Fuselage Collection

RAF Bristol Beaufighter; Second World War, 1943
Photograph of a British Bristol Beaufighter fighter-bomber aircraft of Coastal Command, with torpedo slung beneath the fuselage, 1943

Streamline Fuselage by David Wright, showing a red-haired woman in pink and black polka dot lingerie, stockings and stilletos, stretching out her legs

Boeing Stratocruiser G-AKGK BOAC, London Airport
The instantly recognisable fuselage shape of the Boeing 377 Stratocruiser. Canopus was one of the more famous BOAC Stratocruisers operating on the between 1950 and 1959

A Concorde forward fuselage loaded into Airbus Super Guppy
A Concorde forward fuselage is loaded into an Airbus Super Guppy for transportation to Toulouse

Gloster Meteor Mk. 8 - Mk. 7 combination G-ANSO
Gloster Meteor Mk.8 - Mk.7 combination (ex GAF) G-ANSO, at the 1954 SBAC Farnborough air-show

Curtiss Hawk 75 fuselage interior looking rear from the baggage compartment. 9 May 1938. Date: 1938

The main centre wing section of a Boeing B-29 Superfortress is lowered to join the fuselage bomb bay section at Boeings Wichita, Kansas Division

Overhead cranes at Lockheed-Georgia move the first Lockh?
Overhead cranes at Lockheed-Georgia move the first Lockheed C-5A Galaxy upper forward fuselage to a new position

Canadair Silver Star 3 21077
Royal Canadian Air Force - Canadair CT-133 Silver Star 3 21077 (msn T33-077), fitted with a target winch under the rear fuselage. Date: 1964

Handley Page Clive III G-ABYX of Sir Alan Cobhams National Aviation Day flying circus

Vought F-8 Crusader. An early F-8 - F8U, at the Naval Air Engineering Laboratory, on Mustin Field, part of the Philadelphia Naval Yard

Hanriot HD-1 flown by Charles Nungesser
The Hanriot HD-1 flown by famed World War I French Ace Charles Nungesser in the 1925 movie The Sky Raider, with Nungessers distinctive badge on the fuselage side

Paris Salon Aeronautique 1949 - Fouga CM. 8 R13 Cyclone
Fouga CM.8 R13 Cyclone at the XVIIIeme Salon Aeronautique du Paris 1949 at the Grand Palais in central Paris, (flying demonstrations were given at Orly Airport)

United States Air Force - Boeing WB-29 Superfortress
United States Air Force - Boeing WB-29-90-BW Superfortress 44-87744 (msn12547), force landed at Moses Point Airport, Elim, Alaska due to two in-flight engine failures

USN - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo
United states Navy - Lockheed R7V-2 Super Constellation BuNo 131630 or 131631. Turbo-Prop conversion of the R7V-1 for the US Navy

de Havilland DH. 98 Mosquito B Mk. 35
Ex Royal Air Force - de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk.35 TH988 at the de Havilland factory airfield at Hatfield in a static display

Royal Navy - de Havilland DH. 82 Queen Bee K8671
Royal Navy - de Havilland DH.82 Queen Bee K8671 (msn 5204), being recovered by cruiser HMS Newcastle after a live-fire anti-aircraft gunnery practice

Bristol Aeronautical Corporation XLRQ-1 11652, the 2nd prototype amphibious assault transport glider at the Naval Air Material Centre (NAMC) Philadelphia

Pregnant Guppy N1024V under construction with On Mark Engineering at LAX - March 1962

Scheibe SF 25A Motor Falke G-AVIZ (msn 4552)

Dassault-Breguet Mystere 20 1st prototype F-WLKB at the 1964 Paris Air Show, shown with the two 3, 300 lbf Pratt & Whitney JT12A-8 turbojet engines originally fitted

de Havilland Venom prototype VV612. The prototype Venom F.1 was produced by fitting moderately swept wings on the fuselage and tail of a Vampire FB.5 whilst on the production line

Funk FK-1 Greif-1a D-7142 & Funk FK-1 Greif-1b fuselage
Funk FK-1 Greif-1a D-7142, with the fuselage of the Funk FK-1 Greif-1b jet-powered motorglider, at the Hannover Air Show. Date: 1962

Avro Lincoln B.2 G-APRJ
Avro 694 Lincoln B.2 G-APRJ (later G-29-1), of Napier Icing Research Ltd. at The SBAC Farnborough Air Show on 13 September 1959

Avro Shackleton AEW crew trainer T83987
Royal Air Force - Avro Shackleton AEW crew trainer T83987, at RAF Lossiemouth

de Havilland Mosquito PR.16 G-AOCK (ex NS753), at RAF Thruxton on 23 April 1958. On the Port fuselage side the incorrect registration G-AOOK has been applied Date: 1958

de Havilland Mosquito PR.16 G-AOCK (ex NS753), at RAF Thruxton on 23 April 1958. On the Port fuselage side the incorrect registration G-AOOK has been applied Date: 1958

Boeing WC-135B 61-2667
United States Air Force - Boeing WC-135B 61-2667 (MSN 18343)

