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SURVIVING
AIRCRAFT TYPES
(click on aircraft name to see
further information)
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TOTAL
NUMBER WORLDWIDE
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PRESERVATION STATUS-------
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SURVIVING AIRCRAFT WITH KNOWN FLEET AIR ARM HISTORY
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EXAMPLE
MUSEUM LOCATIONS
where
the type is preserved ---------------------------------------
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NOTES
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|
Fairey ALBACORE
|
only
1
survives
worldwide
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
The sole example is a former RN aircraft
|
FAA Museum (UK)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Avro ANSON
|
30
(+?)
|
VULNERABLE
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Vintage Aircraft
Restorers
Museum of Flight East Fortune (UK)
Gloucestershire
Aviation Collection (UK)
North East
Aircraft Museum (UK)
Newark Air Museum (UK)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(Canada)
Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum, Brandon (Canada)
Aviation Heritage Museum of Western
Australia
RNZAF museum (New Zealand)
|
This
list includes all known European preserved examples
Avro Anson
NK950 of FAA became VH-ARL in 1946 (Australia) still extant?
|
|
Hawker AUDAX
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
AeroVintage
Ltd (UK)
|
Audax G-BVVI the sole survivor was not an
RN aircraft
|
|
Taylorcraft AUSTER
|
45
(+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Aircraft Restoration Company/British
Aerial Museum (UK)
Army Air Corps
Historic Aircraft Flight (UK)
Military Auster Flight/Museum of Army Flying (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
Flypast
Museum, Oakey (Australia)
Royal Museum of the Army and Military
History(Belgium)
Militaire
Luchtmacht Museum, Soesterberg
(NL)
Museo
Do Ar, Alverca do Ribatejo (Portugal)
|
Auster TJ651 of the FAA still extant as
G-APIC in 1952. Current status unknown
|
|
Grumman TBF AVENGER (TARPON)
|
74
(+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
3 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Dundonald Aviation Centre (UK)
Fleet Air Arm Museum (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
The American Air Museum,
Duxford (UK)
The
Squadron, North Weald (UK)
Flying Legends
Collection (AUS)
Atlantic Canada
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Reynolds-Alberta aviation
collection (Canada)
Israeli Air
Force Museum (Israel)
Gisborne
Aviation Preservation Society (NZ)
Museum of Transport
and Technology. MOTAT (NZ)
RNZAF museum (NZ)
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
(USA)
Confederate Air Force (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
National Warplane Museum (USA)
Planes of Fame Air Museum (USA)
Pima Air & Space Museum (USA)
Quonset
Air Museum (USA)
USS Lexington Museum (USA)
Weeks Aviation Museum (USA)
|
JZ569
787 flew into grd Holbeach
range, nr Sutton bridge 5.8.44 lt AJ Dundas killed. Parts recovered from
Sutton bridge marshes 1976.
No
information on other unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Avro
652
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Martin
BALTIMORE
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Fairey
BARRACUDA
|
0 extinct
but
partial wrecks exist
|
EXTINCT
|
At least 2 wrecks of former FAA aircraft survive
|
FAA Museum (UK)
|
No information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Fairey
BATTLE
|
3
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
RAF Museum, Hendon
(UK)
National Aviation Museum
(Canada)
Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, (Belgium)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Bristol BEAUFIGHTER
|
4
complete
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Midland Air Museum (UK)
RAF Museum, Hendon
(UK)
Museum of Flight , East Fortune (UK)
National Aviation Museum
(Canada)
Fighter Collection Duxford (UK)
Museo
Do Ar, Alverca do Ribatejo (Portugal)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Bristol
BEAUFORT
|
2
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
The Fighter Collection (UK)
RAF Museum (UK)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Brewster SB2A BERMUDA
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
To USN Pensacola from Naval Air Warfare
Center (USA)
|
-
|
|
Bristol BLENHEIM (BOLINGBROKE)
|
13
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
British Aerial Museum,
Duxford (UK)
RAF Museum, Hendon
(UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
Museum of Flight - East Fortune (UK)
Hellenic Air Force
Museum (Greece)
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum, Brandon (Canada)
Nanton
Lancaster Society & Air Museum (Canada)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (Canada)
Quebec Air and Space Museum (Canada)
|
Thirteen
are known to be in museum collections around the world. No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Douglas
BOSTON
|
3
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Douglas
Boston-Havoc UK Preservation Trust
RAAF Museum (Australia)
USAF Museum (USA)
|
-
|
|
Brewster
BUFFALO
|
0 complete examples, one wreck
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Vought-Sikorsky CHESAPEAKE
|
Total
1 (+?)
