Renault FT - Surviving Vehicles

Surviving Vehicles

Approximately 41 FTs, twenty Six-Ton Tanks, two Russkiy Renos and three FT TSF survive in various museums around the world.

• Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France. The museum owns three FTs, two of them are in running condition. One of them is coming from the Patton Museum. The third is in static display and comes from Afghanistan. It is one of 4 known FTs that were in this country before 2003, two of them went to the Patton Museum in Fort Knox, the 4th one went to Poland were it will be renovated. The Saumur tank museum also owns a FT TSF, it currently has no tracks and driving train, but the museum intends to restore it.
• Musee de l'Armee, Paris, France. One FT.
• Glade of the Armistice, near Compiègne, France. One FT.
• Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, NY. One driveable Six-Ton Tank.
• Hayes Otoupalik, Military Collectibles and Historical Americana, Missoula, Montana. One driveable Six-Ton Tank. Tank is from the personal collection of Hayes Otoupalik. He owned a French Renault FT, sold to the National World War I Museum.
• Bovington Tank Museum, United Kingdom. One FT, an unarmoured training model.
• Museu Militar Conde de Linhares in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. One FT.
• Ropkey Armor Museum, Crawfordsville, Indiana A Six-Ton Model 1917.
• Patton Museum in the United States. In 2003, two FT tanks were discovered in Kabul, Afghanistan by Major Robert Redding. With permission from the Afghan government, the two tanks were transferred here, where one of them was restored and is now on display. The museum previously owned a FT tank, but at the request of the French government, sent it back to France.
• Louisiana State Military Museum at Jackson Barracks, New Orleans, Louisiana. An FT was inundated by floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It is being restored and will be returned to display.
• Royal Military Museum, Belgium. One FT is on permanent display.
• The National World War I Museum, located at Liberty Memorial, Kansas City, Missouri. An FT, damaged by German artillery.
• Musée de l'armée Suisse, Burgdorf, Switzerland. An FT is displayed as the first tank of the Swiss army, adopted in 1922.
• National Military Museum (Romania), Bucharest, Romania. An FT, in permanent outdoor display.
• Military Museum (Belgrade), Belgrade, Serbia. An FT, in permanent outdoor display.
• Parola Tank Museum, Parola, Finland. FT in outdoor display, another in the tank hall.
• Two full-scale, working replicas of Renault FTs were built from scratch by enthusiast for Jerzy Hoffman's Battle of Warsaw 1920 2011 film.
• An FT is being placed on static display at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center in Carlisle, PA beginning in April 2012.
• The US First Infantry Division museum at Cantigny in Warrenville, IL has an M1917 on static display in the tank park outside.
• The Afghan National Army has begun a restoration project on an FT, intending to place it in a static display outside the new Ministry of Defence Headquarters in Kabul, once construction of the building is complete. On 20 October, the Afghan Defence Ministry officially handed over the historic vehicle to Polish Ambassador in Kabul Piotr Łukasiewicz. FT will be renovated by Stefan Czarniecki Land Forces Training Centre in Poznan.

• Char Renault FT at the Musee de l'Armee

• FT at Bovington Tank Museum

• One of 4 known FTs discovered in Afghanistan before 2003

• A Brazilian army FT received in 1921