Warbirds over the Beach airshow, Virginia Beach Airport, Pungo, Virginia |
Virginia Beach Airport is owned by the founder of the Military Aviation Museum and the Fighter Factory, Gerald "Jerry" Yagen. Several large modern hangars are complemented by one imported from the German military airfield of Cottbus, near Berlin, and a wooden purpose-built WW1 hangar.
The airshow was held on the weekend of the 20th and 21st of May, with an arrivals and rehearsals day on Friday the 19th. The museum's amazing collection of warbirds was complemented by several visitors, including some from the Commemorative Air Force. Because of poor weather on the Saturday, airshow flying was limited to the Sunday. The show itself was disappointing, consisting of the warbirds circling in fours at one end of the airfield, some distance from the crowd, with no flybys or photo passes, so photography was limited to taxying, takeoffs and landings. It was also a shame that the museum's Me262, based away from the airport because it can't operate from grass runways, went tech, as did the Ju52, which was limited to taxying. But at least we saw the Mossie fly, including in a distant formation with the Spitfire and Hurricane! |
Aircraft | Reg'n | Thumbs | Notes |
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Albatros DVa replica | N482UT 'D5397/17' | Ex D-EGKO, G-BFXL and was on display at the FAA Museum, Yeovilton. | |
Avro 504K replica | 'H5991' | ||
Beech A36 Bonanza | N1592L | On photo duties. | |
Beech G18S | N9918R | Visitor | |
Beech M35 Bonanza | N9819R | Visitor | |
Beech T-34A Mentor | N56NT 550221 2P-0221 117 | US Navy markings. Ex N53GP. | |
Bell P-63A Kingcobra | 42-68941 N191H | Commemoratve AF, USAF markings. Bell retained this as a test aircraft. Ex N75488 (NX75488). | |
Bell P-63A Kingcobra | 42-70609 White 17 | Russian AF. Origins uncertain. | |
Bleriot XI-2 replica | N791X | Built in Canada as C-FBLW, crashed on its first flight in Quebec in August 2012. Now completely rebuilt. | |
Bleriot XI-2 replica | N913BL 30 | Built in 2015 by Pierre Racette, who also built N791X. This looks much more like C-FBLW than N791X does. Explanation welcome... | |
Boeing P-26D Peashooter replica | NX26PX (N26PX) 6 | ||
Boeing Stearman B75N1 PT-17 N2S-3 Kaydet | 41-25254 N41EE 743 | US Navy. Ex N52507. | |
Bucker (Doflug) Bu-133C Jungmeister | N38BU (NX38BU) | Ex Swiss AF U-91, HB-MIW, G-AYSJ, D-EHVP. | |
CASA 352L (Junkers Ju52) | N352JU (NX352JU) as '1Z+AR' | Ex Spanish AF T.2B-176, N99059. | |
Cessna 177B Cardinal | N30805 | Visitor | |
Cessna 180 | N9172C | Visitor | |
Cessna 182S Skylane | N9342F | Visitor | |
Cessna 182T | N576CA | Civil Air Patrol | |
Cessna 305A L-19 O-1 Bird Dog | N112MC | Marked as USAF '01397'. | |
Cirrus SR22 | N899AM | Visitor | |
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina | 48294 N9521C | US Navy | |
Control tower | This watch office was imported brick by brick from Goxhill Airfield, south of the Humber at Hull, UK. Goxhill opened in 1941 and used mainly for training by the USAAF. | ||
Cottbus Hangar | Designed to be transportable, this 1934 hangar is from Cottbus, near Berlin, where, along with Luftwaffe operations, Focke Wulf produced Fw200s, Fw190s and Ta152s. | ||
Curtiss C-46F Commando | 44-78774 N78774 | Commemorative AF "The Tinker Belle". Ex PanAm N74178, Riddle Airlines, Argonaut Airways, Ortner Air Services N608SE. | |
Curtiss JN-4D Jenny | NX6898C (N6898C) 34135 | ||
Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk 1A | 41-35927 N1941P (NX1941P) 108 | Ex RAF ET573, Russian AF 1025. Recovered in 1992 and restored, mainly in New Zealand by 2003. | |
