Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny"

The Curtiss Jenny became America's most famous World War I training airplane. After World War I, Jennies could be bought for $50, hence their popularity with barnstormers of the 1920s. 6813 Jennys were built, about 50 of them survive in museums and with private owners. Here are just of few of them:
JN-4C
  • C227 on display at the Canadian Aviation Museum, Rockcliffe
  • C308 still flying at the Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas
  • C496 on display at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, St. Louis
  • C1122 still flying in the collection of Skeeter Carlson, Spokane, Washington State, with a high degree of originality
  • 1898 - whereabouts unknown
  • 4048 in the collection of Anthony Morozowsky, Zanesville, Ohio 
  • 10875 in the collection of John Shue, York, Pennsylvania
  • 39158 at the National Air Museum
  • 56618 - whereabouts unknown
  • ‘C-AAI' part of the  Reynolds-Alberta Museum, Wetaskiwin, Alberta, Canada.
  • One example on display at the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, New York State - a barn find restoration.
  • One example on display at the Tiger Boys Aeroplane Works & Flying Museum, Guelph, Ontario

JN-4D
  • D-51 on display at the Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California - displayed with canvas stripped.
  • 278 - whereabouts unknown
  • 396 on display at the San Diego Aerospace Museum
  • 400 (complete serial unknown) in the collection of James Smith, Fortine, Montana
  • 450 on display at the  Virginia Aviation Museum, Richmond, Virginia, on loan from Kenneth Hyde
  • 490 - whereabouts unknown
  • A995 on display at the US Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Florida
  • A996 on display at the Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, California
  • 1282 on display at the Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum (WAAAM) in Hood River, Oregon
  • 1321 in the collection of Franklin Root, Staunton, Virginia
  • 1350 on display at the Warp Pioneer Villiage Museum, Minden, Nebraska
  • 2421 on display at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry 
  • 2780 on display at the US Museum of Army Aviation, Ozark, Alabama
  • 2805 on display​in the USAF Museum (Dayton) was obtained from Robert Pfeil of Taylor, Texas, in 1956. (see photo)
  • 2844 - whereabouts unknown
  • 3233 - whereabouts unknown
  • 3229 on display at the Pioneer Flight Museum, Kingsbury, Texas - there is doubt if it is genuine or a replica)
  • 3712, a 1918-build example in flying condition at the Flying Heritage Collection, Arlington, Washington State
  • 3973 on display at the John Johnson, Edmonton, Alberta
  • 4904 on display at the EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisconsin (composite of parts including wing from 5357 and JN-4A fuselage parts)
  • 4983 on display at the NASM, Washington Dulles. On November 25, 1918,  the Smithsonian Institution acquired a JN-4D Jenny from the U.S. Air Service for the national aeronautical collection. This aircraft, one of 585 built under license by the Springfield Aircraft Corporation of Springfield, Massachusetts, and costing the government $4,954.34, had been briefly in use as a U.S. Air Service trainer at Hazelhurst Field at Mineola, New York.
  • 5002 on display at the Hill Aerospace Museum, Utah was originally built by the Springfield Airplane Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1918, but seems to be a rebuilt.  (see photo)
  • 5086 on display at the Glenn H Curtiss Museum, Hammondsport, New York (under restoration)
  • 5360 in the collection of Kermit Weeks, Polk City, Florida (very original but badly damaged)
  • 5361 in the collection of Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia
  • 6062 in the collection of Paul Dougherty, Bethel, Pennsylvania (under restoration at Golden Age Air Museum?)
  • 8047 in the collection of Paul Dougherty, Bethel, Pennsylvania (under restoration at Golden Age Air Museum?)
  • 33779 in the collection of Kenneth Hyde, Warrenton, Virginia
  • 34091 on display at the Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California
  • 34094 - a 1917-built example flying condition at the Owls Head Transportation Museum, Maine
  • 34135, on display at the Military Aviation Museum, Pungo, Virginia.
  •  "2525" on display at the Wichita Falls Municipal Airport in Wichita Falls, Texas.
  • One example at the Cradle of Aviation Museum,  Long Island One. This is the aircraft owned by Charles Lindbergh in which he barnstormed long before his transatlantic flight. Lindbergh purchased this aircraft in Americus, Georgia, for $500 in May 1923, and sold it to his flying student in Iowa the following October. It was restored by the late George Dade in the 1970s and is on loan from the Long Island Early Fliers Club.
  • A 1917-built example flying condition at the Golden Age Air Museum at Grimes Airport, Bethel, Pennsylvania
  • One example on display at the Museum of Flight, Seattle (little original material remaining)
  • One example on display at the US Army Center for Military History, on loan to College Park Aviation Museum, College Park, Maryland – a barn find restoration
  • One example on display at the Frontier Army Museum, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
  • a 1917-model on display at the Yanks Air Museum, Chino, California

JN-4H
  • 6226 (ex-USAAS "38262”) in flying condition at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, New York.