Champlin_Fighter_Museum

Champlin Fighter Museum

Champlin Fighter Museum

Defunct aviation museum in Mesa, Arizona

The Champlin Fighter Museum was an aircraft museum located at Mesa, Arizona. It specialized in airworthy World War I and World War II fighters.[1] After 22 years of operation, the Museum was closed on May 26, 2003, and its collection was moved to the Museum of Flight at Seattle's Boeing Field.[2][3][4]

A Focke-Wulf Fw 190, at the Champlin Fighter Museum (c.1995)

It also published books related to aviation, such as Henry Sakaida's 1985 book Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots.[5]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Arizona Republic article
  2. [2]
    Tillman, Barrett. "Fighters on the Move", Flight Journal magazine, August 2004 (online version). Retrieved 2009-11-28
  3. [3]
    Museum of Flight Fact Sheet – J. Elroy McCaw Personal Courage Wing Archived July 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine retrieved 2009-11-28.
  4. [4]
    Slivka, Judd (20 January 2000). "Champlin Collection". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
  5. [5]
    "Pacific World War II Book Review Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots by Henry Sakaida". pacificwrecks.com. November 12, 2017. Retrieved November 20, 2017.

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