Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Tornado Damage 

Yes absolutely it is. They have so many treasures that aren’t even able to be displayed.

Free to enter as well! I remembers spending 4 days there just to see everything. The hangar in the video use to be used for the RND aircraft. Now most of which is in their newer hangar.

Not to mention those two round engines!

Close... It use to be part of the Grissom air museum. Sometime back in the late 90's, it was moved to the Huntington Municipal airport (per General Robin Olds order/request). It sat as a gate guard in Huntington for several years. When the Huntington Municipal airport whet through some upgrades and ramp expansions, the F-104 had to move. Since it was/is still on the USAF asset list, the air force museum reclaimed and recovered the F-104. The wings of this F-104 were removed and installed on the F-104 on the pole at the museum. If you look at the color difference between the fuselage and the wings, you can see this. The propeller airplane that was also damaged in the tornado is an A-26 Invader, which is a project airplane of a acquaintance of mine. He sold it to the air force museum within the past year or so. I find it strange that the museum bought this A-26 only to scrap it. Not sure about the logic of that decision. The T-33 that was also damaged was on display at Huntington Memorial park for many years. When the city built a new armed force memorial at the park, they dumped this T-33 and bought a different one. The warbird community was/is not happy about this transaction because the T-33 that is now on display at the park was a plane that was being restored to flyable and was very close to flying. There are still N-numbers on this T-33. Kind of makes me sick every time I drive past and see it.

I would think that any and all parts and planes should be preserved.

Yes they should.@@dannyo3317

All useable parts had already been removed from both aircraft to be used on other restoration projects. The corrosion of the airframes made restoring them unfeasible and far too expensive. They were just too far gone having spent decades out in the elements. But, at least their donated parts will allow the resoration of other 104's, T-Birds, and 26's.

The USAF museum loves scrapping things. Don't ever look up the list of all the things they've destroyed...

No, she survived

Thank the gods of airpower that she was spared!@@WorldTravelA320

@@WorldTravelA320 I too was concerned about the "Swoose" Boeing B-17D. Glad to hear it indeed survived.

Definitely an abusive relationship towards us and vintage planes for sure. This storm confirms that among many other things…