The Champlin Fighter Museum was an aircraft museum located at
Mesa, Arizona. It specialized in airworthy World War I and World War II fighters. After 22 years of operation, the Museum was closed on May 26, 2003, and its collection was moved to the
Museum of Flight
The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in the city of Tukwila, immediately south of Seattle. ...
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Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
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Boeing Field
Boeing Field, officially King County International Airport , is a public airport owned and operated by King County, five miles south of downtown Seattle, Washington. The airport is sometimes referred to as KCIA (King County International Airp ...
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It also published books related to aviation, such as
Henry Sakaida
Henry Sakaida (October 1951 28 August 2018) was an American writer who authored a number of books relating to World War II. He was a third-generation Japanese-American.
Although born in Santa Monica, California in October 1951, he lived in J ...
's 1985 book
Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots.
See also
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List of aviation museums
This is a list of aviation museums and museums that contain significant aerospace-related exhibits throughout the world. The aviation museums are listed alphabetically by country and their article name.
Afghanistan
* OMAR Mine Museum, Kabul - inc ...
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Images of aircraft exhibited
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Aerospace museums in Arizona
Military and war museums in Arizona
Museums in Mesa, Arizona
Defunct museums in Arizona