how many planes are still left?

[LCADolby]

Near where I live there is 2 Lancasters. 1 flys the other is taxi runs only.

[skorpion]

In nevada, about 20 mins out of las vegas there is an F4U1A, P51-D, B29-A and a B24-J. all in working condition along with a nice F-14 sitting there. id love to take a ride in all of those birds.

[stroker71]

The airzoo in Kalmazoo has several flyable WW2 planes.  They can't fly them anymore because of 911 caused the insurance to skyrocket. 


www.airzoo.org

DuHasst

[Raptor]

There is a B25C being "preserved" in Columbia, SC. I drive by it from time to time and some days they will have it out working on it.
http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/restoration.html

[BaldEagl]

iirc we have about a dozen preserved navy ships and boats total, they are all pretty cool though. Victory and Warrior are just jaw-dropping.

I'd guess there's more than that.  I've been on the USS Slater (destroyer escort, Albany, NY), the USS Intrepid (Aircraft Carrier, NY, NY) and a couple others moored with the Intrepid.  IIRC the Intrepid has at least an F6F and an F4U onboard which were below decks when I was there.

[EDIT]  There's close to 150 US naval museum ships listed here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museum_ships the majority of which are WWII era.

[Ruah]

Black 6 is th only origional 109 flying, the others are reconstructed from various parts - I think a total of 1 F (black 6) and 2 Gs (reconstructed from various parts - but close to origional), recently a reconstructed near completly origional 190 A5 flew. . . And I think th French have on of the origional Yak-3s from the NN squad in a museum - but its not in flying condition.

These are the only 3 plane  types I really follow - and my information is spotty at best.

[Serenity]

I'd guess there's more than that.  I've been on the USS Slater (destroyer escort, Albany, NY), the USS Intrepid (Aircraft Carrier, NY, NY) and a couple others moored with the Intrepid.  IIRC the Intrepid has at least an F6F and an F4U onboard which were below decks when I was there.

[EDIT]  There's close to 150 US naval museum ships listed here:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museum_ships the majority of which are WWII era.

Holmes, being from England, was probably referring to THEM only having a dozen ships.

[Baggy]

Thats correct Serenity. As Holmes said, we were completely skint at wars end and the scrap value outweighed historic value! There's a Boulton Paul Defiant being restored down the road from me at Rochester.

[Muzzy]

The British needn't feel so bad...after all, the Yanks blew their chance to preserve Enterprise.

[Melvin]

The British needn't feel so bad...after all, the Yanks blew their chance to preserve Enterprise.

Wow, you know how to hit a guy where it hurts.

That was a tragedy of epic proportions. I've got a book about the Enterprise, and it has some pictures of her being chopped up. Just awful.

  

[1sum41]

here in Georgetown theres a P51D, a B25J a couple Texans, a Twin Beech, a chinese trainer(cant remember what its called) theres a couple others i dont remember what they are. 

[321BAR]

here in Georgetown theres a P51D, a B25J a couple Texans, a Twin Beech, a chinese trainer(cant remember what its called) theres a couple others i dont remember what they are. 

51Dweeb

Show vids of you flying that thing please!

[1sum41]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6_p_OHO0h0
Theres a Backseat shot from earlier this year, with Robert Garriott at the controls.

[Liberator]

There's two B-24s still in the air. One is a B-24A owned by the CAF, the other a J owned by the Collings Foundation. I got to go inside the J with my grandpa. It was pretty cool, and it had been 65 years since my grandpa had been in a B-24.

[STXAce8]

In Texas right outside of Dallas is Cavanague air meuseum. There is my Uncle Joes B-25J he flew 69 missions as a tailgunner, it still flies but they don't fly it anymore because it is the most complete B-25 in the world.