Fagen Fighters WWII Museum
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| Established | 2012 |
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| Location | Granite Falls, Minnesota |
| Coordinates | 44°45′05″N 95°33′29″W / 44.7515°N 95.5580°W |
| Type | Military aviation museum |
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| Website | fagenfighterswwiimuseum |
The Fagen Fighters WWII Museum is an aviation museum located in Granite Falls, Minnesota.
Museum founder Ron Fagen bought his first warbird, a P-51, in 1994.[2] Then, in 1998, he established Fagen Fighters Restoration. However, the museum itself was only founded in 2012.[1][3]
In May 2016, the museum unveiled a boxcar used in the deportation of Jews during the Holocaust it had acquired from Georgenthal, Germany.[4]
A tornado that struck the airport in July 2016 damaged a number of other buildings, but did not affect the museum.[5]
In 2017, the museum purchased a collection of spare parts that belonged to collector Jay Wisler.[1]
The museum opened a fourth hangar featuring U.S. Navy aircraft in December 2023.[6]
In 2025, the museum acquired an A-24 from the Lone Star Flight Museum.[7] Later that year it acquired a P-39.[8]
Facilities
The museum is made up of four display hangars, a restoration hangar, a reproduction Quonset hut, and a reproduction control tower.[9][6]
Collection
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- Curtiss P-40K Warhawk[10]
- Curtiss SB2C-5 Helldiver[11]
- Eastern FM-2 Wildcat[12]
- Fairchild PT-19A[13]
- Fairchild PT-26A[14]
- Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat[15]
- Lockheed P-38J Lightning[16]
- Mitsubishi A6M3 Zero[17][18]
- North American B-25J Mitchell[19]
- North American P-51D Mustang[20]
- North American P-51D Mustang[21]
- North American SNJ-4[22]
- Republic P-47D Thunderbolt[23]
- Ryan PT-22 Recruit[24]
- Stinson L-5B Sentinel[25]
- Vultee BT-13 Valiant[26]
- Waco CG-4A[27][28]
