Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum

Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
Location within Florida
Established 1977
Location Space Coast Regional Airport
6600 Tico Road
Titusville, Florida
Coordinates 28°31′18″N 80°47′40″W / 28.52169°N 80.79431°W / 28.52169; -80.79431
Type Historic Aircraft
Website Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
Valiant Air Command insignia

The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum is located at the Space Coast Regional Airport, 6600 Tico Road, 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.[1] 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.[2] The museum frequently acquires and restores aircraft.[2] 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.[3]

The collection

The museum collection includes:

Under restoration[4]

Aircraft Registration Joined Restoration start date Notes
Boeing B-52 Stratofortress Cockpit only.
English Electric Canberra TT.18
Grumman F-11F Tiger [5]
Grumman TBM-3E Avenger

American manufacturers[6]

Aircraft Registration Joined Last Restored Notes
Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor
Bell UH-1 Iroquois
Douglas A-4C Skyhawk January 2014 Airworthy.[5]
Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk
Douglas C-47A Skytrain
Epps 1907 Monoplane N1907 Replica
Fairchild C-123 Provider
General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon 2014
Grumman A-6 Intruder
Grumman FM Wildcat
Grumman F9F-5 Panther
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Grumman OV-1D Mohawk
Grumman S-2F Tracker
Lockheed T-33
Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II 2014 2014
McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II 2014
McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet
McDonnell F-101B Voodoo [5]
North American B-25 Mitchell
North American F-86 Sabre
North American F-100C Super Sabre 2015 Due to be restored in 2016.
North American P-51 Mustang 3/4 scale replica
North American T-2C Buckeye
North American T-28 Trojan
North American SNJ-5 Texan
North American Rockwell OV-10 Bronco
Northrop F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration
Piper L-4J Grasshopper
Republic F-105 Thunderchief 2015
Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw
Vought F-8K Crusader

Other manufacturers

Aircraft Registration Joined Last Restored Notes
de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth
ME-208 Messerschmitt
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21

See also

References

  1. ↑ Florida Today. The Fact Book: Your Guide to Brevard County (Melbourne, Florida: Florida Today, February 28, 2004), p. 119.
  2. 1 2 Lyn Dowling. "Warbird Air Museum opens hangar doors," Florida Today, November 09, 2007, TgIF 25.
  3. ↑ Valiant Air Command website
  4. ↑ "Restoration Hangar". VACWM. February 3, 2016.
  5. 1 2 3 Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. Museum brochure, circa 2007.
  6. ↑ "Static Collection". VACWM. February 3, 2016.

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