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== Surviving V-2 examples and components == {{more citations needed section|date=September 2016}} [[File:V-2 rocket at the AWM Treloar Centre Annex.jpg|thumb|V-2 rocket located at the Australian War Memorial Treloar Centre Annex]] [[File:Germany, Thüringen, Nordhausen, KZ Dora-Mittelbau (2).JPG|thumb|A rusty V-2 engine in the original underground production facilities at the [[Dora-Mittelbau]] concentration camp memorial site.]] [[File:V2Musee.jpg|thumb|upright=0.3|V-2 on display in {{lang|fr|[[Musée de l'Armée]]}}, Paris.]] At least 20 V-2s still existed during 2014. === Australia === * One at the [[Australian War Memorial]], Canberra, including a complete ''[[Meillerwagen]]'' transporter. The rocket has the most complete set of guidance components of all surviving A4s. The {{Lang|de|Meillerwagen}} is the most complete of the three examples known to exist. Another A4 was on display at the [[RAAF Museum]] at Point Cook outside Melbourne. Both rockets are now in Canberra.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nswrocketry.org.au/gallery/OtherEvents/ACTvisit/00_introduction.html |title=Treloar Centre ACT. 7 July 2009 |publisher=NSW Rocketry Association Inc |access-date=12 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320053653/http://nswrocketry.org.au/gallery/OtherEvents/ACTvisit/00_introduction.html |archive-date=20 March 2016 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/the-nazi-rockets-that-travelled-down-under/8977048 Australia's Nazi rockets: How German V-2 flying bombs made their way Down Under] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929013202/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-29/the-nazi-rockets-that-travelled-down-under/8977048 |date=29 September 2017 }} ''ABC News'', 29 September 2017. Retrieved 29 September 2017.</ref> === Netherlands === * One example, partly skeletonized, is in the collection of the [[Nationaal Militair Museum]]. In this collection are also a launching table and some loose parts, as well as the remains of a V-2 that crashed in The Hague immediately after launch. === Poland === * Several large components, including the hydrogen peroxide tank and reaction chamber, the propellant turbopump and the HWK rocket engine chamber (partly cut-out) are displayed at the [[Polish Aviation Museum]] in Kraków. * A reconstruction of a V-2 missile containing multiple original recovered parts is on display at the [[Armia Krajowa Museum in Kraków]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Ekspozycja stała |url=http://muzeum-ak.pl/wystawy-i-zbiory/ekspozycja-stala |website=Muzeum AK |access-date=21 May 2020 |language=pl}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2020}} === France === * One engine at {{lang|fr|Cité de l'espace}} in [[Toulouse]]. * V-2 display including engine, parts, rocket body and many documents and photographs relating to its development and use at [[La Coupole]] museum, Wizernes, Pas de Calais. * One rocket body with no engine, one complete engine, one lower engine section and one wrecked engine on display in museum ''La Coupole''. * One engine complete with steering pallets, feed lines and tank bottoms, plus one cut-out thrust chamber and one cut-out turbopump at the Snecma (Space Engines Div.) museum in Vernon. * One complete rocket in WWII wing of the [[Army Museum (Paris)|Musée de l'Armée]] (Army Museum) in Paris. === Germany === * One complete V2 rocket <ref>{{cite web | url=https://digital.deutsches-museum.de/de/digital-catalogue/collection-object/75528/ | title=V2-Rakete (A4-Rakete) }}</ref> and several engines at the [[Deutsches Museum]] in [[Munich]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A-4-Rakete ("V2"), 1945 (Original) |url=https://www.deutsches-museum.de/flugwerft-schleissheim/ausstellung/flugantriebe-und-raketen#c7217 |website=Deutsches Museum |access-date=24 Aug 2021 |language=de}}</ref> * One engine at the [[German Museum of Technology]] in Berlin.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Turner |first1=Adam |title=Geek Pilgrimage: V2 rocket engine – Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin |url=http://www.smh.com.au/technology/geek-pilgrimage-v2-rocket-engine--deutsches-technikmuseum-berlin-20150906-gjgerz.html |access-date=21 May 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |date=6 September 2015}}</ref> * One engine at the [[Deutsches Historisches Museum]] in Berlin. * One rusty engine in the original V-2 underground production facilities at the [[Dora-Mittelbau]] concentration camp memorial site. * One rusty engine in Buchenwald concentration camp. * One replica was constructed for the [[Historical Technical Museum, Peenemünde|Historical and Technical Information Centre]] in Peenemünde,<ref name="ref1">The [[Peenemünde]] replica incorporates many original components along with re-manufactured ones and was put together by a group that included Reinhold Krüger, who worked as an apprentice at Peenemünde during the war. {{cite web |title=Reinhold Krüger (18.02.1930 – 29.05.2005) |url=http://www.foerderverein-peenemuende.de/Ehrenmitglied1.htm |author=Klaus Felgentreu |publisher=Förderverein Peenemünde „Peenemünde – Geburtsort der Raumfahrt" e.V. |access-date=17 August 2021 |language=de}}</ref> where it is displayed near what remains of the factory where it was built. === United Kingdom === [[File:V2 combustion chamber geograph.org.uk 1430641 f91f99d8-by-Ashley-Dace.jpg|thumb|The propulsion unit from a V-2 that broke up in air on display (with exhaust-exit pointed up) Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum|upright]] * One at the [[Science Museum (London)|Science Museum]], London.<ref>{{cite web |title=V2 Rocket, A4 missile. |url=http://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co40493/v2-rocket-a4-missile-missile |website=Science Museum Group |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> * One, at the [[Imperial War Museum]], London, on loan from [[Cranfield University]].