Bleriot XI-2 Type Genie, 2-seat monoplane with single tail-skid, one piece elevator, four strut pyramid cabane and re-shaped rudder to clear the elevator

Lockheed L-100-20 Hercules PI-97 (msn 3946). Built as the prototype L-100 (civil version of the C-130), converted to the prototype L-100-20 (L-100 with extended fuselage)

Boulton & Paul P.10, on display largely un-covered at the 1919 Paris Salon d'Aeronautique (VIe Exposition Internationale de Locomotion Aerienne) from 19 December 1919, to 4 January 1920

Consolidated P4Y-2 Privateer N7620C (ex 66260), of Hawkins and Powers, crashed near the Lyons Park Gulch trailhead, about 200 yards north of Highway 36

Hawker Siddeley HS. 748 Srs. 107
Royal Aircraft Establishment - Hawker Siddeley HS.748 Srs.107 XW750 (msn 1559, ex G-ASJT), seen carrying the CLARA pod under the fuselage, (CLARA - CO2 LAser RAdar) Date: circa 2000

Aero Spacelines B-377-SGT Super Guppy Turbine, operated by Airbus Industrie, being prepared to unload its load of BAC/Aerospatiale Concorde fuselage sections. Date: circa 1974

Grumman F8F-2P Bearcat N212KA (msn D.902, ex BuAer 121528), fitted with a passenger compartment in the fuselage

Boeing B-50 fuselage Date: circa 1980

Boeing EC-135J Stratotanker 62-3584
United States Air Force (USAF) - Boeing EC-135J Stratotanker 62-3584 (MSN 18567), airborne command post

Lockheed EC-121T 52-3418
United States Air Force - Lockheed EC-121T 52-3418 (msn 1049A-4336, Model 1049A-55-86), at the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center, Davis-Monthan AFB

Auster B. 8 Agricola ZK-CCV
Auster B.8 Agricola ZK-CCV (msn B.105), of Air Contracts Ltd. at Masterton, NZ, in February 1963. (Rebuilt from the fuselage of ZK-BMM with parts from c-ns B.103, B.104 and B.118) Date: 1963

English Electric Canberra B. 2 WJ730
English Electric Canberra B.2 WJ730, on the RAE Farnborough dump in June 1962, after being withdrawn from use by the Empire Test Pilot's School

Breguet Br 941S 62-NA
Armee de l'Air - Breguet Br 941S 62-NA (msn 01, ex F-WZRK), of Escadron 3/62 / Escadrille Breguet, at Colmar-Meyenheim Air Base (Base Aerienne 132), on 27 May 1973

Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter fuselage on a transit stand
Aeronautica Militare - Lockheed TF-104G Starfighter fuselage on a transit / maintenance stand, at Grosseto Air Base, on 30 March 1998. (Aeronautica Militare - Italian Air Force) Date: 1998

United States Air Force - Republic YRF-84F Thunderstreak 49-2430 FICON parasite, at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, seen with the retractable nose hook extended

United States Air Force North American T-6G Texan 50-1279, buzz-number TA-279, (msn 168-443), at the USAF Museum storage compound at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH

English Electric Canberra B. 2 WV787
Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment - English Electric Canberra B.2 WV787 (msn 71644), water-spray tanker for icing tests

Fuselage Depot - from an original large-format brochure entitled The Wings of Commerce published in a limited edition of 2, 000 copies by The Aircraft Disposal Co. Ltd

Boeing B-50A Superfortress 46-10 Lucky Lady II
United States Air Force - Boeing B-50A-5-BO Superfortress 46-10 (msn 15720) Lucky Lady II, which made first non-stop flight around the world, from 26 February - 2 March 1949

Boeing DH-4M-1 N3258 ET-4, of the Tallmantz Collection at Orange County Airport, in California. A Boeing built / designed version of the Airco DH.4, with a welded steel tube fuselage. Date: circa 1957

Sud-Aviation SA. 321 Super Frelon F-ZWWE
Sud-Aviation SA.3210-01 Super Frelon F-ZWWE (msn 01, call-sign E ), the first prototype of the Super Frelon on display at the Musee de l Air et de l Espace du Bourget

Miles M. 65 Gemini 1A G-ALUG
Miles M.65 Gemini 1A G-ALUG. ALUG was withdrawn from use at Sywell on15 June 1964, with the rear fuselage being used to repair G-AKHZ. Date: circa 1960

Aircraft Engineering Corporation Ace K-1 N69097. This single-seat biplane, powered by a 40hp Ace engine; was designed by Alexander Klemin (Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, NYU) and N W Dalton

Hiller UH-12B G-APKY (msn 673), fuselage pod sans tail-boom, engine, gearbox and main rotor. Date: 1960s-1970s

Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295
(United States Air Force - )Bell QF-63G-1-BE Kingcobra Pinball 45-57295, on display at Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio in Texas, in the USAF History and Traditions Museum collection

Boeing DH-4M-1 110 of the US Air Mail Service, seen before its modern restoration

Fairchild C-82A Packet N4833V (msn of the Wiley Electronics Company from Phoenix, Arizona. built as Fairchild C-82A-20-FA Packet 44-23031 (MSN 10075) to civil registry as N4833V in 1954

