Hitler's Car and the Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, California
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- Located on the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, CA is the Lyon Air Museum. The museum was created to honor the Greatest Generation in Aviation, and has a large collection of WWII era airplanes and vehicles. The collection contains both Allied and Axis vehicles, including a car that once belonged to Adolf Hitler.
Along with the car that belonged to one of history's biggest monsters, at the museum we checked out such planes as the B-17 Flying Fortress, the DC-3, the B-25 Bomber and number of automobiles.
The museum is a true hidden gem in Southern California.
The Lyon Air Museum is located at 19300 Ike Jones Rd, Santa Ana, CA 92707.
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I was at this museum about a month ago a buddy and I went there and the Shelby Museum in Irvine same day. Being an Aircraft Mechanic for 17 years and having some of my companies aircraft there was pleasant surprise. Our tour guide was a real nice guy and we talked Aircraft for a long while.
All of the docents at the Lyon Air Museum were fantastic on our trip too.
@@SidetrackAdventures I really got into some of the planes because when started working at Douglas Aircraft Co. In the 80s there were still some of the people who built them working there. Drank alot of coffee and heard lots of awesome stories from them before they retired.
Wow! I've been to John Wayne airport many many times, but I never knew this museum was there. Good video!
I visited my parents in San Diego for Christmas and because of your video, we made a trip to the Lyon Air Museum. You were right, it is a hidden gem! I told many of the curators about you and this episode of Sidetrack Adventures. They were all excited and looked forward to watching it. It's amazing that all the aircraft and vehicles are in pristine and working condition. My parents, wife, daughter, and I really enjoyed our visit. We then headed over to Ballast Point Brewery at Seal Beach for a wonderful lunch and delicious brews. Thanks again for your terrific and inspiring videos, San Diego Steve! :)
Wow thanks. Yeah, I think its amazing they all work. Most museums the planes just sit there collecting dust.
@@SidetrackAdventures , since they fly the planes every once in a while, it was really cool took to see some of them dripping oil into pans. Just shows how authentic the planes are. Thanks again for encouraging us to visit, Steve!
WW2 and WW1 are my favorite topics in history. I live 20 minutes away from here. Thank you sir
"Let's see....the instructions are to armor the doors and windows."
"But it's a convertable!"
"Be quiet, Hans, and just do your job!"
What an interesting find...if you haven't already gone Chino airport has a couple of pretty large museums with many WWII aircraft. Thanks for the post.
We haven't been to the Chino airport but will definitely check it out.
Both Chino and Palm springs air museums fly thier collections along with the Confederated Air For force in Riverside.
@@richardweaver9682 the Commemorative Air Force has their location in Camarillo not Riverside.
Wow what a find! A great piece of history in a very under the radar museum. Thanks for sharing. We will be heading there on our next California trip.
Thank you for sharing. I always enjoy your videos that you put out on all your travels. So many absolutely wonderful places with a deep history.
Thanks for watching!
First of all, excellent video quality. Viewing this on a 77" LG OLED and the quality is stunning. Great commentary. I am a huge WW2 enthusiast and seeing that B-17 was awesome. One minor complaint is the nose art didn't look era to me. That style of font wasn't used back then and Elmer Fudd was way off. I wish the artist they hired would have done more research. But, that's a minor complaint. Excellent job. Again, video quality is super amazing.
I love museums, pretty much any kind! Thank you for showing this - like other people wrote, never heard of this museum!
Thank you so much for making this great informative video!! I am also a WWII history buff and will definitely make a trip to this fascinating museum!! What a GEM!!
I’ve lived in Orange County for over 40 years, and didn’t know about this museum. I really need to go. I also live in a Wm. Lyon house too. Thanks for the video.😊
Hitler had a lot of cars. The six-wheeled Mercedes-Benz G4 is truly iconic, and only 4 survive in running order. Another of his cars, a Mercedes-Benz Grosser 770K, (also armoured) is in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
My Grandfather actually saw another of Adolf Hitler's cars { that one a Mercedes-Benz 770 } when he visited a touring exhibit in his youth. Also, the bit about Hitler's car needing support from tires made in Israel, well: that's how bad you lost, Mr. Hitler! Great video by the way!
I used to show a lot of elderly gentlemen how to use the self serve copiers at the copy shop I worked at. Many of them were WW2 Veterans. One was on the Dolittle raid, his name escapes me right now. I didn't know about the Dolittle Raid until I had time to read his book. All those WW2 Veterans are the sweetest people, didn't have a complaint about one. The X generation is another greatest generation.