<ref>{{cite web |title=V2 (VERGELTUNGS-WAFFE 2) ROCKET (SECTIONED) |url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/30020790 |website=Imperial War Museums |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2020}} * The RAF Museum possesses two rockets, one of which is displayed at its [[Royal Air Force Museum Cosford|Cosford site]]. The Museum also owns a {{Lang|de|Meillerwagen}}, a {{Lang|de|Vidalwagen}}, a Strabo crane, and a firing table with towing dolly.<ref>{{cite web |title=German Army V2 (Assembly 4) |url=http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/collections/german-army-v2-assembly-4 |website=Royal Air Force Museum |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2020}} * One at the [[Royal Engineers Museum]] in [[Chatham, Kent]]. * A propulsion unit (minus injectors) is in [[Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum]] near [[Bungay]]. * A complete turbo-pump is at [[Solway Aviation Museum]], Carlisle Airport as part of the Blue Streak Rocket exhibition. * The [[Venturi effect|venturi]] segment of a V-2 discovered in April 2012 was donated to the [[Harwich]] Sailing Club after it was found buried in a mudflat.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2012-04-01/more-pictures-of-v2-recovery-operation-at-harwich|title=More pictures of V2 recovery operation at Harwich|work=ITV News|date=April 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401173931/http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2012-04-01/more-pictures-of-v2-recovery-operation-at-harwich/|archive-date=1 April 2012}}</ref> * Fuel combustion chamber recovered from the sea near Clacton at the East Essex Aviation Museum, St Oysth. * A gyroscope unit, a turbo pump unit and a steam generating chamber are on display at the [[National Space Centre]] in [[Leicester]].<ref>{{cite web |title=V-2 Gyroscope |url=http://collections.spacecentre.co.uk/object-l2010-8 |website=National Space Center |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=V-2 Turbo Pump |url=http://collections.spacecentre.co.uk/object-l2010-6 |website=National Space Center |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=V-2 Steam Generating Chamber |url=http://collections.spacecentre.co.uk/object-l2010-9 |website=National Space Center |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> === United States === '''Complete missiles''' * One at the [[Flying Heritage Collection]], Everett, Washington<ref>{{cite web |title=Mittelwerk GmbH V-2 Rocket |url=http://flyingheritage.org/Explore/The-Collection/Germany/Mittelwerk-GmbH-V-2-Rocket.aspx |website=Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> * One at the [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]], including complete {{Lang|de|Meillerwagen}}, [[Dayton, Ohio]].<ref>[https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196226/v-2-with-meillerwagen/ "V-2 with Meillerwagen".] ''National Museum of the United States Air Force''. Retrieved: 3 January 2017.</ref> * One (checkerboard-painted) at the [[Cosmosphere]] in [[Hutchinson, Kansas]].<ref>{{cite web |title=HALL OF SPACE |url=http://cosmo.org/exhibitions/hall-of-space |website=Cosmosphere |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> * One at the [[National Air and Space Museum]], [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{cite web |title=V-2 Missile |url=http://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/v-2-missile/nasm_A19600342000 |website=National Air and Space Museum |publisher=Smithsonian Institution |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> * One at the [[Fort Bliss]] Air Defense Museum, [[El Paso, Texas]]. * One (yellow and black) at Missile Park, [[White Sands Missile Range]] in [[White Sands, New Mexico]].<ref>{{cite web |title=V-2 Rocket on Display at the White Sands Missile Range Museum |url=http://www.wsmr-history.org/V-2Display1.htm |website=White Sands Missile Range Museum |access-date=21 May 2020 |archive-date=3 February 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200203040908/http://www.wsmr-history.org/V-2Display1.htm }}</ref><ref name="ref2">The White Sands Missile Range exhibit is [[Mittelwerk]] rocket #FZ04/20919 captured during [[Operation Paperclip#Similar operations|Special Mission V-2]] and is painted with a yellow and black paint scheme resembling that of the first V-2 launched at WSMR on 16 April 1946.</ref> * One at [[Marshall Space Flight Center]] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. * One at the [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. '''Components''' * One engine at the [[Stafford Air & Space Museum]] in [[Weatherford, Oklahoma]].<ref>{{cite web |title=EXHIBITS |url=http://www.staffordmuseum.org/exhibits |website=Stafford Air & Space Museum |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> * One engine at the [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]]. * Two engines at the [[National Museum of the United States Air Force]].<ref>[https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/195894/v-2-rocket/ "V-2 Rocket".] ''National Museum of the United States Air Force''. Retrieved: 3 January 2017.</ref> (one was transferred from [[United States Army Ordnance Museum]] in [[Aberdeen, Maryland]] in about 2005 when the museum closed). * Combustion chambers and other components plus a U.S. built engine at the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]] in [[Dulles, Virginia]]. * One engine at the [[Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)|Museum of Science and Industry]] in Chicago. * One rocket body at [[Picatinny Arsenal]] in [[Dover, New Jersey]]. * One engine in the Auburn University Engineering Laboratory. * One engine in the Exhibit Hall adjacent to the Blockhouse building on the Historic Cape Canaveral Tour in [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]]. * One engine at [[Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology]] in [[St. Louis, Missouri]]. * One engine and tail section at [[New Mexico Museum of Space History]] in [[Alamogordo, New Mexico]].
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