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
|
-
|
|
Curtiss
CLEVELAND
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Chance-Vought CORSAIR
|
Total
71 (+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
5 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Fleet Air Arn
Museum (UK)
The Fighter Collection (UK)
Old Flying
Machine Company/Breitling Fighters (UK)
MOTAT (New Zealand)
Museum Buenos
Aires (Argentina)
TAM Air Museum,
Americana (Brazil)
Association Francaise d'Avions Historique (France)
AmicaleJean Baptiste,
Salis Aviation (France)
Korean Air
Museum, Seoul (S Korea)
Air Museum "Planes of Fame"
(USA)
Cavanaugh Flight Museum
(USA)
Evergreen Heritage Collection (USA)
Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation,
Pensacola (USA)
Olympic Flight Museum (USA)
USS Alabama
Battleship Memorial Park (USA)
USS Yorktown
(USA)
Weeks Aviation Museum (USA)
|
FAA history:
FG-1D KD431 768 Easthaven 9.45 College of aeronautics Cranfield
11.46-6.62. extant FAA Museum from 1964
JT693 1843
sqdn fl mud flats nr Ballykelly 9.10.44
Sub Lt CH Schwenger RCN ok remains found 1994
No
information on other unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Douglas C-47 DAKOTA
|
848
TOTAL
(+?)
|
NOT
THREATENED
|
Not
known if the single Fleet Air Arm aircraft survived.
Examples of
military naval aviation Dakotas are found in USA, and France.
|
RAF Battle of Britain
Memorial Flight (UK)
Aces High,
North Weald, (UK)
Airborne Forces
Museum (UK)
British
Resistance Museum (UK)
Imperial War Museum Duxford (UK)
Parachute
Regiment & Airbourne Forces Museum UK)
Aviation Heritage Museum of Western
Australia
Royal Museum of the Army and Military
History
(Belgium)
Airborne Troops
Museum, St Mere Eglise (France)
Berlin Luftbrucken Denkmal
(Germany)
Indian Air Force
Museum Vintage Aircraft Flight (India)
Dutch Dakota Association (Netherlands)
Wings of Liberation (Netherlands)
Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Museum
(Pakistan)
8th Air Force
Museum (USA)
Castle Air Museum (USA)
Kalamazoo Air Zoo (USA)
Mid Atlantic Air Museum (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
Pima Air & Space Museum (USA)
USAF Museum, Wright
Patterson (USA)
USS Alabama
Memorial Park (USA)
Valiant Air
Command (USA)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Douglas DAUNTLESS
|
8
(+?)
|
ENDANGERED
|
No known
surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
RNZAF museum (New Zealand)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
National Museum of Naval Aviation (USA)
National Air and Space Museum (USA)
Planes of Fame Museum (Chino, USA)
|
Of
the 5,396 built, only a few remain today.
|
|
Boulton Paul DEFIANT
|
1
(+?)
complete example
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
RAF Museum, Hendon
(UK)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
de
Havilland DH 86 EXPRESS
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
de Havilland DOMINIE
(Dragon Rapide)
|
36
(+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
De Havilland
Aircraft Heritage Centre/Mosquito Aircraft Museum (UK)
The Aeroplane
Collection (UK)
Blue Max Movie
Aircraft Museum (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
Science
Museum (UK)
Woodford
Collection (UK)
Musée Royal de l’Armée et d’Histoire Militaire, Brussels (Belgium)
Museum of Transport
and Technology. MOTAT (NZ)
Old Mandeville
Airfield (NZ)
Museo Do Ar (Portugal)
Turkish Air Force Museum, Izmar
(Turkey)
USAF Museum (USA)
|
-
|
|
Airspeed
ENVOY
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
Beech EXPEDITOR
|
50
(+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
Museum of Flight East Fortune (UK)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
(Canada)
Nanton Museum (Canada)
Luchtmacht Museum, Soesterberg (Netherlands)
Museum der Schweizerischen
Fliegertruppen (Switzerland)
Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum (USA)
CAF Ghost squadron (USA)
MAPS Air Museum (USA)
National
Naval Aviation Museum (USA)
Pima Air & Space Museum (USA)
US Air Force Museum (USA)
Valiant Air
Command Warbird Museum (USA)
|
Includes
all European known examples
|
|
FAIREY IIIF
|
2
(+?) and 1 replica
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
1 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Fleet Air Arm Museum (UK)
Museu
do Ar (Portugal)
Museu da Marinha - Navy Museum (Portugal)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
Miles FALCON SIX
|
3
(+?)