Kaiserliche Marine - Friedrichshafen FF. 34 117
Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial German Navy) - Friedrichshafen FF.34 117. The sole FF.34 was converted to the FF.44, with a tractor engine in the nose of a normal fuselage, retaining the serial 117

Albatros L. 72c Albis D-1140
Albatros L.72c Albis D-1140 (msn 10108) of the Hamburger Fremdenblatt newspaper

L-W-F Model H Owl - AS64012
L-W-F Model H Owl AS64012, in later guise with extended centre nacelle and four-wheel main undercarriage

Engineering Division XNBL-1 AS64215 forward fuselage
Forward fuselage of Engineering Division XNBL-1 AS64215, (also known as The Barling Bomber and Witteman-Lewis XNBL-1 and McCook Field Project P-303)

Bellanca XSE-2 9186
Bellanca XSE-2 A-9186. The Bellanca SE was a Carrier-based scout, with 2 seats intended as a scout aircraft for the United States Navy (USN)

Tipsy Belfair OO-TIC. OO-TIC made two long-distance record flights; one in 1950 and another in 1955, as detailed, in French, on the side of the fuselage. Date: late 1950s

Blackburn YA. 7 WB781
Blackburn YA.7 WB781 (msn 5615), on the Royal Aircraft Establishment Farnborough fire dump (struck off charge on 18 May 1955)

United States Navy - Lockheed VC-121J 131623 8
United States Navy - Lockheed VC-121J 131623 (msn 1049B-4124) 8. The Blue Angels aerobatic team support aircraft

WWI biplane bullet fuselage with copper propeller
First World War biplane bullet fuselage with copper propeller.. Trench Art

WWI Trench Art triplane
First World War Trench Art tri-plane. The fuselage is made from a copper bullet. Trench Art

ST ELMOS FIRE - PLANE
manifesting on the fuselage and engine nacelles of a German Heinkel bomber, during World War Two Date: 1941

Republic RC-1 Seabee assembly at Croydon Airport, carried out by Rollason Aircraft and Engines. Three Seabees were imported from the production line at Farmingdale, for onward sale in Scandinavia

Kaman K-125B N60377 - NX60377
Kaman K-125B N60377 / NX60377 (msn 1). The first helicopter designed and built by (Charles H) Kaman Aircraft Corp, Bradley Field, Windsor Locks CT

Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator GR Mk. III (Special R
Royal Air Force Consolidated Liberator GR Mk.III (Special R.P.)

Flaglor High-Tow N2840C at Groton Connecticut. Built by F.K. Chuck Flaglor at Des Plaines IL

Airco DH. 9a forward fuselage
Fleet Air Arm Airco DH.9a forward fuselage. Date: circa 1925

Sopwith 2F. 1 Camel N7366
RNAS - Fleet Air Arm Sopwith 2F.1 Camel N7366 being started prior to flight.This photo of a Ships Camel shows the lack of hump

MoS GAL. 61 TS515
Ministry of Supply General Aircraft Limited GAL.61 TS515. A development of the GAL.56, the GAL.61 was a flying wing with no fuselage or fins incorporating a retractable tricycle landing gear

Farnborough 92 - Yak-38M - Yellow 38
Farnborough 92 - Russian Naval Aviation (Aviatsiya Voenno-morskovo Flota Rossii) - Yakovlev Yak-38M - Yellow 38. Detail of the rear fuselage and lift/cruise engines port exhaust nozzle. Date: 1992

Passengers on a 747
A full-scale mock-up of the interior of a Boeing 747, showing the three economy class sections. The 20-foot wide fuselage allows the use of wider seats & double aisles Date: 1960s

Crashed German plane, WW2
A crashed German plane during the Second World War. Date: circa 1940s

RAF Poster, Help Britain Finish The Job! WW2
RAF Poster, Help Britain Finish The Job! Showing two British Hawker Hurricane fighters flying over a British aircraft carrier at sea during the Second World War

Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft
Photograph showing a Royal Aircraft Factory RE8 reconnaisance aircraft, right view, standing on a grass airfield with it?s crew in the cockpits, 1917-1918 (c)

Wreckage caused by Dornier Bomber in Victoria Station
Part of an enemy fuselage hits Victoria Station. Wreckage caused by German Dornier Bomber which was brought down by Fighter Pilot Ray Holmes in the forecourt of Victoria Station. 15th September 1940

WWI Trench Art biplane
First World War Trench Art bi-plane. The fuselage is made from a copper bullet. Trench Art

Horsa glider to Normandy by G. H. Davis
Britains Horsa glider -- the mount which carried the airborne spearhead of invasion to Normandy on D-Day, Second World War

Dassault MD450 Ouragan fuselage during construction at the SNCASE Toulouse works

Junkers Ju86A1 D-AXEQ B�rg of Lufthansa
Junkers Ju86A1, D-AXEQ, Brg, of Lufthansa. Windowless, it had extra fuel tanks fitted in the fuselage and on 22-23 August 1936 it flew non-stop from Dessau to Bathurst, a distance of 3, 603 miles

Concorde nose and forward fuselage production at Weybridge

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