page_title: Fantasy of Flight
section_title: Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Fantasy of Flight / Collection
caption_attribution_description: English: Fantasy of Flight's Lockheed Vega
context_page_description: Fantasy of Flight is an aviation-related attraction in Polk City, Florida, United States that takes visitors back to the pioneering days of early flight, as well as the First and Second World Wars and beyond. The attraction opened in November 1995, and houses the world's largest private aircraft collection on display. It became the new home for much of owner Kermit Weeks' collection of aircraft that were previously housed at the Weeks Air Museum in Tamiami, Florida and were damaged to varying degrees by Hurricane Andrew in 1992. On April 6, 2014, the attraction was closed to the public, though it is still being maintained and is available for private events. On January 30, 2015, Fantasy of Flight opened a scaled-down museum attraction to display some of their aircraft to the public in the interim while the rest of the facility is upgraded and planned to reopen sometime in the future.
  Fantasy of Flight was the only attraction in the world to offer daily aerial demonstrations of aircraft in its collection. Most of Weeks' aircraft are airworthy and may still be seen flying from one of the facility's grass runways or its seaplane runway.
context_section_description: The Fantasy of Flight collection contains the following aircraft, although the aircraft are not always present at the museum. Some are on loan to other facilities, others may be flown to events, and still others may be off display for maintenance or restoration. Most of the collection is contained in the north and south hangars which are now closed to the public, with a smaller portion now on display at the interim museum attraction housed in the old maintenance hangar. In 2012, the "Golden Hill" storage facility attraction opened just across the road from the main facility. A number of aircraft have been re-located into this new building, notably the B-23 Dragon and the B-29 Superfortress nose section, while the buildings were re-arranged in order to allow visitor access, but this section was part of the main facility closure in 2014.
  Aerostar Balloon – N69FF
  Airco DH.4 – On display as U.S. Mail plane.
  Albatros D.Va – reproduction  (original Mercedes 6cyl, 200 hp engine) built by Peter Jackson’s aviation shop, The Vintage Aviator Ltd.
  Antonov An-2 – N4301U
  Avro Cadet – N643AV – This is one of eleven remaining Australian Cadets and one of only four which are still flying.
  Avro Lancaster – KB976 – Stored in a number of shipping boxes behind the museum's workshop. Nose was guillotined from the main body after a hangar collapse at Woodford Aerodrome in 1987. KB976 made the last official RCAF flight of this type with Flight Lieutenant Lynn Garrison as captain and Flt Lt Ralph Langemann as co-pilot during an air show in Calgary, Alberta July 4, 1964.
  Bachem Ba 349 Natter – reproduction
  "Barber" Valkyrie – reproduction
  Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing – N52962 – On display at the Florida Air Museum at Lakeland Linder International Airport.
  Beechcraft AT-11 Kansan – N92KC
  Bell 47G Helicopter – N147DP – On display in M*A*S*H 4077 paint scheme.
  Bell P-63 Kingcobra – N91448 – Formerly on loan to the Florida Air Museum, the plane was partially disassembled and returned to Fantasy of Flight on March 13, 2014.
  Benoist XIV – Full size reproduction was built at Fantasy of Flight in an attempt to recreate the first scheduled airline service (using a winged aircraft) on the 100th anniversary of its first flight on January 1, 2014. Though the plane was completely assembled and taxi tested, the plane could not achieve the necessary speed to lift off and was not flown at the event.
  Boeing 100 – Under off site restoration to flight status after being damaged by Hurricane Andrew at the former Weeks Air Museum.
  Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress – On display as USAAF Ser. No. 42-37994 (tail # 237994), "Piccadilly Princess." The B-17 "Susie Q" is in storage.
  Boeing B-29 Superfortress / Boeing P2B-1S (U.S. Navy variant of the B-29) – USAAF Ser. No. 45-21787 and USN/USMC Bureau Number (BuNo) 84029 "Fertile Myrtle". Aircraft transferred from USAAF to USN.  Restored cockpit and forward fuselage section on display along with other disassembled fuselage sections in storage at Fantasy of Flight's "Golden Hill" facility pending aircraft's restoration to airworthy at a date to be determined.
  Brown B-2 Racer – reproduction – Original aircraft destroyed in crash in 1939.
  Bucker Bestmann – N181BU – One of two remaining flying originals.
  Bucker Jungmann – N41455
  Bucker Jungmeister – N40BJ – On display in the colors of Romanian aerobatic pilot, Alexandru Papană.
  CAC Boomerang - Under restoration in Australia
  CAC Wirraway
  Cierva C.30A Autogiro
  Consolidated B-24J Liberator – N94459 "Joe" can be seen on the tram tour in the Maintenance Hangar. A B-24 nose is on display in the Officer's Club event facility adjacent to the North Hangar.
  Consolidated PBY 5A Catalina – N96UC is on display on the tarmac. An additional PBY is in storage.
  Curtiss JN-4D Jenny – N2404
  Curtiss Headless Pusher – reproduction
  Curtiss TP-40N Warhawk – N923 – The only factory-built dual-control TP-40 flying in the world today.
  Curtiss Robin – NC8313
  Curtiss Wright Junior – N10967
  Curtiss-Wright CW-19 N19RX – Delivered to Fantasy of Flight in March 2013. Made its first flight in 2014 and still under
caption: The Lockheed Vega painted in the scheme of Wiley Post's Winnie Mae.
exif: {"Image Make": "EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY", "Image Model": "KODAK EasyShare Z981 Digital Camera", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "480", "Image YResolution": "480", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Acorn version 3.2", "Image DateTime": "2011:04:16 02:41:54", "Image ExifOffset": "240", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/125", "EXIF FNumber": "7/2", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "64", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2011:04:16 02:41:54", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2011:04:16 02:41:54", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "Y", "EXIF ShutterSpeedValue": "7", "EXIF ApertureValue": "7/2", "EXIF BrightnessValue": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Partial", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "23/5", "EXIF Tag 0x9215": "64", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "000", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "000", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1000", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "563", "EXIF ExposureIndex": "64", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Custom", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "26", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0"}