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Museum of Historical Aircraft of
the Fundación Infante
de Orleans, Civil Airport, Madrid (Spain)
|
3
M.3B in the world. EC-ACB participated in the Spanish Civil War (Guerra Civil española)
|
|
Blackburn FIREBRAND
|
0 only one cockpit section
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm complete aircraft.
The 1 surviving cockpit is from a Fleet Air Arm
aircraft
|
FAA Museum (UK)
|
|
|
Fairey FIREFLY
|
23
(+?)
|
VULNERABLE
|
23 known surviving Fleet Air Arm or RCN aircraft.
|
FAA Museum (UK) ex IWM
Royal Navy Historic
Flight (UK)
Manchester Air
& Space Museum (UK)
North East Aircraft Museum (UK)
Air Museum, Moorabbin (Australia)
Canadian
Warplane Heritage Museum (Canada)
Shearwater
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
de
Havilland FLAMINGO
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
--
|
-
|
|
Airspeed
FLEET SHADOWER
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
--
|
-
|
|
de Havilland
FOX MOTH
|
10
(+?)
|
ENDANGERED
|
No known
surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Old Mandeville Airfield (NZ)
Alpine Fighter Collection (AFC)
Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre (Canada)
National
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Museum of Transport
and Technology. MOTAT (NZ)
|
-
|
|
Fairey
FULMAR
|
1
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
1 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
Mk II N1854/G-AIBE
|
FAA Museum UK)
|
No
information on unpreserved wrecks
|
|
General
Aircraft Ltd GAL 38
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
De Havilland GIPSY MOTH
|
20(+?)
|
VULNERABLE
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Science Museum (UK)
Yorkshire Air Museum
(UK)
Vliegend
Museum, Seppe (Netherlands)
|
Airworthy DH60M VH ULP Serial
no. 1406 Private in NZ (for
sale2000)
|
|
Gloster GLADIATOR
Sea
Gladiator
|
7
(+?)
|
ENDANGERED
|
1 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
N5520
|
National War
Museum (Malta)
The Fighter Collection (UK)
Shuttleworth
Collection (UK)
Jet Age Museum
(UK)
RAF Museum, Hendon
(UK)
Norwegian Aviation Museum (Norway)
Militaire
Luchtmacht Museum (Netherlands)
|
Norsk Luftfartsmuseum, Bodø (Norway) collaborating with Jet Age Museum
(UK) on the construction
of several Gloster Gladiators intended for museum use (see
link for latest news).
|
|
Grumman GOOSE
|
78
(+?)
|
LOWER
RISK
|
4 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
National Aviation Museum (Canada)
Alaska Heritage
Aviation Museum (USA)
Tongass Historical
Society, Alaska (USA)
National Naval
Aviation Museum (USA)
Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum
(USA)
US National Park Service
Museum (USA)
|
After
the war many FAA Goose were returned to the USN - any more survived?
|
|
Handley
Page HARROW
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
|
|
Hawker
HART
TRAINER
|
3
+?
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
No information whether
the surviving aircraft saw service with the RN
|
RAF Aerospace Museum
Cosford (UK)
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
Flygvapenmuseum
in Linköping (Sweden)
|
A fourth reputed in NZ
under restoration
|
|
North American HARVARD
|
592
(+?)
