The Collings Foundation Airplanes
Photos are from different visits over the years.
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Curtiss P-40B Tomahawk (Warhawk). This was a surprise flyby as our group was packing up to leave. It didn't take off from here so it must be based somewhere nearby and we happened to catch him.
This plane is hugely significant (and maybe unlucky). It is the only airworthy fighter aircraft that survived the bombing of Pearl Harbor. It was in a maintenance hanger after a wheels-up landing in October, 1941 and Japanese bombs were likely targeted elsewhere. Then in 1942 it was involved in a training crash that killed her pilot. The fighter sat on the side of a Hawaiian mountain until the 1980s when it was retrieved and restored.CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraftCurtissP40WarhawkTomahawkflyover
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Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
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Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
Collings Foundation
Grumman TBM Avenger torpedo bomber (1942). The Avengers were launched from aircraft carriers and dropped torpedoes on enemy ships, including aircraft carriers. They were used primarily against the Japanese in the Pacific.
CollingsFoundationWingsFreedomTourB17B24T6P51M1 AbramswarbirdWWIIaircraft
