Champlin Fighter Museum

Champlin Fighter Museum

The Champlin Fighter Museum was an aircraft museum located at Mesa, Arizona. It specialized in airworthy World War I and World War II fighters.[1] After 22 years of operation, the Museum was closed on May 26, 2003 and its collection was moved to the Museum of Flight at Seattle's Boeing Field.[2][3]

References

  1. ^ Arizona Republic article
  2. ^ Tillman, Barrett. "Fighters on the Move", Flight Journal magazine, August 2004 (online version). Retrieved 2009-11-28
  3. ^ Museum of Flight Fact Sheet - J. Elroy McCaw Personal Courage Wing retrieved 2009-11-28.

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