TOTAL
|
NOT
THREATENED
|
No
information on whether there are any wartime RN aircraft preserved other
than EX976 in the FAA
Museum (UK)
|
Aircraft
Restoration Co. (British Aerial Museum)(UK)
Island
Aeroplane Company (UK)
The Fighter Collection (UK)
Real Aeroplane
Museum (UK)
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
The
Squadron, North Weald (UK)
Imperial War Museum - Duxford
(UK)
HARS Group
(Australia)
RAAF Museum (Australia)
Atlantic Canada
Aviation Museum
Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum, Brandon (Canada)
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum (Canada)
Shearwater
Aviation Museum (Canada)
Commonwealth Air Training
Plan Museum, Brandon (Canada)
National
Aviation Museum of Canada
Indian Air Force
Museum Vintage Aircraft Flight (India)
Gilze-Rijen Flight (Netherlands)
Militare
Luchtvaart Museum (Netherlands)
Ferrymead Aeronautical Society
(New Zealand)
RNZAF Historic
Flight (New Zealand)
Harvard Club of South
Africa)
Swartkops
Museum (South Africa)
Kalamazoo Museum (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
Mid Atlantic Air Museum (USA)
NNAM Pensacola (USA)
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum (USA)
Olympic Flight Museum (USA)
Pima County Museum, AZ (USA)
Wings of Freedom
Museum (USA)
|
There
are probably 500 Harvards operating around the
world, with over 300 in the USA.
|
|
Douglas HAVOC
(see also
Boston)
|
6
|
ENDANGERED
|
No
known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Douglas
Boston-Havoc UK Preservation Trust (UK)
RAAF Museum (Australia)
Air Heritage Museum (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
USAF Museum (USA)
|
The Lone Star Havoc is the last airworthy A-20 in the world.
|
|
Grumman HELLCAT
|
23
(+?)
|
VULNERABLE
|
1 known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
KE209/BuNo:
079302
|
Fleet Air Arm Museum(UK)
The Fighter Collection, Duxford
(UK)
The Air Museum "Planes of
Fame" (USA)
Cradle of Aviation Museum (USA)
Fantasy of Flight (USA)
Kalamazoo Air Zoo Museum (USA)
Lone Star Flight Museum (USA)
NASM, Smithsonian National Air and Space
Museum (USA)
National Naval Aviation Museum,
Pensacola (USA)
Palm Springs Air Museum (USA)
Patriots Point Naval and Maritime
Museum/USS Yorktown (USA)
Planes of Fame Air Museum (USA)
Quonset Air Museum (USA)
San Diego Aerospace Museum (USA)
USS Intrepid, New York (USA)
|
Further
RN information and research required
|
|
Curtiss HELLDIVER
|
2
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Hellenic Air Force
Museum (Greece)
National Naval Aviation Museum (USA)
The Confederate Air Force
Ghost Squadron (USA)
|
-
|
|
Hawker
HENLEY
|
0
|
EXTINCT
|
No known surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
-
|
-
|
|
de Havilland HORNET MOTH
|
6
|
ENDANGERED
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Aces High
Flying Museum (UK)
De Havilland
Aircraft Heritage Centre (UK)
Woodford
collection (UK)
Nelson Aeroplane
Company (Australia)
South African Air
Force Museum (South Africa)
|
-
|
|
Vought-Sikorsky HOVERFLY
|
3
|
CRITICALLY
ENDANGERED
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
National Naval Aviation Museum (USA)
Confederate Air Force Ghost
squadron (USA)
|
-
|
|
Lockheed HUDSON
|
8
|
ENDANGERED
|
Not
known if there are surviving Fleet Air Arm aircraft.
|
Airworld
Museum, Wangaratta (till 2001)
Australian War Memorial (from 2001)
RAF Museum Hendon (UK)
Atlantic Canada Aviation
Museum (Canada)
Ferrymead Aeronautical Society
(New Zealand)
Museum of Transport
and Technology, MOTAT (NZ)
RNZAF Museum (New Zealand)
|
-
|
|
Hawker HURRICANE
SEA
HURRICANE
|
76
(+?) including wrecks
53 Hurricane Extant
Airframes (inc 7 replicas
|
LOWER
RISK
|
5 surviving Fleet Air Arm Sea Hurricane aircraft are
preserved, displayed or in -situ wrecks.
|
Brooklands Museum (UK)
The Fighter Collection, Duxford (UK)
|
