Can You Identify This Restored Plane from an Image?

By: Mark Laufgraben
Estimated Completion Time
3 min
Can You Identify This Restored Plane from an Image?
Image: Tony Hisgett/Bill Larkins/FlugKerl2 via Wiki Commons

About This Quiz

The fate of old warplanes is not a happy one. If they aren't destroyed in combat, they are often destined to an ignominious fate at a desolate scrapyard, torn to pieces and turned into beer cans, or left to rust, alone and forgotten. But a few rare planes are not put out to pasture in this manner. Some find themselves into the loving hands of collectors who want more than a trophy to admire or a toy to play with: they want to make them fly once more!

In this quiz, you will find dozens of planes that have been resurrected from the brink of utter destruction, and many of them even fly the skies today as surely as they did in their heyday. Traveling air shows are the new home of these old warbirds, and they take their roosts where they may as they travel around the world to the cheers of adoring crowds. Now they are no longer weapons of war but rather living legends, animated artifacts from a history that dwindles but is not let yet lost to us.

How much do you know about these sky warriors? Can you recognize these most famous restored aircraft from yesteryear? Put your knowledge to the test in our quiz, and show us what you've got!

Piccadilly Lilly II
Wiki Commons
What restored plane is this?
Aluminum Overcast
Picadilly Lilly
Swamp Ghost
1931 Laird Super Solution
1945 Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair
Wings via Youtube
What restored plane does this picture show?
1945 Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair
1917 Standard J-1
1911 Valkyrie
1944 Consolidated B-24J Liberator
1911 Curtiss Pusher Model D
bryboru1964 via Wiki Commons
Can you identify this restored plane?
1932 DGA-5 "IKE”
1954 Polikarpov PO-2
1931 Gee Bee Y Sportster
1911 Curtiss Pusher Model D

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1913 Benoist XIV
Valder137 via Wiki Commons
What restored plane is pictured here?
1913 Benoist XIV
Swamp Ghost
1934 Cierva C.30-A Autogiro
Hawker Hurricane PZ865
1937 Bücker Jungmeister
easyrider964 via Youtube
What restored plane do you see here?
1943 Grumman Wildcat
1945 Chance-Vought F4U-4 Corsair
1931 Curtiss-Wright Junior
1937 Bücker Jungmeister
Which restored aircraft is this?
Jesper Rådegård via Youtube
Which restored aircraft is this?
1931 Laird Super Solution
1954 Polikarpov PO-2
1945 Supermarine Spitfire Mk 16
1918 Thomas Morse Scout

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1918 Morane A-I
peterp696 via Youtube
Can you identify this restored plane?
1918 Morane A-I
1944 Short Sunderland
Douglas DC-7B N836D
1944 North American AT-6
Glacier Girl
Greg Goebel via Wiki Commons
Do you know which plane this is?
1937 Fieseler Fi-156 Storch
1944 Short Sunderland
1929 Travel Air 4000
Glacier Girl
Shoo Shoo Baby
Wiki Commons
Which restored plane is in this picture?
1931 Stinson Tri-Motor
Shoo Shoo Baby
Thunderbird
1927 Spirit of St. Louis

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1945 Piper L-4 Grasshopper
EAA via Youtube
Which restored aircraft is this?
Nieuport Aviette 1921
Lippisch 1929 Man-Powered Ornithopter
1945 Piper L-4 Grasshopper
Farman Aviette HPA
1931 Gee Bee Y Sportster
Valder137 via Wiki Commons
Which plane do you see here?
1931 Gee Bee Y Sportster
Chyeranovskii BICh-18
Boeing 247
Short S.26
1943 Grumman Wildcat
neotokeo2001 vis Youtube
Which restored aircraft is in this photo?
Avro Lancastrian
Boeing B-47 Stratojet
1943 Grumman Wildcat
Boeing C-127

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1945 Nord Stampe
Philippe Beinaerts via Youtube
Which restored aircraft do you see here?
Grumman A-6 Intruder
Douglas F3D Skyknight
1945 Nord Stampe
Vought F4U Corsair
1931 Gee Bee Z
El Grafo via Wiki Commons
Which aircraft is pictured here?
1931 Gee Bee Z
Vought F7U Cutlass
Grumman F9F Panther
North American FJ-2/-3 Fury
1918 Fokker D-VIII
James Emery via Wiki Commons
Which plane is this?
1940 Martin B-26 Marauder
1909 Herring-Curtiss Pusher
1918 Fokker D-VIII
1929 Travel Air 4000

