Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum

Valiant Air Command, Inc. Warbird Museum

Location within Florida
Established	1977 (1977)
Location	Space Coast Regional Airport 6600 Tico Road Titusville, Florida
Coordinates	28°31′08″N80°47′38″W / 28.519°N 80.794°W / 28.519; -80.794
Type	Aviation museum
Website	Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum

The Valiant Air Command, Inc. Warbird Museum (VAC) is located at the Space Coast Regional Airport in Brevard County, just south of Titusville, Florida. The VAC contains vintage aircraft and a 30,000-square-foot (2,800 m²) hangar with a restoration area. ^[1] The VAC also has a Memorabilia Hall with flight gear, dress uniforms, weapons and artifacts. The collection includes fixed and rotary wing aircraft from World War I to the present. ^[2] The flagship aircraft of the museum is a Douglas C-47 Skytrain called "TICO Belle" which returned to flying status in July 2009 after the aircraft was involved in an accident. ^[3]

History

The museum began raising money as part of a four phase plan for expansion in 2021. ^[4]

Following an accident a year prior, the museum was forced to sell its damaged TBM Avenger in March 2022. ^{[5] [6]}

The museum opened the 20,000 sq ft (1,900 m²) Lt. Cmdr. Stockton N. Smith Center on 11 October 2025. ^[7]

Aircraft on display

Aircraft on display

• Beechcraft RU-21A Ute ^[8]
• Beechcraft T-34C Turbo Mentor ^[9]
• Bell H-13 Sioux ^[10]
• Bell UH-1 Iroquois ^[11]
• Cessna O-2 Skymaster ^{[ citation needed ]}
• de Havilland DH.82A Tiger Moth ^[11]
• Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk ^[11]
• Douglas C-47A Skytrain – Airworthy - "Tico Belle" ^[12]
• Douglas SBD Dauntless ^[13]
• English Electric Canberra TT.18 ^[14]
• Epps 1907 Monoplane – Replica ^[15]
• Fouga CM.170 Magister ^[16]
• General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon ^[11]
• Grumman F-11F Tiger ^[11]
• Grumman A-6 Intruder ^[11]
• Grumman FM Wildcat ^[17]
• Grumman F9F-5 Panther ^[11]
• Grumman F-14A Tomcat ^[11]
• Grumman S-2F Tracker ^[11]
• Lockheed T-33 ^[11]
• Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A Corsair II ^[11]
• McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II ^[11]
• McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet ^[11]
• McDonnell F-101B Voodoo ^[11]
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 ^[11]
• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 ^[11]
• Nord Noralpha ^[11]
• North American B-25 Mitchell ^[18]
• North American F-86 Sabre ^[19]
• North American F-100D Super Sabre ^[20]
• North American T-2C Buckeye ^[21]
• North American SNJ-5 Texan ^[18]
• North American XP-82 Twin Mustang – On loan ^[22]
• Piper L-4J Grasshopper ^[11]
• Republic F-105 Thunderchief ^[11]
• Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw ^[11]
• Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon – On loan ^[23]
• Northrop F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration ^[11]
• Stearman PT-17 ^[18]
• Stinson L-5 Sentinel ^[24]
• Vought F-8K Crusader ^[11]

Aircraft under restoration

• Grumman OV-1C Mohawk ^[25]

See also

• List of aerospace museums

References

1. Florida Today. The Fact Book: Your Guide to Brevard County (Melbourne, Florida: Florida Today, February 28, 2004), p. 119.
2. Lyn Dowling. "Warbird Air Museum opens hangar doors," Florida Today, November 09, 2007, TgIF 25.
3. Valiant Air Command website
4. Reigada, Flora (1 February 2021). "Four-phase Warbird Museum expansion forges ahead". Senior Life. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
5. Tribou, Richard (3 March 2022). "Space Coast museum's crashed air show plane sold after failed restoration effort". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
6. "Avenger Ditches During Cocoa Beach Air Show". AVweb.com. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
7. Neale, Rick (4 December 2025). "Titusville warbird museum expanding with event hangar, hosting mayor's ball". Florida Today. Retrieved 12 December 2025.
8. "Beechcraft - RU-21A Ute". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
9. "T-34C Turbo Mentor". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
10. "Bell H-13 Sioux". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
11. "Static Non-Flying Collection". Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. Valiant Air Command. Archived from the original on 21 October 2016. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
12. "Douglas C-47 Skytrain 42-100591 "Tico Belle"". Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
13. "1943 SBD5N - Dauntless". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
14. "English Electric TT.18 WJ574 Canberra Restoration". Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
15. "1907 Epps Monoplane". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
16. "Fouga CM.170 Magister". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
17. "FM-1 Wildcat". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
18. "Resident Flying Aircraft". Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
19. "F-86 Sabre". Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum. Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
20. "F-100D Super Sabre". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
21. "T-2C Buckeye". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
22. "VALIANT AIR COMMAND EVENTS/news". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
23. "MH-53E Sea Dragon". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 9 November 2024.
24. "1946 Stinson L-5 "Sentinel"". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
25. "OV-1C Mohawk". Valiant Air Command. Retrieved 20 October 2022.

Further reading

• Savage, Mike (1990). Valiant Air Command. London: Osprey Publishing. ISBN   0-85045-954-0.
• Sonnenberg, Maria (17 June 2021). "Commanding Presence". Space Coast Living. Retrieved 21 November 2022.

External links

• Official website