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The Collings Foundation Airplanes

Stow, MA. A private facility housing World War II era airplanes, military machinery, and contemporary racecars. The Collings Foundation also has two WWII bombers - a B-17 and a B-24 - that make up the Wings of Freedom tour. Check them out at a air show close to you.

Photos are from different visits over the years.
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    Bleriot Type Xi (c.1909). One of the earliest commercially-available private airplanes and based on the model that first flew the English Channel.

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    Cessna UC-78 training bomber (1944). This particular aircraft was used for training bombing pilots for WWII and then used in the Boston area from Revere Airport and Beverly Airport.

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    Cessna UC-78 training bomber (1944). This particular aircraft was used for training bombing pilots for WWII and then used in the Boston area from Revere Airport and Beverly Airport.

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    Collings Foundatio

    Cessna UC-78 training bomber (1944). This particular aircraft was used for training bombing pilots for WWII and then used in the Boston area from Revere Airport and Beverly Airport.

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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.

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    Fieseler Storch

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    Fieseler Storch

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    Fokker DR-1 triplane (replica)

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    Fokker DR-1 triplane (replica)

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    Collings Foundation

    Fokker DR-1 triplane (replica)

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    Collings Foundation

    Fokker DR-1 triplane (replica)

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    German V-1 cruise missile

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    Grumman/General Motors FM2 Wildcat. The first carrier-based fighter model used in WWII. Only the B-17 and B-24 had more missions.

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    Grummann G-21 Goose flying boat (1936). This was built during WWII and used for coastal patrols in the Gulf of Mexico. It then served in one of the earliest Alaskan airlines.

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    Grummann G-21 Goose flying boat (1936). This was built during WWII and used for coastal patrols in the Gulf of Mexico. It then served in one of the earliest Alaskan airlines.

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    Grummann G-21 Goose flying boat (1936). This was built during WWII and used for coastal patrols in the Gulf of Mexico. It then served in one of the earliest Alaskan airlines.

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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.

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    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.

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    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.

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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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    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.

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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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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

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    Collings Foundation

    Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

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    Collings Foundation

    Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

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    North American AT-6F Texan trainer

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    Collings Foundation

    North American AT-6F Texan trainer

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    Waco UPF-7

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    Waco UPF-7

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