Cavanaugh Air Museum

The Cavanaugh Air Museum, at the Addison Airport just north of Dallas TX, is not very big, but has a nice collection ranging from WW1 replicas to Cold War veterans. So here are some photos from a visit.

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The museum

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The Link trainer, used to teach instrument flying

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Christen Eagle II. A homebuilt kit aerobatic airplane from the 70s.

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B-25 “How Boot That?”, which saw combat in Italy

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Sopwith Camel. A replica built from original factory drawings, using period machine guns and engine.

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The WW1 Gnome rotary engine.The propeller was fixed in place, and the whole engine spun around.

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F-105 Thunderchief. The poor ole girl needs a new paintjob.

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F-104 Starfighter. Famous for crashing, a lot.

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UH-1 helicopter. Its official nickname was the “Iroquois”, but everyone called it the “Huey”.

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MiG-21U, the two-seat trainer version of the MiG-21 fighter. This one is in North Vietnamese livery. I love this paintjob.

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TS-11 Iskra, a Polish trainer used during the Cold War

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Yakovlev Yak-3, a WW2 fighter. This is a modern copy built and sold in Russia by the Yakovlev company.

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Wildcat, a WW2 carrier-based fighter. This is the GM-built version known as the FM-2.

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Messerchmitt Bf-109. This one was built in 1943 and sold to Spain.

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Spitfire Mk VII

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F9F Panther, the US Navy’s first carrier-based jet fighter.

 


2 thoughts on “Cavanaugh Air Museum

  1. Hell yeh, if I’da had a Link in my bedroom I’d have never seen sunlight. šŸ˜‰

    What’d be supercool would be to hook it up to some computer monitors as windows and then fly it with MS Combat Flight Sim. šŸ˜‰

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