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Champlin Fighter Museum

About 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. 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.

It also published books related to aviation, such as Henry Sakaida's 1985 book Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots.

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Photos of Champlin Fighter Museum

  1. Champlin Fighter Museum, Mesa01MesaBzuk · Public domain
  2. T34 treads, cast, spoked, road wheels, rubber tires starboard side02T34 treads, cast, spoked, road wheels, rubber tires starboard sideBill Abbott · CC BY-SA 2.0
  3. Soviet T-34 starboard profile, back of turret03Soviet T-34 starboard profile, back of turretBill Abbott · CC BY-SA 2.0

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