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Avro Vulcan XH558, aka Spirit of Great Britain
Gregdetours via Wiki Commons
Which airplane is pictured?
1944 Fieseler V-1 Buzz Bomb
Avro Vulcan XH558, aka Spirit of Great Britain
1945 Grumman Duck
A6M Zero
1909 Herring-Curtiss Pusher
Valder137 via Wiki Commons
Can you identify this plane?
1909 Herring-Curtiss Pusher
Sopwith Camel
Fokker D.VII
S.E.5a
1927 Spirit of St. Louis
Ad Meskens via Wiki Commons
Have you seen this plane? Which is it?
Curtiss Falcon
Breguet 19
1927 Spirit of St. Louis
Fokker Trimotor

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1931 Stinson Tri-Motor
FlugKerl2 via Wiki Commons
Mark the correct plane below!
Ki-43 Oscar
Me 262 Schwalbe jet
SB2C Helldiver
1931 Stinson Tri-Motor
1943 North American B-25 J Mitchell
Kevin Slay via Youtube
Which restored plane do you see?
1931 Curtiss-Wright Junior
1934 Cierva C.30-A Autogiro
1943 North American B-25 J Mitchell
1918 Thomas Morse Scout
Hawker Hurricane PZ865
Wiki Commons
Identify this restored plane!
Hawker Hurricane PZ865
Potez SEA VII
Boeing 307
Heinkel He 162

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1929 Curtiss Robin
Alan Wilson via Wiki Commons
Which restored plane is this?
Bristol Ten-seater
Pietenpol Sky Scout
Avro Avian
1929 Curtiss Robin
FIFI
Cory W. Watts via Wiki Commons
Which restored plane is pictured here?
Douglas DC-2
Sukhoi Su-15
FIFI
Hawker Tempest
Texas Raiders
Patrick Blackard via Youtube
Do you recognize this restored plane?
Texas Raiders
Mitsubishi A6M Zero
Grumman FF
Sukhoi Su-2

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Aluminum Overcast
Cory W. Watts via Wiki Commons
Do you know which restored plane is in this picture?
Junkers Ju 87
Lockheed Hudson
Sukhoi Su-2
Aluminum Overcast
Avro Lancaster PA474
NMOS332 via Wiki Commons
Which restored plane is in this photograph?
Mitsubishi A5M
Avro Lancaster PA474
Dornier Do 217
Macchi M.14
1937 Focke-Wulf Fw-44 Stieglitz
Kai A. Hortmann via Youtube
What restored plane is next to this box?
Gloster Meteor
Hawker Typhoon
1937 Focke-Wulf Fw-44 Stieglitz
Arado Ar 76

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B-17 Bomber _Sentimental Journey
Ian Cossor via Youtube
Which restored plane do you see here?
Sentimental Journey
Douglas A-26 Invader
Martin B-26 Marauder
Tupolev Tu-2
1934 Pitcairn Autogiro PA-18
Michael Pereckas via Wiki Commons
Can you identify this plane?
Douglas XA-2
Focke-Wulf Fw 206
1934 Pitcairn Autogiro PA-18
Farman F.62
1934 Brown B-2 "Miss Los Angeles"
Valder137 via Wiki Commons
Which plane is this?
Fairchild 24
Ryan Foursome
1934 Brown B-2 "Miss Los Angeles”
Taylorcraft B

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Thunderbird
Jerry Gunner via Wiki Commons
Which plane do you see in this picture?
Thunderbird
Tairov OKO-7
SAAB 21
Piper PT-1
1944 Bachem Natter Viper
Wiki Commons
Which restored plane is here?
CAC Woomera
Akutan Zero
Arado E.381
1944 Bachem Natter Viper
1936 Bücker Jungmann
TSRL via Wiki Commons
Which plane is shown in this image?
1936 Bücker Jungmann
Avro Tutor
North American NA-16
Stampe SV.4

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Swamp Ghost
Pacific Aviation Museum via Wiki Commons
Which restored plane do you see here?
Boeing 727
Werewolf
Swamp Ghost
Grim Vengeance
Sally B
Tony Hisgett via Wiki Commons
Which restored plane is this?
Rachel Z
Sally B
Betty G
Last Sunset
worry bird P51
Dave Gorman via Youtube
Which renewed aircraft is shown in this picture?
Firecracker!
Fortune Favors
Dead Reckoning
Worry Bird

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1938 Grumman F3F-2
Bill Larkins via Wiki Commons
Which plane is this?
Gloster Gladiator
1938 Grumman F3F-2
Hawker Hurricane
Heinkel He 51
1937 Fieseler Fi 156 Storch
Xrm150 via Youtube
Which old aircraft was resurrected in this photo?
1937 Fieseler Fi-156 Storch
Henschel Hs 123
Taylorcraft Auster
Westland Wapiti
1932 Gee Bee R-2
peterp696 via Youtube
Which plane do you see pictured here?
Fairchild 24
Pietenpol Sky Scout
1932 Gee Bee R-2
Slingsby T.6 Kirby Kite

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