MAPS Air Museum is a “working” Museum.  What does that mean?  Many of the aircraft that MAPS receives are dilapidated and need a lot of restoration work.  Due to that, this means many volunteer hours are not just going toward general maintenance/upkeep on aircraft, but also on continuous work to refurbish these aircraft to museum status. 

The aircraft under refurbishment at MAPS are at varying stages of repair or maintenance.  Anywhere from a completed aircraft that needs basic general maintenance, all the way down to extremely deteriorated aircraft that are dismantled to its base fuselage for work to be done. When one is complete, MAPS finds more aircraft to refurbish before they deteriorate too much.  Many are rare to find and/or heavily deteriorated. 

As an example, our B-26 Marauder of the WWII era required more than 13,500 volunteer worker-hours to repair.  This aircraft crash landed in early 1942, in British Columbia, Canada and stayed there for a long time before anyone attempted to revive this rare aircraft.  This aircraft at MAPS is only 1 of 4 fully refurbished aircraft on display in the world (only 1 of which is flyable) and another 3 at various degrees of repair.

Here you will find a listing of the types of aircraft, mostly military, that are in various stages of refurbishment or maintenance.  A few aircraft are in our restricted Restoration building for heavy repairs. While many others are awaiting their turn to be fully restored, you can still see many of these aircraft on display at MAPS. 

MAPS Air Museum attains their aircraft through purchases, but also through indefinite loan agreements from many entities, such as: private collections, the M.A.R.C group, McKinley Museum and the United States Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force.  Below the list of aircraft are the Before/After photos from how the aircraft arrived at MAPS and what they look like after their renovations at MAPS!

 

Aircraft NameBuilt by:Status of AircraftSerial or
Bureau #		Role (primary listed first)
A-4ASkyhawkDouglasOn Display139947Ground Attack, Fighter
A-7ECorsair IILing-Temco-Vought (LTV)On Display159268Ground Attack
A-26CInvaderDouglasOn Display43-22602Ground Attack
A-37ADragonflyCessnaOn Display54-2732Trainer
AH-1SCobraBellOn Display70-16084Helicopter (Ground Attack)
AV-8BHarrierMcDonnell Douglas Restricted area for significant restoration165306 from 161581Ground Attack
B-26BMarauderMartinOn Display40-1459Ground Attack
B-75-LFunk Model BAkron AircraftOn display in CAK airport terminal205Historic
BT-13AValiantVulteeOn Display41-21271Trainer
C-47DSkytrain (Gooney Bird)DouglasOn Display45-928Transport
C-130HHerculesLockheedOn Display88-4401Transport
EA-6BProwlerNorthrop GrummanOn Display163047Specialty (Electronic Warfare/Ground Attack)
F-4SPhantomMcDonnell DouglasOn Display155764Fighter, Ground Attack
F-11FTigerGrummanOn Display57-0342Fighter
F-14BTomcatGrummanOn Display162694FIghter, Ground Attack
F-16A Fighting FalconGeneral DynamicsOn Display80-0513Fighter, Ground Attack
F-84FThunderstreakRepublicOn Display52-6524Ground Attack, Fighter, Reconnaissance
F-86ASabreNorth AmericanOn Display48-0263Fighter
F-86DSabre DogNorth AmericanOn Display, cockpit only52-3927Fighter
F-86D/LSabre DogNorth AmericanOn Display53-0658Fighter
F-100DSuper Sabre (Hun)North AmericanOn Display56-3081Ground Attack, Fighter
F-100FSuper Sabre (Wild Weasel)North AmericanAwaiting transportation approval to MAPS56-38992-seat trainer, Ground Attack
F-101FVoodooMcDonnellOn Display57-0342Fighter
F-102ADelta Dagger ConvairOn Display56-0986Fighter
F-104DStarfighterLockheedRestricted area for significant restoration57-1322
F-105BTunderchief (Thud)RepublicOn Display57-5820Ground Attack, Fighter
F7U-3CutlassVoughtRestricted Area for Significant
Restoration		129685Fighter, Bomber
F9F-8PCougarGrummanOn Display144402Specialty (Photo Recon)
FG-1DCorsairGoodyearRestricted Area for Significant Restoration76671Fighter, Bomber
GA-22ADrakeGoodyearOn Display4040One of a Kind
GZ-22Spirit of AkronLoralOn Display4120Specialty (Non-rigid Airship/blimp)
H-19DChickasawSikorskyOn Display54-1412Helicopter (Utility)
HawkArrow IICGS AviationOn Displayn/aSpecialty (Ultralight/Light Transport)
J3LCub
PiperOn Display3026Trainer
L-29Delfin or MayoAero VodochodyOn Display892-828Trainer, Ground Attack
Lim-2 (SB)MidgetPZL-MielecOn Display526-116Fighter
Lim-6bisFrescoPZL-MielecOn Display1J-04-19Fighter
MartinGliderMartin On Displayone of a kindHistoric
MiG-21F-13 (Aero S-106)Fishbed-CAero VodochodyOn Display506301Fighter
O-2ASkymasterCessnaIn Restoration area69-7656Observation
OH-58AKiowaBell On Display69-16153Helicopter (Observation, Reconnaissance)
OV-1AMohawkGrummanOn Display63-13128Observation, Ground Attack
P-51MustangNorth AmericanOn MAPS Entrance polen/aFighter
Pitts S-1Pitts SpecialHome BuiltOn Display149-HSpecialty (Aerobatic)
PT-19ACornellAeroncaOn Display43-31365Trainer
S2F-1TrackerGrummanOn Display136464Specialty (Anti-Submarine)
SNB-5ExpeditorBeechcraftOn Display43-33316Trainer, Transport
Sopwith Tri-PlaneTripehoundHome Built On Display001Historical (Fighter)
T-28ATrojanNorth AmericanOn Display51-3565Trainer, Ground Attack
T-33AShooting StarLockheedOn Display53-5250Trainer
T-37BTweetCessnaOn Display60-0188Trainer
U-11A (PA-23-150)Aztec (Apache)PiperOn Display23-894Liaison

Click HERE to see what else is being renovated with our facility projects!

 

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