Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum. The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is a U.S.A. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the display and preservation of rare military aircraft, tanks and other military equipment. The museum reopened on the Memorial Day Weekend 2023.

On rotation in the three working hangars are military artifacts from the United States, Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, and Japan.

The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is based at Seattle-Paine Field International Airport in Everett, WA. Mechanics are typically on-site Monday through Friday, working on maintaining the technology and operating condition. The museum provides guided tours three days a week, hosts a variety of activities, features war conflict simulators, and possesses countless historical artifacts.

History
In 1998, Microsoft Corporation co-founder Paul Allen began acquiring and preserving vintage aircraft. Allen's passion for aviation and history, and his awareness of the increasing rarity of original World War II aircraft, motivated him to restore these artifacts to the highest standard of authenticity and share them with the public.

The Collection opened to the public in 2004 at the Arlington, Washington, airfield, but in 2008 moved to a newly renovated historic industrial hangar located at Paine Field in Everett, Washington, United States. In 2013, the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum added a 22,000 square foot expansion hangar for its expanding collection. In 2018, came another expansion featuring the opening of Hangar C, which added over two dozen artifacts. On March 24, 2017, the Museum changed its name from the Flying Heritage Collection to the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum to reflect the transition from exclusively aircraft to a military vehicle & armament as well.  In 2018, the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum became a public 501c(3) nonprofit. On March 3, 2020, the Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum temporarily closed due to complications that arose as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April 2022, the industry magazine Air Classics reported that the museum's collection was sold, promising further details in its June issue. The Dutch Aviation Society reported that the buyer was Steuart Walton, grandson of Walmart founder Sam Walton.  The sale was confirmed by CNN and other media in August, 2022.  The plan is for the museum to remain in Everett; reopening in 2023 under the stewardship of the Wartime History Museum, a nonprofit established by Walton earlier in 2022.

Walmart heir Steuart Walton's nonprofit, the Wartime History Museum, acquired aviation artifacts from the FHCAM and reopened the museum on Memorial Day Weekend of 2023. The museum remains open to the public in Everett, WA.

List of warbirds

The Flying Heritage and Combat Armory has a number of historic artifacts. Their most valuable collection items are all aircraft. FHCAM also has a large collection of armored fighting vehicles.

United States 
North American P-51D Mustang

North American B-25J Mitchell

Republic P-47 Thunderbolt

Curtiss P-40C Tomahawk

Goodyear FG-1D Corsair

Grumman F6F Hellcat

Curtiss JN-4D Jenny

Bell UH-1B Iroquois "Huey"

United Kingdom 

Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Vc

Hawker Hurricane Mk.XIIAa

de Havilland D.H.98 Mosquito T.Mk.III

Avro Lancaster B. Mk.I (nose section)

Soviet Union 
Polikarpov I-16 Type 24 "Rata"

Polikarpov U-2/Po-2

Ilyushin II-2M3 Shturmovik

Imperial Japan 
Nakajima Ki-43 Hayabusa (Oscar)

Mitsubishi A6M3-22 Reisen (Zero or Zeke)

Germany 
Fiesler Fi 103 V-1

Fiesler Fi 103R Reichenberg

Fiesler Fi 156 C-2 Storch

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 A-5

Focke-Wulf Fw 190 D-13 (Dora)

Messerschmitt Me 262

Junkers Ju 87 R-4 Stuka - Under restoration

Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3 (Emil)

Messerschmitt Me 163 B Komet

Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 Rocket

List of tanks
The collection features a variety of vehicles and armament dating from WWII to some present-day artifacts. Most of the artifacts are from the United States, Germany, Japan, or the Soviet Union. However, many of these vehicles have changed hands many times before arriving at FHCAM.

United States 
M1A1 Abrams turret trainer

M8A1 Patton (Cut in Half)

M4A1 Sherman

M5A1 Stuart

M60A1 Patton

M24 Chaffee

M7B1 Priest

M8 Greyhound

M26 Pershing

M55 self-propelled howitzer

United Kingdom 
Churchill Mk VII Crocodile

Soviet Union 
FMDB T-34/85

T-54M

Germany 
Jagdpanzer 38(t) (Hetzer).

Panzerkampfwagon IV Ausf. H

Japan 
Type 95 Ha-Go

List of artillery

United States 
M2 155mm "Long Tom" field gun

United Kingdom 
17-Pounder Mk. I anti-tank gun

Germany 
75mm PaK 40 anti-tank gun

88mm Flak 37 anti-aircraft gun

Japan 
47mm Type 1 anti-tank gun

List of vehicles

United States 
M5A4 high-speed tractor

AM General M936A2 wrecker

Dodge WC24 command car

Dodge WC54 ambulance

Ford GPW "Jeep"

Harley-Davidson WLA

Landing craft, vehicle, personnel (LCVP)

M3A1 half-track personnel carrier

M274A5 Mule

Germany 
BMW R75

Opel Super 6

Scheuch-Schlepper

Volkswagen Kubelwagen Typ 82 Kfz.1

See also
List of aerospace museums

References

External links

 
 Paul Allen.com, page on collection

Aerospace museums in Washington (state)
Military and war museums in Washington (state)
Museums in Snohomish County, Washington
Tourist attractions in Everett, Washington