Collection in Arizona

Kilian · 29 September 2007, 07:39 AM

Can someone tell me the website URL for the best known museum in Arizona? Ive seen a tv documentation about it but i cant remember the name. They have or are planning to restore a Fieseler Storch.

stephen · 29 September 2007, 08:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Kilian

Can someone tell me the website URL for the best known museum in Arizona? Ive seen a tv documentation about it but i cant remember the name. They have or are planning to restore a Fieseler Storch.

You're probably referring to the Champlain Fighter Museum, which was disbanded and sold off a few years ago. I think much of the collection went to another museum in Seattle, but someone else will have to fill us in on that.

Kilian · 29 September 2007, 11:32 AM

Thanks Stephen. This might well be. I dunno how old the documentation was.

airknocker · 29 September 2007, 01:57 PM

The largest collection in AZ is the Pima Air Museum Home It is constantly working on new acquisitions and restoration projects with a large supply of volunteers from the military personnel and retirees. Yes, they do have a Moraine Storch! Pima Air Museum - Moraine-Saulnier Criquet

jtisch · 2 October 2007, 03:38 PM

The bulk of the Champlin museum is up here in Seattle at the Museum of Flight.

J

davecww1 · 3 October 2007, 04:39 PM

Wow, the Pima Air Museum looks huge! Must be bigger than Wright Patterson, having a B-36 and 3 different B-52's not to mention all of the 4 engine WW2 bombers, unfortunately I did not see any WW1 aircraft, just a wright flyer replica!
Dave

Reinout · 24 October 2007, 11:42 PM

Dave: I noticed they're working on an Albatros D.Va replica.

Very impressive museum by the way!

Kind regards,

Reinout

Kilian · 25 October 2007, 05:25 AM

Thanks all for your postings. Ill have a look at Seattle museum page.

Kilian

dpolglaze · 25 October 2007, 10:38 AM

When Champlin decided to sell a few years back, I was glad that someone took the bulk of the collection. Indeed it was the Museum of Flight in Seattle.

I got to Champlin before they sold to the Museum of Flight, and I really enjoyed my visit. There was opportunity to get close in to the planes, and walk around them from all angles. They were all on the ground. When I was there, they were training docents. The trainer noticed that I had been wandering around the WWI hangar for quite some time, and he told me to stick around so we could "go behind the ropes." I got pictures of cockpits, and closeups that you just can't get at museums today.

The Museum of Flight is one of those less accessible museums. It's quite dark, and a lot of the planes are hung from the ceiling and very hard to get pictures of, see into, etc... It's kind of a shame. Still, they're there and you can at least get a look. It's not the same, however.

I've compared my pictures from both places. The Champlin ones were taken with a point and shoot cheap 35mm camera with a built in flash. The Museum of Flight ones were taken with a nice Canon digital SLR. I'll take the cheap 35 mm shots every day of the week.

Too bad, really.

Dan