Air Combat Museum
The Air Combat Museum is an aviation museum located at the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield, Illinois.
History
After learning about World War II aircraft as a child, Mike George, the son of George Alarm Company founder Donald J. George, bought his first warbird, a T-34 in the 1980s. He purchased another airplane, a P-51D, in 1989 and founded the museum together with his father the same year in a hangar.The museum built a addition around 2013. It expanded again circa 2021, adding another and allowing the museum to consolidate the collection from seven hangars to one.
Collection
Aircraft
- Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan
- Beechcraft T-34A Mentor
- Cessna 150J
- Cessna C-165 Airmaster
- Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
- de Havilland Chipmunk
- Extra 300L
- Fairchild PT-19
- Fleet 9
- Kreutzer Air Coach
- North American P-51D Mustang "Worry Bird"
- Ryan PT-22 Recruit
- Sopwith Camel – replica
- Stearman C3B
- Stinson SM-2AA Junior
- Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper
- Vought F4U-5N Corsair