V-1 Flying Bomb - Surviving Examples

Surviving Examples

Australia

• The Australian War Memorial in Canberra, Australia.

Belgium

• The Stampe et Vertongen Museum at Antwerp International Airport has 2 V1's on display: 1 complete (serial 256978) that was used as didactical material by the Germans, and 1 partial which got shot down, but did not explode.

Canada

• The Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Denmark

• The Danish defence museum Tøjhusmuseet

France

• The Grand Bunker Museum in Ouistreham, Caen, near Sword Beach, displays a V1 flying bomb.
• Blockhaus d'Éperlecques, near Saint-Omer. Although this was intended as a V2 launch site the museum on the site has a display devoted to the V1, including a V1 cruise missile and an entire launch ramp.
• Val-Ygot at Ardouval, north of Saint-Saëns. Disabled by Allied bombing in December 1943, before completion. Remains of blockhouses, with recreated launch ramp and mock V1.
• La Coupole, near Saint-Omer, has a V-1 loaned by the Science Museum in London.

Germany

• Deutsches Museum in München

The Netherlands

• Overloon War Museum in Overloon.
• Museum Vliegbasis Deelen in Schaarsbergen.

New Zealand

• Auckland War Memorial Museum, Auckland
• Museum of Transport and Technology, Auckland.

Sweden

• A V-1 in the Arboga Missile museum.

United Kingdom

• Fi-103 serial number 442795 is on display at the Science Museum, London. It was presented to the museum in 1945 by the War Office.
• A V-1 on a partial ramp section, at the Imperial War Museum Duxford, the museum also has a partially recreated launch ramp with a mock–up V-1 displayed outside.
• A V-1 on display with a V-2 at the RAF Museum Hendon, north London
• a V-1 on display at the other RAF Museum site, RAF Museum Cosford.
• An Fi103R-4 Reichenberg - the piloted version of the V1 - is usually on display at Headcorn (Lashenden) Airfield's Air Warfare Museum.
• The Aeropark at East Midlands Airport also has a V-1 on display.

United States

• JB-2 is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio. It was donated by the Continental Motors Corporation in 1957.
• JB-2 is on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
• FZG-76 is on display as a war memorial in Greencastle, Indiana.
• The National Air and Space Museum on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
• The Planes of Fame air museum at Chino Airport in Chino, California has a JB-2 engine, restored to fully function..
• A JB-2 Loon is on open-air display at the Museum of Alaska Transportation and Industry in Wasilla, Alaska.
• A JB-2 Loon is also on open-air display at the Point Mugu Missile Park at Naval Air Station Point Mugu in California.
• A V-1 is on display at the Air Zoo in Portage, Michigan.
• A V-1 and V-2 are displayed at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center in Hutchinson, Kansas.
• A V-1 is also located at the Fantasy of Flight aviation museum in Polk City, Florida
• The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama displays a V-1 in their Rocket Park.
• V-1 #121536 is on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum, in Tucson, Arizona.