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Macchi M.39 Schneider Trophy Winner

Aircraft Type: Air Racer

Aircraft Status: Replica

Manufacturer: Aeronautica Macchi

Location: Chino

Year Built: Based on 1926 aircraft

Remarks: This aircraft won the 1926 Schneider Trophy.

Martin 4-0-4 Airliner

Aircraft Type: Transport

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: Glenn L. Martin Company

Location: Storage

Year Built: 1952

Remarks: This aircraft could accommodate 40 passengers in a pressurized fuselage.

Messerschmitt Bf 108B-1 'Taifun'

Aircraft Type: Sport Aircraft

Aircraft Status: Unrestored

Manufacturer: Messerschmitt AG

Location: Storage

Year Built: 1937

Remarks: Designed as an all purpose recreation aircraft. During WWII, the Taifun (Typhoon) was adopted by the Luftwaffe as a liaison aircraft (photo not of the museum's aircraft).

Messerschmitt Bf 109E-7 'Emil'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Unrestored

Manufacturer: Messerschmitt AG

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1939

Remarks: Actual WWII combat veteran. In April 1942, German ace Wulf-Dietrich Widowitz was shot down in this Bf 109E-7, which was recovered in 2003 from the bottom of a Russian lake.

Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10/U4 'Gustav'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: Messerschmitt AG

Location: Storage

Year Built: 1943

Remarks: Actual WWII Combat Veteran of the Luftwaffe's II./JG 51 fighter group.

Messerschmitt Me 163 'Komet'

Aircraft Type: Interceptor

Aircraft Status: Replica

Manufacturer: Messerschmitt AG

Location: Chino

Year Built: Replica based on 1944 aircraft

Remarks: Designed as rocket-powered interceptor aircraft, the Me 163 was first aircraft to exceed 1000 km/hour (621 mph) in level flight.

Midget Racer 'Mr. D'

Aircraft Type: Air Racer

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: Robert Mayer

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1951

Remarks: Featuring a Continental 85hp horizontally opposed engine, this Midget Racer of the 1950s raced in the Goodyear circuit.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 'Fagot'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: PZL Mielec Aviation

Location: Offsite: Palm Springs Air Museum

Year Built: 1955

Remarks: Built under license in Poland as LIM-2. On loan to the Palm Springs Air Museum.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis 'Fagot'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Flying Aircraft

Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1951

Remarks: Served with the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (China) during the Korean War.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15bis 'Fagot'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: PZL-Mielec Aviation

Location: Storage

Year Built: 1955

Remarks: Built under license in Poland as LIM-2.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15UTI 'Midget'

Aircraft Type: Trainer

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1953

Remarks: The UTI is a two-seat, dual-control trainer of the MiG-15 fighter. Many of these trainers remained in service until the 1990s.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F 'Fresco'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: WSK-Mielec Aviation

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1959

Remarks: Built under license in Poland as LIM-5.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17F 'Fresco'

Aircraft Type: Fighter

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: WSK-Mielec Aviation

Location: Offsite: Palm Springs Air Museum

Year Built: 1958

Remarks: Built under license in Poland as LIM-5. On loan to the Palm Springs Air Museum.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21R 'Fishbed'

Aircraft Type: Interceptor

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: Mikoyan-Gurevich Design Bureau

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1970

Remarks: Flown by Czech Republic Air Force.

Miles & Atwood 'Special'

Aircraft Type: Air Racer

Aircraft Status: Replica

Manufacturer: Leland Miles and Leon Atwood

Location: Chino

Year Built: Replica base on 1932 aircraft

Remarks: Set world speed record and won 1933 Greve Trophy. Original destroyed in 1937 crash.

Miss Cosmic Wind Midget Racer

Aircraft Type: Air Racer

Aircraft Status: Static Display

Manufacturer: Van Nuys Consortium

Location: Chino

Year Built: 1949

Remarks: One of a family of racers developed by Lockheed engineers in the late 1940s, 'Miss Cosmic Wind' was flown in races until 1972, unfortunately with little success.