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I saw another four aircrafts on this photo, who can recognize them? --Great Brightstar (talk) 03:05, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

I'm fairly sure that the red aircraft in the back of this photo is a Hawker Hurricane, due to the characteristic horizontal stabilizer, and the exhaust piping on the front. I feel like I should know the yellow one too, but I can't put my finger on it yet. According to the Udvar-Hazy Center floor plan, the orange one is a Grumman G-22 Gulfhawk. TastyJim (talk) 04:13, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

Yellow: Piper J-3 Cub (not to be confused with their yellow Piper J-2 Cub). -- ToE 06:56, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

• The floor plan Jim posted doesn't show any airplane types when I look at it. (Is there something browser-dependent going on? Never mind.) But I found this one from 2017 that was very helpful.
• Sorry, Jim, but the red one is not a Hawker Hurricane; the horizontal stabilizer on a Hurricane would be set higher. It's this P-51 Mustang.
• The yellow one in front of it is indeed this Piper J-3 Cub as ToE says.
• The orange one in front of that is indeed this Grumman G-22 Gulfhawk as Jim says.
• Above that is a partially obstructed view of one where you can only see the blue cowling at the front and the lettering Pepsi-Cola on the tail. That one is this Travel Air D4D.
• Obstructing the D4D is one hanging upside-down, with red stripes and a red-and-white checkered tail. That one is this Bücker Bü 133 Jungmeister. The lettering visible upside-down is the name of the previous owner, Beverly Howard.
• At right, near the tail of the Jungmeister, you can see the diagonal blue, white, and red stripes of the Air France logo on the tail of this Concorde.
• In front of that you can see part of the red wing and part of the propeller of this Monocoupe 110 Special.
• Also in that area of the photo is a yellow part of something, but I can't tell what that is.
• In the foreground, the brown glider on the floor, with a 13-star US flag tail design, is this Baby Albatross.
• Behind that, under the tail of the Dash-80, is an airplane prominently labeled Bud Light, but I can't tell what that is. The museum has this Loudenslager Laser 200, and the floor plan shows on in the same general area of the floor, but it's not in the same place and the brand-name lettering doesn't match.
• Behind that, the airplane with a double red stripe and the light shining off part of it is this Learjet 23. (See ToE's correction, thanks.)

Thanks, that was a lot of fun. Which four were you asking about? --184.147.181.129 (talk) 07:43, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

• Bud Light is this Sukhoi Su-26M. -- ToE 08:11, 5 April 2021 (UTC)
• The "airplane with a double red stripe and the light shining off part of it" is this Beechcraft 35 Bonanza. (Learjet? Am I looking at the wrong spot?)
• The "yellow part of something" is this Grumman G-21 Goose. (Note its red, yellow, and blue tipped prop and black under-wing pontoon; note also the Concord's "tail bumper" above it. See here for a photo from above.) -- ToE 09:04, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

• For completeness, this is their page on the Boeing 367-80.
• I see from those photos, as well as several of their Learjet photos, that at one time (February 2004 in this photo) the Learjet was displayed on the floor, roughly where the Bonanza is in our 2009 photo, but was later (by August 2004 according to this photo) suspended over the Goose where it presumably still is today (though this July 2017 photo is the most recent I've found). -- ToE 05:51, 6 April 2021 (UTC)

Yeah, thanks for everyone. --Great Brightstar (talk) 11:27, 5 April 2021 (UTC)

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