aircraft-Collection (UK)
Real Aeroplane Museum (UK)
Dumfries
& Galloway Aviation Museum (UK)
|
-
|
|
MILES
M.18 TRAINER
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
MILES
M.20 FIGHTER
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
North American B25 MITCHELL
|
153+
|
NOT
THREATENED
|
Not
known if the single Mitchell (FR370) assessed by the Fleet Air Arm in
1943 has survived
A number of
USN Mitchells survive including at the Lone Star Flying Museum where its aircraft
is displayed as a PBJ-1J (Navy
designation).
|
Aces High
Flying Museum (UK)
The Fighter Collection (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
Australian
Heritage Aviation Centre, Darwin (Australia)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(Canada)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
Reynolds Air Museum
(Canada)
Cavanaugh Flight Museum (USA)
EAA Museum
Oshkosh (USA)
Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum (USA)
Lone Star Flying Museum (USA)
Mid Atlantic Air Museum (USA)
National Air
& Space Museum (USA)
National Naval Aviation Museum (USA)
New England Air Museum (USA)
Patriots Point
Naval & Maritime Museum (USA)
Strategic Air Command (SAC) Museum (USA)
USAF Museum (USA)
Valiant Air
Command Museum (USA)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Miles
MONITOR
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known Fleet Air Arm aircraft
|
-
|
-
|
|
de Havilland MOSQUITO
|
41
+?
|
LOWER
RISK
|
No complete surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft survive.
2 wings of 2 former RN aircraft remain
|
De Havilland
Aircraft Museum (UK)
Yorkshire Air Museum,
Elvington (UK)
RAF Aerospace Museum Cosford
(UK)
Imperial War Museum, Duxford (UK)
Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon (UK)
RAAF Museum (Australia)
Australian War Memorial Museum (Australia)
Calgary
Aerospace Museum (Canada)
Canada Aviation
Museum (Canada)
Beijing Military
Aircraft Museum (China)
MoTaT (New
Zealand)
RNZAF Museum (New Zealand)
South African
Museum of Military History
USAF Museum (USA)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
de Havilland MOTH
|
15+
|
VULNERABLE
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Blue Max Movie Aircraft Museum (UK)
Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
(UK)
Woodford
collection (UK)
National
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Swedish Air Force Museum (Sweden)
|
-
|
|
Beech NAVIGATOR
|
16+
|
VULNERABLE
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
(Also see Beech Expeditor)
|
Air Force Flight
Test Center Museum (USA)
8th Air Force Museum (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
March Field Museum (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation
(USA)
Pima Air & Space Museum (USA)
|
-
|
|
Hawker NIMROD
|
2+
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
1 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft. S1581
|
Historic Aircraft Collection
Jersey (UK)
Aero Vintage
Ltd (UK)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Hawker
OSPREY
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
No information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Airspeed OXFORD
|
6
(+?)
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
Midland Air Museum (UK)
RAF Museum,
Hendon (UK)
Royal Museum of the Army and Military
History Musée de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire, Brussels
(Belgium)
RNZAF Museum (New Zealand)
Taranaki
Aviation Transport and Technology Museum (New Zealand)
South African
Air Force Museum, Port Elizabeth Friends (South Africa)
|
RAF
Museum Oxford Airspeed AS.40 Oxford (MP425) - reputed the only
complete exhibit of its kind in the world.
|
|
Percival
PETREL Q.6
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Percival PROCTOR
|
17+
|
VULNERABLE
|
1 known Fleet Air Arm wartime survivor LZ766/G-ALCK
|
Lincolnshire
Aviation Heritage Centre (UK)
Thameside Aviation Museum (UK)
RAF Museum,
Hendon (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
Royal Museum of the Army and Military
History Musée de l'Armée et d'Histoire Militaire, Brussels
(Belgium)
|
-
|
|
de Havilland
PUSS
MOTH
|
6+
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
National Museums of Scotland Museum
of Flight (UK)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
|
-
|
|
De
Havilland
QUEEN BEE
|
1+
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
De Havilland
Aircraft Heritage Centre (UK)
|
Only
one Queen Bee known, and it does not have a FAA history.
(LF789/R2-K(BAPC.186))
|
|
Miles
QUEEN MARTINET
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Stinson RELIANT
|
121
(+?)
|
NOT
THREATENED
|
121 (+?) surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
Potentially
all Surviving Reliants are former Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Further
research needs to be undertaken.
|
Alberta
Aviation Museum Association (Canada)
Canadian Bushplane
Heritage Centre (Canada)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
Western Canada
Aviation Museum, Winnipeg (Canada)
Museu
Aeroespacial (Aerospace Museum), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum
(USA)
American Airpower Heritage Flying
Museum (USA)
Confederate Air Force
ghost squadron (USA)
Estrella Warbird Museum
(USA)
War Eagle Air
Museum (USA)
|
Potentially
all 121 Reliants are former Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Further research
needs to be undertaken. This would make this the most common of the
remaining aircraft with
known Fleet Air Arm history. None are preserved in the UK.
