Focke-Wulf Fw 190 F-8 Werknummer 931862 nearing completion of its restoration at GossHawk Unlimited in Casa Grande, Arizona. This aircraft was shot down in Norway on February 9, 1945 during the Black Friday raid on Førde Fjord. It is to be displayed at the American Heritage Museum in Hudson, MA.

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Let L-200 Morava, a touring/light passenger aircraft developed in the 1950s in Czechoslovakia.

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Focke-Wulf Fw 190A-8/N operated by the Planes of Fame Air Museum in Chino, California. A full-scale replica built by Flug Werk GmbH and powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-2800 due to the lack of BMW 801s, it is painted in the markings of an A-9 flown by Sturmstaffel 1 ace Oskar Bosch, who had 18 kills.

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Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik before and after restoration at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona (from the museum's Facebook). Shot down and preserved in a lake near Leningrad, this aircraft was acquired by the museum in 2002. The aircraft is now on display and the museum is open right now.

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Ilyushin Il-2M Shturmovik at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. This example was shot down during the Siege of Leningrad and is now on display in one of the museum's hangars.

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Junkers Ju 87 R-2/Trop Werknummer 5954 at the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, IL. This aircraft was captured by British forces in 1941 in North Africa, and delivered to the US for evaluation in WWII. Besides the Stuka in the RAF Museum, it is the last intact Stuka in a museum.

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Martin B-262B Marauder Flak Bait being conserved at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. Flak Bait flew 206 missions from 1943 to 1945, more than any other American bomber in WWII. When completed, the aircraft will be displayed fully assembled at the museum, retaining it's original WWII paint and damage

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German officers inspect a downed P-47D Thunderbolt flown by Polish-American ace Francis Gabby Gabreski, July 20, 1944, near Niedermendig, Germany. Gabreski was scheduled to return home that day, but asked to fly just one more. He clipped the ground while on a strafing run, and was later captured

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B-17G Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby. This B-17 flew 24 missions before landing in Sweden after receiving too much damage to return to England. It flew in Sweden, Denmark, and France before it was restored to its wartime condition for the USAF Museum. Now in storage awaiting transport to the Smithsonian.

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Vought F4U-1A Corsair and Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat at Planes of Fame, May 2020. The Bearcat had just made it's first post-restoration flight that month and has a complete paint job now. The Corsair here is a WWII combat veteran of the Pacific campaign, and flew in the 1970s series Baa Baa Black Sheep.

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Pathfinder Plus at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It was a high-altitude, solar-powered, unmanned experimental aircraft intended to explore the possibilities of unlimited-duration, high-altitude reconnaissance.

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Northrop P-61B Black Widow 42-39715 at the Beijing Air and Space Museum in China. This aircraft was assigned to the 427th Night Fighter Sqaudron, which served in China in 1945, and was conficated by Chinese Communists in Sichuan Province in exchange for letting American forces in the region go home.

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Horten Ho 229 V3 replica at the San Diego Air & Space Museum. This was made by Northrop Grumman for the National Geographic documentary Hitler's Stealth Fighter to test the radar signature of the design.

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Mitsubishi A6M7 Model 62 Zero on display at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. It has been on loan from the National Air and Space Museum since 1981, when it arrived from restoration, and has been on display since 1984.

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Custer Channel Wing (CCW) 1 at the National Air and Space Museum's Paul Garber Storage Facility. It was a STOL capable aircraft (Short Take Off and Landing). Flown from 1942 to 1946, it was donated to the Smithsonian in 1961, but it has never been displayed inside the museum's exhibit spaces.

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German ace Hans-Joachim Marseille standing next to a Hawker Hurricane Mk.IIB he shot down in North Africa, March 31, 1942.

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General Motors (Eastern Aircraft Division) FM-2 Bureau Number 74120 at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. (Photo from the museum's website).

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Boeing Condor experimental UAV from 1988 at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, CA.

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Two MXY-7 Model 43 K-1 Kai two-seat trainers being inspected by US Navy personnel. Powered by a single Type 4 Mk I Model 20 rocket motor and fitted with flaps and landing skis, this variant of the Ohka, known as the Wakazakura (若桜, Young Cherry), was not fitted with explosives.

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