Thank you for presenting the background for some of these aircraft!
Excellent presentation. I have always been an aviation buff, I've been to several aviation museums and have enjoyed everyone of them. What I really like about this video is how knowledgeable this gentleman is. JOB WELL DONE
I'd love to see this museum and it's exhibits. Have you stopped at Whiskey Pete's in Primm to see Bonnie and Clyde's car they were killed in? Also if you ever get near Dayton OH, be sure and visit the Wright Patterson air museum.
I saw the Bonnie and Clyde car years ago but the last time we stopped it wasn't there because it was out on loan. Not sure if it has come back yet.
@@SidetrackAdventures I had no idea it was there when we stopped at Whisky Pete's in 2013 for the night on the way down to San Diego. Wish I'd have went to the John Wayne airport and saw ole Adolph's ride. Like your videos. Do more about walking trails in the San Diego area as I'm going to visit again and want to rent a bike to ride around.
Is that car still there ? Saw it many times driving to Vegas 😀
Awesome video. I believe I saw this car at the former Imperial Hotel & Casino in Vegas about 20 years ago. Thanks for sharing it. Greetings from Jerome & family in Florida.
I saw it there too
I lived in Clairemont when I was growing up. The Helms truck would come by 2 times a week and the smells were wonderful. The breads, cookies, donuts and pastries made all the kids
go running for Mom's purse! After all... that's where the money was! But Helms trucks went away when an Alpha Beta went in on Mt Acadia Blvd in about 1965. Bummer!
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Alpha Beta was a supermarket chain
prevalent in the 20th century. I believe that, after several rebrandings, you would know them nowadays to be Ralph's.
There is Zero mockup that was flown in the movie Tora Tora Tora at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside. This looks like a great place to visit and I hope to make it there sometime.
I gotta get back to March Field soon too.
Thank you for giving a backstory about the planes and cars .Most reviewers skip that part..Great job🇺🇸👍🏻.
My 2 hidden gem museums:
Barber Motorsport park in Alabama. Visit the 5 story glass museum of mainly motorcycles but everything racing.
The Mel Fisher museum in Key West. You get lost in time with great info and actual gold from the ship.
Great video. Now I want to go here.
Went to this museum in April because of this video. We had an exceptional tour with a volunteer docent. Thank you. Boston, MA
The docents there are top notch.
These are the little nuggets I always watch 3 or 4 times. That car was amazing, it ALL WAS. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Is there a photo of Adolph traveling in that car with that license plate number? I haven't been able to find any.
There are many photos of cars of that type, but not with that number as far as I could see. Great Video !!!!!
There is a photo at the museum of him in it.
Looks like a great museum! I saw one of those bread trucks for sale a few years back (probably eBay). They had a clip of it driving around they had the craziest whistle horn things…quite comical an cute!
Helm’s Vans serviced our neighborhood in Bakersfield in the mid sixties… great video!
Beautifully maintained aircraft.
That car originally had tires with a very aggressive knobby pattern.
Somewhat similar to Firestone truck tires of the seventy’s.
Not sure the original manufacture probably German sourced.
Great video. I was so involved with the airplanes I forgot about hitlers car. 😅
Saw the Hitler car and Mussolini‘s girlfriends car at the Harrah’s collection in Las Vegas November 1992.
How did the car get in the hands of the museum?
General Lyon purchased it in the 1980s.
@@SidetrackAdventures I thought it was in the Canadian War Museum.
@@mjh5437...... You are correct. The actual car with all matching serial numbers etc. is in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. It is quite a story as to how it was traced back to Hitler. Worth checking out. Cheers
Good Aviation museum. Been following your page for awhile. I am a huge history buff. Ty for sharing all the History 😊
The passenger side front seat folded up so Hitler could stand up on the floor during parades. The upper windshield grip handle was later added so he didn't fall over. Vehicle weight? About 6 tons.
Will definitely visit this museum next time I'm in Orange County!
You didn’t point out any of the fighter aircraft if there are any there. My absolute favorite is the P 51D mustang, followed by the F4-U corsair, the P 38 lightning, the P 47 thunderbolt and, the Davelin mosquitoes and, of course the Spitfire and the hurricane.
You don't know if there are any fighter aircraft there, but you state that he didn't point out any. Can you put 2 and 2 together? Did you *see* any?
This car belongs into Canadian Parliament, there it will find the most admirers!🤣
Indeed!
I'm surprised Turdeau (sic) hasn't asked to borrow it!
