The Air Combat Museum is an aviation museum located at the
Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in
Springfield, Illinois
Springfield is the capital of the U.S. state of Illinois and the county seat and largest city of Sangamon County. The city's population was 114,394 at the 2020 census, which makes it the state's seventh most-populous city, the second largest o ...
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History
After learning about World War II aircraft as a child, Mike George, the son of George Alarm Company founder Donald J. George, bought his first warbird, a T-34 in the 1980s. He purchased another airplane, a P-51D, in 1989 and founded the museum together with his father the same year in a hangar.
The museum built a addition around 2013. It expanded again circa 2021, adding another and allowing the museum to consolidate the collection from seven hangars to one.
Collection
Aircraft
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Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan
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Beechcraft T-34A Mentor
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Cessna 150J
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Cessna C-165 Airmaster
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Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
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de Havilland Chipmunk
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Extra 300L
The Extra Flugzeugbau EA300 is a two-seat aerobatic monoplane capable of Unlimited category competition. It was designed in 1987 by Walter Extra, a German aerobatic pilot, and built by Extra Flugzeugbau.
Design and development
Design of the ...
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Fairchild PT-19
The Fairchild PT-19 (company designation Fairchild M62) is an American monoplane primary trainer aircraft that served with the United States Army Air Forces, RAF and RCAF during World War II. Designed by Fairchild Aircraft, it was a contempora ...
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Fleet 9
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Kreutzer Air Coach The Kreutzer Air Coach is an American-built light trimotor transport aircraft of the late 1920s.
Design and development
Joseph Kreutzer formed the company of the same name in Los Angeles in late 1928. In 1929 the firm moved to Clover Field, San ...
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North American P-51D Mustang
Over twenty variants of the North American P-51 Mustang fighter were produced from 1940, when it first flew, to after World War II, some of which were employed also in the Korean War and in several other conflicts.
Allison-engined Mustangs
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Worry Bird"''
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Ryan PT-22 Recruit
The Ryan PT-22 Recruit, the main military version of the Ryan ST, is a military trainer aircraft used by the United States Army Air Corps during WWII for primary pilot training.
Design and development
The PT-22's fuselage is a simple monocoque ...
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Soko G-2 Galeb
The Soko G-2 Galeb ( en, Seagull) is a Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslav single engine, two-seater jet trainer and light ground-attack aircraft. The G-2 was developed during the 1950s by the Aeronautical Technical Institute at Ž ...
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Sopwith Camel – replica
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Stearman C3B Stearman is a surname. Notable people with the name include:
* Lloyd Stearman (1898–1975), American aviation pioneer
* Richard Stearman (born 1987), English footballer
* William Stearman (1813–1846) English cricketer
* William L. Stearman (b ...
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Stinson SM-2AA Junior
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Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper
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Vought F4U-5N Corsair
Ground vehicles
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Alvis Saladin
The FV601 Saladin is a six-wheeled armoured car developed by Crossley Motors and later manufactured by Alvis. Designed in 1954, it replaced the AEC Armoured Car in service with the British Army from 1958 onward. The vehicle weighed 11 tonnes, o ...
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M3 half-track
References
External links
* {{Official website, www.aircombatmuseum.com
Aerospace museums in Illinois
Military and war museums in Illinois
Museums in Springfield, Illinois