Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum
Kissimmee, Florida
A short stop at Tom Reilly’s Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum to tour the grounds and see what he is working on in the hangers. There are numerous aircraft in various stages of restoration scattered throughout the hangers.
September 2000
Walking in to Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum.
A-26 Invader that appears to be close to/if not ready for flight.
B-25 Mitchell "Killer B" with F-8 Crusader in the background.
Focke-Wulf 190F-8 "White 1" under restoration.
Focke-Wulf 190F-8 with leading edge of the wing missing.
Details written on the rudder about the downing of this Focke-Wulf 190F-8.
Lower cowling removed giving access to the BMW 801 14-cylinder radial engine.
Focke-Wulf 190F-8 "White 1".
Crumpled remains of a P-38 Lightning.
Mig 21
B-17G "Suzy Q" under restoration with new skin panels installed.
Pilot uniform on display.
Supermarine Spitfire OWK in the restoration hanger. B-17G "Suzy Q" can be seen in the background to the left. An A-4 Skyhawk to the right of the Spitfire.
Wedell-Williams Racer Gilmore "Red Lion" #121. Now located in the Wedell-Williams Aviation & Cypress Sawmill Museum in Patterson, Louisiana
Link Trainer - A flight simulator produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s. During World War II, they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation.