Go see Aviation History game...

[m charters]

Ok, my list of must sees ....

1. Short Sunderland, RAF Museum, UK
2. Vickers Wellington, RAF Museum, UK
3. Short Stirling, Argentina
4. IL-2 Stormovik, USSR
5. Junkers JU-87 Stuka, Chicago
6. Hughes Spruce Goose, Oregon
7. Handley Page Halifax, Trenton, ON ( and i live only a few hours from there)
8. Ilyushin Db-3 bomber, Air Force Museum, Monino, Russia
9. FE2b Replica, New Zealand (is there an original?)
10. Mitsubishi G4M if one exists complete somewhere?

[JDK]

Great suggestions, like them, folks.

The Stirling (China jokes aside) is extinct, with a several groups building cockpits or sections, and some large fuselage chunks and an eroded wreck at sea. Argentina has two Avro Lincolns - is that what you were thinking of? (And there's a third Lincoln at Cosford).

FE-2b - The Vintage Aviator example (with an original, rare, Beardmore engine) flies. There's a reconstructed 'original' at the RAF Museum, which went on show in the last couple of years.

Mitsubishi G4M Betties. There's a complete looking wreck at Chino in Planes of Fame, and the one that Yamamoto was killed aboard is still relatively complete where it came down in the jungle, I understand. There's other unrecovered wrecks and a part reconstruction was shown here on WIX IIRC recently, which is Japan.

The RAF Museum's Wellington is being restored at Cosford at the moment, and is a postwar trainer T-10 masquerading as a bomber, so IMHO, comes a second to 'R for Robert' at Brooklands, which is an actual combat veteran and gets cool points for having been recovered from none-other than Loch Ness.

Plenty more lists wanted!
Regards,

[svengi]

Hughes H-4 Hercules Evergreen Aviation Museum
Aichi M6A1 Seiran NASM Udvar-Hazy
Fw-190D-9 NMUSAF
F3F-2 Planes of Fame
B-26 Marauder Fantasy of Flight
Bf 109F Canada Aviation and Space Museum
Beaufighter Australian National Aviation Museum
B-239 Aviation Museum of Central Finland
IL-2-M3 Museum of Aviation Belgrade
Me 410A-1 RAFM Cosford

Certainly wouldn't be the only aircraft I'd be interested in at each of these places! Plenty of other museums I'd like to visit as well.

[Mike]

F3F-2 Planes of Fame

Sold to a new owner, I believe.

[m charters]

I must have had a brain fart, Lincoln is what I meant.
I remember years ago that there was someone in Japan who was restoring a Japanese bomber and a zero i believe. Correct me if i am wrong, but they won't allow warbirds to fly in Japan?