4:51 As a San Francisco Giants fan, I gotta say I love the colors!
I knew the guy who owned that car. I didn't realize how rich he was until one day we were talking about cars and he said that he owned that car and the car Kennedy used to pick up a female German spy during his last speech in Germany. He didn't know until he was told when he brought her back to United States. Come to find out my client was a multi millionaire . He always said that he was going to donate both cars to a museum. He told me he bought it only for the history aspect of it and it should be preserved .
Done quite a few T&G at KSNA. How old is this museum? Great video btw.
I hate to tell you this but the car actually did not belong to Hitler ! It was built for him but was given as a gift from the Fuhrer to Gustav Mannerheim the military leader of Finland as a thanks for joining the axis against Russia ! It was misidentified and tour the country as Hitlers car for a whole decade and afterwards correctly identified as the finish leader’s car !
I've been there, it also has the ME-262 jet plane and a the MIG-15 too.
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Very cool, I go to LA every few months and will be sure to visit the museum next time. Thanks.
March Field Air Museum has a B-29, and it's not that far away.
"Hogans Heroes" the series used period German cars as well. Klinks staff car, the one that Hochstetter used as well as General Der Infantrie Burkhalter. Burkhalter's car is really close to this version of Hitler's car. Hitler had several cars he used.
Hitlers car is also in Canada at a museum in Ottawa
His car is in California and his proteges are in Sacramento.
Nahhh, those are Stalin's comrades in Sacramento. The Führer through National Socialism enriched his own people at other people's expense. He kept crime down, the streets were clean & Germans had money in their pockets. Chairman Stalin however starved & enslaved his own people. Kept everyone poor, unsafe & living in a state of fear. Communism is equal opportunity suffering for all, while National Socialism was selective suffering(political enemies, POW's, Yoo Know Who's etc.) with millions being allowed to live a decent life.
This is awesome! I live in Riverside and never knew this museum exists. It's on my "Must do list" now
Awesome 👍 great video
Excellent. I'll be there next trip out!
That is amazing. I had no idea those treasures were there.
exactly, im from santa ana and had no idea this museum was here.
Thank you! I drive by the airport often, but I've never known about this museum. I know about Planes of Fame in Chino, and of course, the Aviation museum in San Diego, but not this place.
What's really funny is that Hitlers mercedes not only being heavily armored, it was a convertible!!!...ppppfffftttt, makes alot of sense!🤣👍
Actually Hitlers car is in Ottawa Canada. "How can you tell" you ask, none of Hitlers cars survive un damaged for one thing. The Commies stole three others and destroyed them, and Canadian Paratroopers who were actually the first allies in Berlin Not the US and not the Commies as they both falsely claimed for 70 years due to their little deals they made with one another. This exact car is very well known historically, it is merely a staff car meaning Hitler never rode or drove it it was driven by and for German Staff Officers
Dude, Love you and your families videos! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
The Doolittle Raid was exclusively flown by B 25s a B 17 could not of taken off from a carrier..😁
I just learned about this museum and the car a couple of weeks ago. They are now both on the list for our next trip to Ca
Its a really nice museum.
The Hawthorne zep bicycle is pretty cool in olive drab, I actually own 5 1936-38 rollfast bicycles just like that one
A nice video that included Hitler and Ray Kroc's cars. Persons who neither's word could be trusted.
Because No human beings word can be trusted.
What a great video! You guys find the coolest places. This reminds me of the movie Rat Race when Jon lovitz steals Hitlers car
I guess he used more than one? I remember an article from 2018 how one was parked in a neighborhood near Seattle. If you Google Hitler's car Medina, you'll see that article.
I also see an article about one sold at auction in Scottsdale AZ.
I'm sure he had a bunch of them. This one was apparently only used a few times.
Great info MrSteve☺️
Greetings from San Diego CA USA thanks 😊.
I didn't know this was around. I'm a member of a Civil Air Patrol squadron, and this would be a good day trip for our cadets.
It would definitely be worth it. So much to see there.
cool video bro
Fantastic...you and family must have a great time.
When l come over the pond l will have to stay a long time.
Hi from the U.K.
I can't wait to get back to the UK. Hopefully soon.
Gov.Newsome should use it as his official car,all he needs is the little mustache.😎🌴🐊
Your videos are really awesome THANKS
that bicycle is so cool
Its nice to see that one of the most influential person sat on that Mercedes Benz..
Interesting that they have a Bird-dog plane there too. I saw somewhere else that a vietnamese fighter pilot put his family in one of these and flew it to an American air base to escape Vietnam.
