Waco CG4's

[Wolverine]

CG-4A-FO 42-37123 (fuselage) SD Yorkshire Air
45-6576 (tail, etc) Museum; Elvington,
Yorkshire, UK

CG-4A 42-43740 UR Museum of Aviation;
Georgia

CG-4A 42-43809 SD Museum of Army
Flying; Middle
Wallop, UK

CG-4A 42-46574? SD Fighting Falcon
Military Museum
of the Flat River
Historical Museum;
Greenville, MI,
USA

CG-4A 45-13696 AR Yanks Air Museum;
Chino, CA, USA

CG-4A-CM 45-14647 SD/P Pima Air & Space
Museum; Tucson,
AZ, USA

CG-4A-CM 45-15009 SD AMC Museum; Dover
DE, USA

CG-4A-CM 45-15073 UR Lenair Corp;
Hubbard, OR,
USA

CG-4 45-15574 SD Cradle of Aviation
Museum; New York,
NY, USA

CG-4A-FO 45-15821 UR Lenair Corp;
Hubbard, OR,
USA

CG-4A-PR 45-15691 SD Silent Wings
Museum; Lubbock,
TX, USA

CG-4A-GN 45-15965 SD Kalamazoo Air Zoo;
1308 Kalamazoo, MI, USA

CG-4A-LK 45-17241 SD Musee des Troupes
Aeroportees; St
Mere Eglise; France

CG-4A-GN 45-27948 SD USAF Museum;
Dayton, OH, USA

CG-4 U Western Canada
Aviation Museum;
Canada

CG-4A SD/P Travis AFB; CA,
USA

CG-4A NS CAF Museum;
Midland, TX, USA

CG-4A SD National Soaring
Museum; Elmira,
NY, USA

CG-4A SD Fairfield, NJ, USA

CG-4A SD Airborne & Special
Operations Museum;
Fayetteville; NC,
USA

CG-4A NS Yankee Air Force
Wurtsmith Division;
Oscoda, MI, USA

CG-4A SD/P Atterbury-Bakalar cockpit only;
Air Museum; they found a
Columbus, IN, USA graveyard of
CG-4 tubing,
etc. all
destroyed

CG-4A SD Ft. Benning National
Infanty Museum;
Ft. Benning, GA,
USA

CG-4A NS CT, USA

CG-4 UR BAHA; Belgium

CG-4A NS National Infantry parts from
Museum; Georgia several frames

CG-4A SD/P Silent Wings
Museum; Lubbock,
TX, USA

CG-4 UR CAF, Ohio Valley
Wing; OH, USA

CG-4 SD Pennine Aviation
Museum;
Lancashire, UK

CG-4 S Museum of Flight;
East Lothian,
Scotland, UK

CG-4 SD DAEG Museum;
Deeleen, Netherlands

CG-4 SD Museum Bevrijdende
Vleugels; Best,
Netherlands

CG-4 UR WACO Air Museum;
OH, USA

CG-4 SD/P AeroVenture; Belle cockpit only
View, Doncaster, UK

33 CG-4s in existence
20 are on static display
6 are under restoration
4 I’m not sure of
1 is awaiting restoration
1 is in storage
1 is unconfirmed

[Wolverine]

If you copy and paste it, it should be easier to read. Apparently PHPBB doesn't like the Tab button. I use my own status key. Should be pretty easy to figure out. I have added all that I have heard of. Any corrections/additions/etc would be apprecitated.

[Jiggersfromsphilly]

The glider at the Wings of Liberation Museum in Best Holland is the recreation that was built for the movie "Saving Private Ryan" The crash as depicted in the movie reflected an actual event. Brigadier General Don Pratt , the assistant division commander for the 101st Division , was killed in a crash landing of his glider. He was sitting in a jeep in side and his neck was broken when he hit some of the framework. He did not have a seat belt in the jeep and this in all likelyhood , would have saved him.

I am told that they have a substantial amount of parts from the gliders that landed in the field in front of the museum . When I was in Holland we visited the drop zone and found evidence of a crashed glider . We were able to collect pieces of the cockpit window frame with the scored plexiglass pieces. I have a handful of canvas with burn damage.

[Pat Carry]

Wolverine, thanks for sharing that list.

[Dan K]

http://www.atterburybakalarairmuseum.or ... 0Tower.jpg

Anyone know if "The Fighting Falcon" has picked up a set of wings yet?

[John-Curtiss Paul]

You've missed one. We have one (minus wings) in the Warhawk Air Museum located in Nampa Idaho. It was found near Challis Idaho and had been converted into a Trailer Home! Lots of original pieces including fabric, plexiglass and wood. The owner used wood from the wings to better insulate it and then covered the Glider with corrigated sheet metal. Go to www.warhawkairmuseum.org and go to the virtual tour - on about the 4th photo of the tour you can see the front of it just past the left wing of the Tri-plane and in front of the Wildcat. It's Bitch'in.

[simon king]

Add this one to your list

Might be a duplicate as it's on loan from Silent Wings in return for a flat-pack Horsa

http://www.assaultgliderproject.org.uk/

enjoy!

sk

[Chris Brame]

Was the CG-4A that was on top of the tire shop in Fresno, CA rescued?

[Originalboxcar]

n/a

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[Dan K]

so the greenville, mi glider is now in Indiana?

No, I believe she's still in Michigan. I think the photo of "The Fighting Falcon" is just linked as an example of another surviving CG-4.

[TimAPNY]

Was the CG-4A that was on top of the tire shop in Fresno, CA rescued?

Where is Freseo was that? I don't remember see it, but there were areas I did try to avoid when stationed in Lemoore.

[Chris Brame]

Don't know the address, but it was on top of a two-story industrial building with "Commercial Tire Co." painted under the wings, and the fuselage fabric had rotted away. There were a couple of CG-13 hulks in the area, too - this was mid-to-late '70s.

[TimAPNY]

Correct me if I'm wrong (I really hope that I am) but I think the Yankee Air Force's was lost in the hanger fire.

[bdk]

Was the CG-4A that was on top of the tire shop in Fresno, CA rescued?

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/ ... i_n9235414

After World War Two, Fresno, California, became a disposal center for numerous Waco CG-4A combat gliders. However, most of the aircraft were purchased for the high-quality wooden crates in which they were stored. The gliders were usually discarded and the crates were put into use by local farmers. This example wound up atop a tire store in Fresno where it became an effective advertising tool. Photographed by William T. Larkins during 1957. If readers have any further details regarding the disposal of the gliders, we would be pleased to hear from you.

[David J Burke]

The CG-4 cockpit at Aeroventure (Doncaster ) is also ex Private Ryan and
was collected from Hatfield post filming . There was a CG-13 in use as a caravan until the late 1970's in the U.K but it's thought to have been scrapped.