Curtiss-Ely Model D Pusher replica | NX44VY (N44VY) | The first plane to land on a US ship - the start of naval aviation. More of this on my Oshkosh 2011 page. | |
De Havilland Canada DH98 Mosquito FB26 | KA114 N114KA EG-Y | Restored by Avspecs in New Zealand as ZK-MOS. | |
De Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk T10 | N559WK WK559 | RAF | |
De Havilland DH82A Tiger Moth II | N6463 T-5525 | Ex T5525, VH-BFO, VT-CSZ, CF-EIQ. | |
De Havilland DH89A Mk6 Dragon Rapide | NX89DH (N89DH) 'G‑ADDD' | Ex HG724, G-AKPA, EI-AML, F-BLHZ. In King's Flight markings. | |
Douglas AD-4 Skyraider | 123827 N23827 (NX23827) B-501 | US Navy. Ex N54162. | |
Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless | 54532 NL82GA (N82GA) 5 | Commemorative AF. US Navy. Ex NL94513 (N94513), Mexican AF, XB-QUC, N54532. | |
Fairchild J2K-2 F-24R Argus | N81348 | Commemorative AF. US Coast Guard Miss Cherie II. | |
Fairchild M-62A PT-19A Cornell | 42-83643 N129PT 129 | USAF. | |
Fairchild M-62A PT-19A Cornell | N323CJ 23 | USAF 'Amelia', unknown serial, c/n T43-5778. I had a ride out to the coast and back in this - lovely. | |
Fiat G-46-3B | MM53091 N46FM | Italian AF. Ex I-AEHX. | |
Fieseler Fi103 V-1 | Flying bomb in the museum entrance hall. | ||
Fighter Factory hangar | |||
Flug Werk FW-190A replica | N190BR | ||
Flug Werk FW-190D replica | N623TB as 'Black 12 210079' | ||
Focke Wulf Fw-44J Stieglitz | N183FW D-2692 | Stieglitz = goldfinch. German AF markings, ex LV-YYX, D-EHDH, OO-JKT, G-STIG. | |
Focke Wulf Fw-190A | N90FW 732183 Black 4 | ||
Fokker CI replica | N817BP as '17268/18' | ||
Fokker DR1 replica | N14TJ as '1730 FI103/17' | ||
Fokker DR1 replica | N900TP as '581/17' | ||
Fokker DR1 replica | PU-JDZ '0425 425/17' | Redfern Fokker - one of a series built by Wimpy Redfern in Idaho from plans with input from Peter M Bowers and Reinhold Platz, one of the original designers. | |
Fokker D-VI replica | N29WR | A replica from the Walter Redfern Company. | |
Fokker D-VII replica | N1918F | ||
Fokker D-VII replica | N1918P as '6880/18' | ||
Fokker D-VIII replica | NX8105D (N8105D) | ||
Fokker EIII Eindecker replica | N915E as '419/15' | ||
Grumman (GM) FM-2 Wildcat | 47030 NL315E (N315E) 30 | US Navy | |
Grumman (GM) TBM-3E Avenger | 53454 N7030C (NR7030C) 10 | US Marines | |
Grumman (GM) TBM-3E Avenger | 91426 N40402 P87 | Commemorative AF, US Navy "Doris Mae". Ex Canadian Navy 91426, CF-MUE. | |
Halberstadt CL-IV replica | N6175J | German AF markings. | |
Hawker (CC&F) Hurricane IIB | N943HH as 'V6793 DZ-O' | RAF markings - ex Canadian AF 5667, N2549. | |
Jerry Yagen | Jerry in the scarf, with Mark Todd, a Commemorative AF pilot. | ||
Laister-Kauffman LK-10 Yankee Doodle 2 TG-4A | N51462 | Yankee Doodle 2 is the manufacturer's name for the model. | |
Lavochkin La-9 Fritz | N415ML White 28 | Russian AF markings. Ex Russian AF, Chinese AF, G-BWUD of OFMC, restored in New Zealand as ZK-LIX. | |
Lippisch P 13a replica | There are several other German WW2 project (re)creations in the hangar.. | ||
Messerschmitt Bf109G | N109GY 19257 Black 1 | German AF. Restored as D-BOON. | |
MiG-3 | N107FB (NX107FB) White 17 | Russian AF. Composite Russian restoration based on an airframe found in Murmansk in 2001. | |
Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 floatplane | 02892 N120BH | US Navy | |
Nieuport 11 scale replica fuselage | N982 | 7/8 scale. French AF markings as 'Vieux Charles' of Georges Guynemer. | |
Nieuport 17 replica | NX1918C (N1918C) 42 | ||