|
|
Blackburn RIPON
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Ripon IIF RI-140 at
Vesivehmaa (Finland) in storage
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Blackburn ROC
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Supermarine SEAFIRE
|
17
|
VULNERABLE
|
17 known surviving Fleet Air Arm wartime and post-war
aircraft.
|
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton
(UK)
History of
Burmese Air Force Museum, Meiktila Air Force Base, Meiktila (Burma)
Armed Forces
Museum, Myanmar, (Burma)
Naval Museum of Alberta, Calgary,
Alberta (Canada)
Polar Museum, Minnesota (USA)
Confederate Air
Force, American Airpower Heritage Museum (USA)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Fairey
SEAFOX
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Hawker SEA FURY
|
68
(+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
No known
surviving wartime Fleet Air Arm sea furies. Potentially
all 68 post war built sea furies have Fleet Air Arm, RCN, RAN, other
other Commonwealth naval air arm connections.
6 aircraft
are painted with Fleet Air Arm markings and codes.
|
Fleet Air Arm Museum (UK)
Royal Navy Historic Flight,
Yeovilton (UK)
Aces High
Flying Museum (UK)
Fighter Collection Duxford (UK)
Old Flying Machine (Air Museum)
Company (UK)
Australian War Memorial (Australia)
Museum of Flight - Naval Aviation
Museum (Australia)
Camden Museum
of Aviation (Australia)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
The Naval Museum of
Alberta (Canada)
Olympic Flight Museum (USA)
Valiant Air
Command (USA)
War Eagles Air Museum (USA)
|
All
aircraft were constructed post-war
|
|
Fairey
SEAL
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Curtiss
SEAMEW
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Supermarine
SEA OTTER
|
0
only
nose section survives
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Nose section survives of JN200
|
Museum of
Flight - Naval Aviation Museum (Australia)
|
Partial relict of JN200 survives
|
|
Blackburn SHARK
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Blackburn SKUA
|
2
incomplete
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
2 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft: Cockpit
and fuselage of L2910, and cockpit of L2940
|
Fleet Air Arm Museum (UK)
War Memorial Museum, Narvik (on loan
from Norsk Luftfartsmuseum,
Bodø)(Norway)
|
Restoration
of L2910 fuselage proposed by Norsk
Luftfartsmuseum, Bodø
|
|
Fairey
SPEARFISH
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Supermarine SPITFIRE
|
203
(-+?)
|
NOT
THREATENED
|
3 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft. K9942,
BL628, BL629
One
preserved in a museum: MK9942 Medway Aircraft Preservation Society
|
RAF Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight (UK)
Indian AF
Museum
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
Fighter Collection Duxford (UK)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
RAF Museum (UK)
Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
(UK)
Alpine Fighter
Collection, Wanaka (New Zealand)
Israeli AF
Museum
Medway Aircraft
Preservation Society (UK)
Dumfries &
Galloway Aviation Museum (UK)
Australian War Memorial Museum (Australia)
RAAF Museum,
Point Cook (Australia)
RNZAF Museum (New Zealand)
Musee de L’Air,
Le Bourget (France)
Malta War
Museum (Malta)
NASM,
Smithsonian Institute (USA)
South African
Museum of Military History (South Africa)
Athens War
Museum, Athens (Greece)
USAF Museum (USA)
History of
Burmese Air Force Museum (Burma)
|
Further
research required to confirm all Fleet Air Arm aircraft have been
identified
|
|
Fairey
SWORDFISH
|
17+?
|
VULNERABLE
|
13 known surviving Fleet Air Arm or RCN aircraft,
in addition 3 have unknown history and one served only with the RAF
See also Swordfish summary sheets
|
Royal Navy Historic Flight (UK)
Fleet Air Arm Museum -Yeovilton (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
Aero Space Museum Association of
Calgary (Canada)
Shearwater
Aviation Museum (Canada)
National Aviation Museum of Canada
(Canada)
Museum
of Transport and Technology (NZ)
National Air and Space Museum
(USA)
|
Four airworthy Swordfish - See details in the FAA
Archive 1939-45 PRESERVED SWORDFISH PAGE
|
|
Grumman TIGER
CAT
|
12
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Fighter Collection Duxford (UK)
Kalamazoo Air Zoo (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
National Naval Aviation Museum (USA)
Pima County Museum (USA)
USS Yorktown,
Charlestown, SC (USA)
|
The
Fighter Collection tiger cat Serial No. 80425 and registered N7235C, is
the only one of its kind in Europe and only one
of twelve still in existance worldwide.
