The National Warplane Museum is a

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and military history museum currently located on the grounds of the Geneseo Airport in

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. Founded in 1994, the museum restores, flies, and displays vintage military aircraft from the

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eras. In 1998, after a split developed in the membership with two thirds of the group wanting to move to a modern airport and grow, the National Warplane Museum moved to the

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near

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. In 2010, the Horseheads museum reinvented itself as the

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. In 2013, the National Warplane Museum name was reacquired by the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group which remained in Geneseo. The museum hosts the annual Geneseo Airshow, billed as the "Greatest Show On Turf."1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum Photos
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Aircraft collection

Douglas C-47 The Douglas C-47 Skytrain or Dakota (Royal Air Force, RAF, Royal Australian Air Force, RAAF, Royal Canadian Air Force, RCAF, Royal New Zealand Air Force, RNZAF, and South African Air Force, SAAF designation) is a airlift, military transport ai ...

"W7" - Restored and airworthy * Beechcraft C-45 - Restored and airworthy *

Douglas B-23 Dragon The Douglas B-23 Dragon is an American twin-engined bomber developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company as a successor to (and a refinement of) the B-18 Bolo. Design and development Douglas proposed a number of modifications designed to improve th ...

- Stored, awaiting restoration *

Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar The Fairchild C-119 Flying Boxcar (Navy and Marine Corps designation R4Q) was an American military transport aircraft developed from the World War II-era Fairchild C-82 Packet, designed to carry cargo, personnel, litter patients, and mechani ...

- Undergoing restoration * Fokker DVII - (Replica) airworthy * Antonov An-2 "Natasha" - Undergoing maintenance, on display *

Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star (or T-Bird) is an American subsonic jet trainer. It was produced by Lockheed and made its first flight in 1948. The T-33 was developed from the Lockheed P-80/F-80 starting as TP-80C/TF-80C in development, then d ...

- On display *

North American AT-6 The North American Aviation T-6 Texan is an American single-engined advanced trainer aircraft used to train pilots of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), United States Navy, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and other air forces ...

- Undergoing restoration *

Grumman F6F Hellcat The Grumman F6F Hellcat is an American carrier-based fighter aircraft of World War II. Designed to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat and to counter the Japanese Mitsubishi A6M Zero, it was the United States Navy's dominant fighter in the second ha ...

(Replica) - On display * Beechcraft UC-43 Staggerwing - Airworthy *

Aeronca L-16 The Aeronca L-16 was a United States Army liaison aircraft built by Aeronca. It saw extensive service during the Korean War. It was essentially a militarized version of the Aeronca Champion. From 1955 large numbers were transferred to the Civil A ...

- Airworthy * Piper L-21 (Replica) - Airworthy * YO-55 Ercoupe - Airworthy *

Ryan Navion The Ryan (originally North American) Navion is a single-engine, unpressurized, retractable gear, four-seat aircraft originally designed and built by North American Aviation in the 1940s. It was later built by Ryan Aeronautical Company and ...

- Airworthy *

Aero Commander 100 The Aero Commander 100, various models of which were known as the Darter Commander and Lark Commander was an American light aircraft produced in the 1960s. It was a high-wing monoplane of conventional design, equipped with fixed tricycle undercar ...

- Airworthy *

Lockheed C-130 Hercules The Lockheed C-130 Hercules is an American four-engine turboprop military transport aircraft designed and built by Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Capable of using unprepared runways for takeoffs and landings, the C-130 was originally desig ...

"Saigon Lady" - Undergoing restoration

Hosted aircraft

The museum also hosts several aircraft owned by the Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation.

Land-Based Equipment Collection

The museum houses a small group named "The 1941 Motor Pool Restoration Shop." This group acquires, restores, and maintains a variety of land-based military vehicles. Currently working out of a pole barn next to the museum's main hangar, The 1941 Motor Pool Restoration Shop is not a separate business entity, and instead serves as a way to internally categorize museum projects. *

DUKW The DUKW (colloquially known as Duck) is a six-wheel-drive amphibious modification of the -ton CCKW trucks used by the U.S. military during World War II and the Korean War. Designed by a partnership under military auspices of Sparkman & Step ...

- Restoration nearly complete - All major systems are functional *

Oshkosh MB-5 The Oshkosh MB-5 is a specialized aircraft rescue and firefighting (ARFF) vehicle built by Oshkosh Corporation (formerly Oshkosh Truck Corp.) for putting out fires on-board aircraft carriers. It was designed for rapid deployment of multiple firefi ...

- Undergoing restoration - Drive systems, lights and PKP firefighting systems are functional *

GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck The GMC CCKW, also known as "Jimmy", or the by its Ordnance Supply Catalog nr, was a highly successful series of off-road capable, 2-ton, 6×6 trucks, built in large numbers to a standardized design (from 1941 to 1945) for the U.S. Army, t ...

- Restoration pending - Major components missing * GE 60 inch carbon arc

Searchlight A searchlight (or spotlight) is an apparatus that combines an extremely bright source (traditionally a carbon arc lamp) with a mirrored parabolic reflector to project a powerful beam of light of approximately parallel rays in a particular direc ...

- Light restoration complete - Power supply awaiting restoration

References

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External links

National Warplane Museum
- official site {{authority control Aerospace museums in New York (state) Military and war museums in New York (state) Museums in Livingston County, New York

Aircraft collection

Hosted aircraft

Land-Based Equipment Collection

See also

References

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