The Combat Air Museum is a non-profit aviation museum at Topeka Regional Airport (Forbes Field) in Shawnee County, near Topeka, Kansas. The museum is dedicated to the creation of facilities and resources for the education of the local and regional communities through the collection, preservation, conservation and exhibition of aircraft, information, artifacts, technology and art associated with the military aviation history of the United States.
History
In the autumn of 1976, the Combat Air Museum in Topeka, Kansas organized as a wing of Yesterday's Air Force (YAF) (of David Tallichet). In 1979, the group reorganized as "Combat Air Museum," relocating to Forbes Field Hangar #602.
Collection
Today, the museum has 43 aircraft, mostly military (mostly American), representing World War I to the present day (especially jets from the 1950s to the 1980s), plus various aircraft engines, military vehicles and other military displays.
Aircraft
Airco DH-2 – replica
Beech RU-8D Seminole
Beech SNB-5
Bell UH-1H Iroquois
Bell UH-1M Iroquois
Cessna AT-17 Bobcat
Curtiss JN-4D – replica
Douglas C-47D Skytrain "Kilroy" Douglas F3D-2 Skyknight Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk Etrich Taube – scale replica Fairchild UC-61K Forwarder Fokker Dr.I – replica Fokker E.IV – replica Grumman F9F-5 Panther Grumman F11F-1 Tiger Grumman F-14A Tomcat Grumman US-2A Tracker Hiller OH-23A Raven – under reconstruction Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star McDonnell F-101B Voodoo McDonnell F-4D Phantom II Messerschmitt Bf 109 G-10 – scale mockup Meyers OTW Serial #1 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21PF Nieuport 27 – flying replica North American F-86H Sabre North American Harvard IV Pfalz E.I – scale replica PZL-Mielec Lim-2 PZL-Mielec Lim-6R Republic F-84F Thunderstreak Republic F-105D Thunderchief Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 – replica Sikorsky CH-53A Sea Stallion Sikorsky CH-54B Tarhe Sopwith Scout – full-scale replica Vultee BT-13 Valiant