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Aircraft displayed inside airport terminals

I was “de-planing” at Chicago-Midway last month and couldn’t help noticing this
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b202/aero101/0086-1.jpg
as I walked down the concourse.

Its a Douglas SBD Dauntless which was recovered from Lake Michigan and which now forms the main part of the new Battle of Midway Memorial.

It got me thinking – I’ve seen quite a few genuine aircraft displayed in a similar manner at various US airports … can we get a thread going to illustrate them?

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By: battle_damaged - 16th December 2008 at 12:52

Dont know if this is still there….will replace with my pic from 2002 when I can find it!! 🙂

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Let-Aero-Ae-45S/0636680/L/

OK-KGF at Prague Airport – Seems still to be there, at least in September 2008: http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=OK-KGF

Jetflap – there is little left at Frankfurt, believe Guenther Kurfiss had to remove all his aircraft many years ago due to the revamp that was made to the place. Last I heard there were a couple of fuselage parts, maybe the Wessex still on the visitor’s platform on Terminal A, hwvr since 9/11 access has been intermittent. I’ll get an uupdate shortly.
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By: Arabella-Cox - 16th December 2008 at 09:04

On display in the terminal at Ronaldsway Isle of Man is an (the?) Eider Duck, a home built. Apparently the aircraft has never flown. It is on the BAPC register as no 282.

If I were a bit more computer savy I would be able to post an image as I have an “electric” picture of the aircraft.

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By: flyernzl - 15th December 2008 at 19:19

I think Kingsford Smith’s ‘Southern Cross’ is in Brisbane International.

Bri 🙂

In a separate building, well away from the terminals.

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By: bri - 15th December 2008 at 15:08

I think Kingsford Smith’s ‘Southern Cross’ is in Brisbane International.

Bri 🙂

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By: Loose-Head - 15th December 2008 at 10:38

There is this replica of Karl Jatho’s early machine at Hanover Airport, (as well as bits and pieces of a 747) which was allegedly first flown on August 18th 1903, thus, if true, pre-dating the Wright Brothers by 4 months.

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By: battle_damaged - 14th December 2008 at 13:04

This Stampe was to be seen at Brussels Airport in 1997:

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By: WB981 - 13th December 2008 at 12:37

Bergen Flesland

I forgot to mention in the last post that there was an SG-38, LN-GGL hanging up in the terminal at Bergen in 1992.

There is a photo of this glider at www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1105184

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By: WB981 - 13th December 2008 at 12:30

Ljubljana

There are 2 gliders displayed above the check in desks at Ljubljana. A SG-38 and A Jastreb 54.

There is a photo of the Jastreb at www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1075261

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By: Arabella-Cox - 6th October 2008 at 23:48

Cincinnatti

At Cincinnatti-Lunken, Ohio, there’s a small, yellow, single-engined type hanging up in the main entrance. It looked like a Piper Cub but to me, but, not being too well up on light aircraft, it may not have been.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 5th October 2008 at 15:30

There used to be a Rapide in the main terminal at Frankfurt. Still there?

I last went to Frankfurt in 1987, when they had quite a collection of airframes on a gallery inside the terminal – as well as the Dragon Rapide there was a Tiger Moth, Stampe SV4C, Klemm KL35, Buecker Bestmann and Buecker Jungmann. There was also a Morane-Saulnier MS317 suspended over the concourse. On top of that there were quite a few more aircraft outside on the roof-top ‘Besucherterasse’. It would be a shame if that has been closed, but with modern security concern it wouldn’t surprise me.

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By: Mark12 - 5th October 2008 at 09:56

That’s the Ross & Keith Smith Vimy at Adelaide, South Australia.
Not exactly in the terminal building, but in a separate structure within the airport carpark, as is Kingsford-Smith’s Fokker VH-USU at Brisbane.

For more on the Vimy:

http://peterlewisdesign.tripod.com/australia/classicaircraftadelaide.htm

As your web page advises – a very difficult aircraft to photograph. I settled for slight reflections off the protective glass from the front and reduced them with PSP. Image taken March 2006.

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By: flyernzl - 5th October 2008 at 02:34

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/Mark12/Album%204/Img_1434jpg156_5610.jpg

That’s the Ross & Keith Smith Vimy at Adelaide, South Australia.
Not exactly in the terminal building, but in a separate structure within the airport carpark, as is Kingsford-Smith’s Fokker VH-USU at Brisbane.

For more on the Vimy:

http://peterlewisdesign.tripod.com/australia/classicaircraftadelaide.htm

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By: Papa Lima - 4th October 2008 at 20:59

Junkers A-50 Junior, easily found by googling!

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By: Mark12 - 4th October 2008 at 20:53

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/Mark12/Album%204/Img_1434jpg156_5610.jpg

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By: Trickshot - 4th October 2008 at 20:22

Helsinki – Vantaa

Nice old plane hanging from the roof of the main departure area. Apologies but I have not been able to identify it or it’s connection to the airport or to Finnair.

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By: Arabella-Cox - 4th October 2008 at 18:36

This record breaking Junkers is kept in a German airport terminal (guess which one:p) along with a FW 44 and a chunk of the International Space Station[ATTACH]165945[/ATTACH]

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By: Resmoroh - 4th October 2008 at 16:31

At the risk of having my uniform buttons cut off with my sword, and then having that broken as part of my disgrace . . .
How about the 747 that appears in the airport departure lounge in the film “Airport” (or “Aeroplane” – I can’t remember). But that episode (with the attendant shower of broken glass) put me in mind of a number of occasions when some of Her Majesty’s Royal Aeroplane Men had allowed some of Her (or Her Father’s) airframes to come into too close a proximity to airfield buildings.
I appreciate that this post may be accused of Thread hi-jack (or -drift) but so be it!
HTH
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By: ozplane - 4th October 2008 at 15:52

There used to be a Rapide in the main terminal at Frankfurt. Still there?

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By: Fouga23 - 4th October 2008 at 14:55

Seeing that reminded me about the Stampe SV-4 hanging in the departures area at Brussels Airport…….

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Belgium—Air/Stampe-Vertongen-SV-4B/0681948&tbl=photo_info&photo_nr=5&sok=keyword_%28%5C%27%2B%5C%22Stampe%5C%22_%2B%5C%22Brussels%5C%22%5C%27_IN_BOOLEAN_MODE%29%29_&sort=_order_by_photo_id_DESC_&prev_id=0813726&next_id=0513336

That one has been removed unfortunatly:(

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