What a terrific report!
I saw Adolf Hitlers Mercedes in Ottawa Canada. The Canadian War Museum. Look it up on TH-cam. It looks like a used car. A GI shot some of the bullet proof glass windows to test them. Kind of neat to see the effect. There was a leather round pillow in the back seat for him to sit on to look taller. Perhaps he had more than one car.
I remember the Cessna planes in Vietnam were called “TWA” - Teeny Weeny Airline
Funny fact: one of Hitler's car is in a French museum in Lyon.
I sat in that car when it was in Brookline ma. at the Larz Anderson Museum in the 70s and still have the picture
there were several types of these Mercedes-Benz used throughout the war not just for top leaders but generals as it was quicker to get to the battlefield on a sixth wheel Mercedes-Benz due to roads being closed they can go over Farmers fields Hitler had 16 different types of vehicles ranging from very small ones to very big ones one of the vehicles that you can see is in Ottawa Canada at the war museum it was given to herman-gering during the war and then captured by the Americans and then auctioned off in the 60s so most of these vehicles were not personally owned by Hitler himself but used as military vehicle throughout the war some of these vehicles were captured in France and other parts of Europe the most famous car is the Volkswagen Beetle this one is still in Wolfsburg Germany at the factory of course they deny that it was his car but they have several military vehicles in their catalogs most of these were hidden away for over 35 years not to be seized by the Americans British or French there are two luxury types of Mercedes-Benz and Audis that are still in private ownership that actually belong to Adolf Hitler and several others of the Nazi organization only one person received their vehicle back this was Admiral Karl Dönitz from the Navy as he purchased the vehicle himself it was just a normal old Mercedes-Benz type-c class
Being a paratrooper myself you forgot the 82nd airborne division. Yes both. 82nd and the 101st played a vital role in Normandy.
Thank for the information. And like your video. Very informative.
I was in the 82nd too! What unit were you in? I only mentioned the 101st because that's who this particular plane carried.
Awesome video!
130;year old Hitler living in Argentina said he wants his car back!
I went today, and it was a site to see. I really enjoyed it.
Was this Car once in the Imperial Palace Collection in Las Vegas ?
I've been wanting to to there for years, will plan for it before December. 👍❤️🇺🇸
Nice looking vehicle.
I swear it used to be at the Barbie Museum. The Hans Barbie Museum where the car was stolen by John Lovitz and his family. 😃
Very interesting, nice work..❤
Show us the river between Mexico & California that goes to the ocean along the border there, south of San Diego. How many people live in the sand out that way? 😳😳😳 Love ur stuff! ❤️❤️
I actually planned to do a video there at the peace park but they have been doing construction on the wall and its a bit of a hassle. Hopefully soon.
This Mercedes g3 was in 2006 for sale in Bergeijk (Holland) bye kennis bergeijk.
❤❤❤ That's interesting, because Walt Disney ended up in California too, what a coincidence, which really wasn't a coincidence. They're related and they're completely missed by history ❤❤❤
Great video. I didn't know about this.
I wonder if Tom will buy this for Burt next year.
That's some awesome irony that Hitler's car has tires made in Israel. I am kinda curious if they told them what the tires were for when they bought them.
I have flown in and piloted the B25 when it was in Michigan.
Pima Air & Space Museum sure had a lot of WWII era planes but certainly didn't have Hitler's car. 😮 A lot of similar aircraft though which is super cool to see! Almost feels like sister museums in some ways. Sounds like the museum needs to talk to Disney about getting the bakery smell though. 😄
While you were there you should of asked about an AMARC tour trip. DMAFB bone yard.
We still need to get to the Pima Museum. Hopefully this year.
actually im not sure if they for sure know that that's hitler's car because his car is also in the Canadian war museum in Ottawa, Ontario
Those aircraft look in superb condition
Give it back to Germany!!
Чтобы его вернуть надо америку захватить.
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Of course its in California! That doesn't surprise me at all!
Apparently you have not done a very good job of studying and analyzing history to reach that kind of conclusion.
This Mercedes is a gift from Adolf Hitler to Finnish Commander in chief, Marshall Mannerheim, of Finland in year 1941. It has special equupments designed specially for the winter weather conditions of Finland such as Schneeketten (snow chains) for the wheels of that Mercedes. I hope it returns to Finland. It was sold to a Swedish man in 1940's who has regretted to have sold it to the USA where it has been falsely presented as a war trophy "Hitler 's car". With kind wishes, Miss Marjaana Nivala, a Christian from Finland