Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum facts for kids
The Valiant Air Command, Inc. Warbird Museum is located at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Brevard County, just south of Titusville, Florida. The VAC contains vintage aircraft and a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m2) hangar with a restoration area. The VAC also has a Memorabilia Hall with flight gear, dress uniforms, weapons and artifacts. The collection includes fixed and rotary wing aircraft from World War I to the present. The flagship aircraft of the museum is a Douglas C-47 Skytrain called "TICO Belle" which returned to flying status in July 2009 after the aircraft was involved in an accident.
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Aircraft on display
The museum collection includes:
Aircraft under restoration
Restoration to static display
- Cessna O-2 Skymaster
- McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
- Grumman F-11 Tiger - To be Displayed at California Science Center
Restoration to airworthy
- Grumman TBM-3E Avenger
- Grumman S-2F Tracker
Aircraft on display
- Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois
- de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
- English Electric Canberra TT.18
- Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk
- Douglas C-47A Skytrain – Airworthy
- Epps 1907 Monoplane – Replica
- Fairchild C-123 Provider
- Fokker Dr.I – Replica
- Fouga CM.170 Magister
- General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon
- Grumman F-11F Tiger
- Grumman A-6 Intruder
- Grumman FM Wildcat
- Grumman F9F-5 Panther
- Grumman F-14A Tomcat
- Grumman OV-1D Mohawk
- Lockheed T-33
- Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II
- McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II
- McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
- McDonnell F-101B Voodoo
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21
- Nord Noralpha
- North American B-25 Mitchell
- North American F-86 Sabre
- North American T-2C Buckeye
- North American SNJ-5 Texan
- North American XP-82 Twin Mustang – On loan
- Northrop F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration
- Sopwith Camel – Replica
- Stearman PT-17
- Stewart S-51D Mustang – 3/4 scale replica
- Piper L-4J Grasshopper
- Republic F-105 Thunderchief
- Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw
- Vought F-8K Crusader
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