Aviation Museums
and airworthy collections
The Collins Foundation
Stow, Massachusetts
Founded in 1979 by Robert F. Collings and Caroline Collings, the Collings Foundation is a private non-profit educational foundation with a mission dedicated to the preservation and public display of automobile and aviation history. With a satellite operations base at Ellington Field Houston, Texas, the organisation operates both Korean and Vietnamese War jets and helicopters.
Date of visit: 19th October 2018 (Wings over Houston Airshow)
Collection as listed November 2019EARLY AVIATION COLLECTION
1909 Curtiss Pusher
1909 Bleriot Type XI
1911 Wright Vin Fiz (Replica)
WORLD WAR II COLLECTION
Curtiss P-40B WARHAWK
41-13297 / 284 (ex-G-CDWH The Fighter Collection - Transferred to the USA in December 2013)
also
Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress
Boeing PT-17 Tuskegee Stearman
Cessna UC-78 Bobcat
Consolidated B-24J Liberator
Grumman FM-2 Wildcat
Grumman G-21 Goose
Grumman TBM Avenger
Messerschmitt ME-262
North American A-36
North American B-25 Mitchell
North American TP-51C Mustang
North American TF-51D Mustang
Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX
Waco UPF-7
KOREAN WAR COLLECTION
Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star
51-6953 TR-953 / N648
also
North American AT-6F Texan
Vought F4U-5NL Corsair
VIETNAM WAR COLLECTION
Grumman US-2A Tracker
USN 133242 / N31957
McDonnell Douglas F-4D Phantom
USAF 65-0749 / N749CF
North American TF-100F Super Sabre
USAF 56-3844 (displayed as 63-951 / SS) / N26AZ
also
Bell UH-1E Iroquois
Douglas A-1E Skyraider
McDonnell TA-4J Skyhawk
UNDER RESTORATION
Douglas A-26 Invader
Fairchild PT-19A “Tuskegee Airmen”
Focke Wulf Fw 190 F-8
Grumman F6F-3N Hellcat