Antique WWII warplanes

Wednesday, 30th January 2008 by

There are hundreds of different aircraft "in flight" to be seen on Google Earth, waaaaay too many to post them all here on Google Sightseeing1. But every now and then there's a rare sighting that we feel the need to share.

A field in North Carolina features two antique WWII warplanes flying overhead: a Grumman TBF Avenger and a yellow North American T-6 Texan, which you can clearly see has "USAF" written on the right wing.

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Of the 9,836 Avengers built, just 42 are still considered air-worthy (including the one we see here!). What's even more amazing though is that the nearby Hickory Regional airport has two of the same rare aircraft parked on the tarmac!

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OK, it's not really a coincidence, this second image is a different aerial photograph so it's almost certain that these are the same planes.

Thanks to morgantongis, Delta102 & jtouran at GE, via GEarth Blog


  1. The excellent all aircraft in flight collection on the Google Earth forum currently features 3,527 placemarks! ↩︎