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Champlin Fighter Museum
CLOSED 5/26/2003
Falcon Field Airport
4636 Fighter Aces Drive
Mesa, AZ 85215

The Champlin Fighter Museum was an aircraft museum located at Mesa, Arizona. It specialized in airworthy World War I and World War II fighters. 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. The following photos were taken at the Museum on 16 April 2000 by John Shupek. These are early digital so the maximum image size is 1600 × 1067 pixels.

Skytamer Archive Photos

• Albatros D.Va (NX36DV, 1917 L.24 reproduction by Art Williams, Jim and Zona Appleby)
• Aviatik (Berg) D.I "Scout" (1918 original, s/n 101.4)
• Canadair T-33A-N "Silver Star 3" (N12417, CL-30, c/n T33-440, ex RCAF 21440)
• Curtiss P-40N-30-CU "Warhawk - O'Riley's Daughter" (NL10626, AF 44-7192, c/n 32932, 1944)
• Focke Wulf Fw-190D-12 "Long-Nose Dora" (s/n 836017, 10 yellow)
• Fokker D.VII (N38038, 1918 reproduction by Joe DeFiori and Jim and Zona Appleby)
• Fokker D.VIII (NX7557U, 1918 reproduction by E.O. Swearingen)
• Fokker Dr.I "Driedecker" (NX2203, 1917 reproduction by Richard Coughlin and Champlin Fighter Museum)
• Fokker E.III "Eindecker" (N3363G, 1915 reproduction by Jim and Zona Appleby)
• Goodyear F2G-1 "Super Corsair" (N4324, BuNo 88454, c/n 6163)
• Kawanishi N1K2-J Model 21 "George" (A/343-35)
• Lockheed P-38L-5-LO "Lightning - Lizzie V" (NL3JB, AF 44-53097, c/n 422-8352)
• McDonnell F-4N (F4H-1/F-4B-26-MC/F-4N)"Phantom II" (BuNo 153016)
• Messerschmitt Bf.109E-3 (NX109J, c/n 186, HA-1112)
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis "Fagot" (s/n 124079, 079 red, 1950)
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 "Fresco" (s/n 1406016, 7469 red, 1952)
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F "Fresco-C" (LIM-5, "711")
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PF "Fishbed-D" (s/n 4315)
• Nieuport 27 (N5597M, 1917 reproduction by Carl Swanson and Jerry Thornhill)
• Nieuport 28C.1 (Original, s/n 14)
• North American AT-6A "Harvard II" (N88RT, c/n 2780)
• North American P-51D-30-NT "Mustang - Ho! Hun" (N151X, AF 45-11628)
• North American F-86F-25-NH "Sabre" (AF 51-13371)
• Pfalz D.XII (N43C, s/n 3498, 1918 Original)
• Republic P-47D-2-RE "Thunderbolt - Big Stud" (NX14519, AF 42-8205)
• Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a (NX910A, 1917 reproduction by Bobby Strahlmann, Tom Davis, and Gil Bodine)
• Rumpler "Taube (Dove)" (1913 reproduction by Art Williams)
• Sopwith F.1 "Camel" (NX6330, 1917 reproduction by Antique Aero Limited)
• Sopwith "Pup" (NX6018, 1916 replica by Carl Swanson)
• Sopwith 7F.1 "Snipe" (NX6765D, 1918 reproduction by Richard Day)
• Sopwith "Triplane" (N38057, 1916 reproduction by Carl Swanson)
• SPAD XIII (NX3883F/S/15155/26, 1917 S.13 reproduction by Richard Day)
• Vickers Supermarine "Spitfire Mk.IX" (N8R/NL R/MJ772, s/n CBAF 7269, 1943)
• Yakovlev Yak-9U "Frank" (36, c/n 01815346)

References

1. Wikipedia, Champlin Fighter Museum
2. Shupek, John. 4/16/2000 Champlin Fighter Museum aircraft photos from the Skytamer Archive