|
|
de Havilland
TIGER
MOTH
|
397++
|
NOT
THREATENED
|
At least 7 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
FAA Museum, Yeovilton (UK)
Aircraft Restoration Company/British
Aerial Museum (UK)
De Havilland
Aircraft Heritage Centre, Mosquito Aircraft Museum (UK)
Imperial War Museum, Duxford
(UK)
Museum of Army Flying (UK)
RAF Museum, Hendon
(UK)
National Museums of Scotland Museum
of Flight (UK)
Shuttleworth
Collection, Old Warden (UK)
Ulster Folk and
Transport Museum (UK)
Woodford
collection (UK)
Australian Aviation
Museum, Bankstown (Australia)
Aviation Heritage Museum of Western
Australia, the Bull Creek Collection (Australia)
Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire
Militaire(Belgium)
British Columbia
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Canadian Museum of Flight
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(Canada)
Collingwood
Classic Aircraft Foundation (Canada)
Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum, Brandon (Canada)
Indian Air
Force museum (India)
Militaire Luchtvaart
Museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands)
Alpine Fighter Collection (NZ)
South African Air
Force Museum AFB Swartkop (South Africa)
Tiger Moth
Vintage aircraft Co (South Africa)
Cavanaugh Flight Museum (USA)
Colonial Flying Corps Museum (USA)
EAA Museum
Oshkosh (USA)
USAF Museum (USA)
Western Museum of Flight(SCHAF)(USA)
|
FULL
LIST OF ALL TIGER MOTHS IN THE HUNDREDS (see The de Havilland Moth Club)
T8191 (G-BWMK
was on the strength of the Royal Naval Historic Flight 1972-1994. sold
1994 to private owner in Welshpool. It was built in 1941 by Morris Motors
at Cowley and had a fairly long service career with both the Royal
Air Force and Royal Navy.
http://www.stringbag.flyer.co.uk
|
|
Beech TRAVELLER
|
100+
|
LOWER
RISK
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft. Many Fleet Air Arm
Beech Traveller's returned to the US and re-numbered
after the war. Research is required to see if any are still extant
|
National Air and Space Museum (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation,
Pensacola (USA)
Staggerwing Museum
(Tullahoma, USA)
United States Air Force Museum
(USA)
|
Research
required to see if other Fleet Air Arm Aircraft survive in the USA
|
|
Avro
TUTOR
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Shuttleworth Collection, Old Warden
(UK)
|
K3215
/ G-AHSA only example
|
|
Hawker TYPHOON
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
Brooklands
Museum (UK)
Imperial War Museum, Duxford
(UK)
Jet Age
Museum/Gloucestershire Aviation Collection (UK)
|
Only
only complete fuselage exists and 3 additional cockpits
|
|
Percival
VEGA GULL
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Vultee
VENGEANCE
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Lockheed VENTURA
|
9
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
RAF Museum
Cosford (UK)
RAAF Museum (Australia)
Museum of Transport
and Technology. MOTAT (NZ)
South African Air
Force Museum - AFB Ysterplaat (South Africa)
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
|
-
|
|
Supermarine WALRUS/SEAGULL
|
3
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
1 known surviving RAN aircraft. A2-4 a Mk V
Seagull served with HMAS Sydney prewar. No known surviving Fleet Air Arm
aircraft.
|
FAA Museum (UK)
RAAF Museum (Australia)
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Vickers
WELLINGTON
|
2
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Brooklands
Museum (UK)
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
|
Mk
T.10 (B.10) MF628 at RAF Museum (UK)
Wellington Mk I a N2980 at Brooklands Museum (UK)
|
|
Armstrong-Whitworth
WHITLEY
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Midland Air Museum (UK)
|
The
only substantial Whitley remains in existence BD232 (major fuselage
section)
|
|
Miles WHITNEY STRAIGHT
|
4
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
All
in private ownership
|
-
|
|
Grumman WIDGEON
|
81
wartime built
|
LOWER
RISK (wartime built)
|
4 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Museo Do Ar, Alverca do
Ribatejo (Portugal)
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
Pima Air & Space Museum (USA)
|
After
the war many FAA Widgeon were returned to the USN - a number have
survived. None are preserved in the UK.
Post War
some aircraft were converted to Super Widgeon configuration and still fly
commercially. Over 81 wartime built aircraft survive. Post war
constructed Widgeons have not been counted here
|
|
Grumman WILDCAT (Grumman MARTLET)
|
61
|
LOWER
RISK
|
7 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Fleet Air Arm Museum (UK)
The Fighter Collection (UK)
Imperial War Museum, Duxford
(UK)
Newark Air
Museum (UK)
RAF Museum Cosford (UK)
Royal Air Force Museum, Hendon (UK)
Ulster Aviation
Society Heritage Centre (Northern Ireland, UK)
American
Airpower Heritage Flying Museum/Confederate Air Force HQ (USA)
Dick Hansen Warbirds (USA)
EAA Museum
Oshkosh (USA)
Fantasy of Flight (USA)
Kalamazoo Air Zoo (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
NASM, Smithsonian (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
Olympic Flight Museum (USA)
Palm Springs Air Museum (USA)
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime
Museum/USS Yorktown (USA)
Planes of Fame (USA)
|
Not
known if other existing |
