Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum (FHCAM) is home to a rare collection of vintage military aircraft, tanks, combat armor and other technologies. Nearly every plane and piece of armor on display is restored and maintained to the highest standards. In fact, most of our artifacts are in working condition.
Maintaining a vintage operational collection is painstaking work! Our mechanics are subject matter experts and masters of their craft. They have expertise in a wide variety of foreign and domestic aircraft, vehicles, and machinery that is generations old, coupled with the skill to perform the work, which often involves fabricating parts from scratch. They perform their work out on the museum floor, so it’s common for guests to see them actively engaged in a project.
Nothing compares to hearing the Hellcat’s engine start up, watching the Sherman Tank roar around the track, or feeling the percussive blast from the 88 Flak Gun firing blanks. Visit and partake in the vibrant, living history experience that we offer!
FEATURED ARTIFACT
Photo by: John Dibbs
The Supermarine Spitfire was an iconic and groundbreaking British fighter and the only Allied fighter aircraft to remain in production throughout the entire Second World War. It was designed as a short-range, high-performance fighter. It is widely considered to be the most elegant of the World War II fighters with its distinctive elliptical wings.
The Spitfire became famous during the Battle of Britain in 1940 when the German invasion of Britain was thwarted by the heavily outnumbered RAF. The Mk. V variant, with over 6,500 built, was the most-produced version of the Spitfire. Three different versions (A, B, C) were built with different armament and some with different wings. The C version had a universal wing capable of taking eight .303-inch machine guns, two cannons and four machine guns or four cannons.
You can see the Supermarine Spitfire on display at FHCAM in Hangar B.