Nord 1002 Pingouin II (Messerschmitt Bf108) | N108ZZ (NX108ZZ) 258 Yellow 4 | German AF markings. | |
Nord 1101 Noralpha (Messerschmitt Bf208) | N208K (NX208K) 162 Yellow 14 | German AF markings. Ex G-ATHH, F-BLQS. | |
North American SNJ-4 Texan as Nakajima B5N2 Kate | 27675 N7062C as 'BII-310' | Japanese Navy markings. Ex US Navy. Converted around 1990. | |
North American SNJ-4 Texan as P-64 | NX22518 (N22518) as '06' | Ex US Navy 51363. | |
North American SNJ-5 Texan | N502 43689 CB-502 | US Navy | |
North American T-6G Texan | 49-3071 N2996Q ANG-231 | USAF, Ex Spanish AF C.16-195, E.16-195. | |
North American T-6G Texan | 49-3087 N3173G TA-087 | USAF | |
North American T-6G Texan | N3HG 43-3097 | USAF | |
North American AT-6C Texan (Harvard IIA) | N42GK 4-N-4 | US Navy markings. Ex USAF 41-33455, RAF EX482. | |
North American AT-6D Texan (Harvard III) | N623DC 41-3400 | US Marines markings. Ex USAF 41-3400, RAF EZ127, Dominican AF 1051, HI-734SP. | |
North American AT-6D Texan (Harvard III) | N796WM 94 | USAF 41-34011, RAF EZ138, South African AF 7529, Gabon Presidential Guard B, SAAF 7002. | |
North American AT-6G Texan | N6253C 6-F-1 40 | Ex USAF 49-2943. Marked as a US Navy SNJ-6. | |
North American P-51D Mustang | 44-73843 N10601 (NL10601) QP-G | USAF | |
North American P-51D Mustang IV | 44-63507 N51EA (NL51EA) as '463684 SX-B' | USAF, "Double Trouble two", ex Canadian AF 9554, N6345T, N38FF, N12073 ntu, N13410. | |
North American T-28D Nomad | 49-1634 NX99160 (N99160) 1634 77 | Ex N9878C, Zaire AF FG-634. US Navy markings. | |
North American B-25J Mitchell | 44-30129 N7947C | USAF "Wild Cargo". | |
North American TB-25K Mitchell | 44-29869 NL27493 (N27493) as '327493' | Commemorative AF. USAF "Miss Mitchell", ex N3160G | |
Piper NE-1 (J3C-65) | N23464 3196 | US Navy "GLIMPY". Used in 1944 for testing attachment to a blimp for taking the blimp's recce photos back to base quickly. | |
Piper PA-28-140 Cherokee Cruiser | N6177W | Visitor | |
Polikarpov I-15bis | N3815R (NX3815R) Red 7 | Russian AF. Ex RA-02915. | |
Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 | N1639P 28 | Russian AF. Ex 34, restored as ZK-JIO. | |
Polikarpov I-153 Chaika | N153RP (NX153RP) Red 16 | Chaika = seagull. Russian AF. Ex 16, restored as ZK-JKN. | |
Polikarpov Po-2 | N3602 01 yellow | Russian AF markings | |
Radioplane BTT OQ-19D target drone | In the museum entrance hall. US Army. BTT = Basic Training Target. | ||
Sopwith 11⁄2 (1.5) Strutter replica | N4088H | Airworthy replica made for film "Fly Boys at Halton". | |
Sopwith Pup scale replica | 3/4 scale - in the museum entrance hall. | ||
SPAD SXIII replica | N422RC | Third photo is the second rotated so you don't have to. | |
Stinson L-5 OY-1 Sentinel | 5060 N9315H WB-1 | Commemorative AF. Ex USAF 42-15060, US Coast Guard 5060, now in US Marines markings as 15060 "Nasty Break V". | |
Stinson L-5E Sentinel | 44-17588 N57WT | ||
Supermarine Spitfire LFIXe | MJ730 N730MJ GZ-? | Ex Canadian AF, RAF, Italian AF MM4094, Israeli AF 0606, G-FEDX ntu, G-BLAS, G-HFIX. | |
Vans RV-12 | N233WB | Visitor | |
Vought (Goodyear) FG-1D Corsair | 92508 N46RL 31 | US Navy, ex N7225C, N46WB, N46LF. | |
Vultee BT-13B SNV-2 Valiant as Aichi D3A Val | N56867 (NX56867) as 'BI-211' | Japanese Navy markings. Converted around 1969 for the Tora Tora Tora film. | |
Waco YMF | N40116 | ||
Wright 1911 EX Vin Fiz replica | In the museum entrance hall. | ||
Yakovlev Yak-3M | N42YK (NX42YK) White 7 | 1991 new build as a Yak-3UA. Ex N494DJ, ZS-STU, restored in Germany as D-FYAG after damage. |