Surviving A-4/V-2 Rockets Around the World
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AUSTRALIA
A-4/V-2 rocket Australia PV Australian War Memorial, Treloar Centre Annex, in Canberra, with Meillerwagen trailer (verified). Photos Mikael Olrog and Alan Scheckenbach.
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A-4/V-2 RAAF Museum at Point Cook, just to the Geelong side of Melbourne. This rocket used to guard the gate at Holsworthy Army base just outside Sydney. Then, the RAAF museum received into storage. Photos Mike Cecil and Alan Scheckenbach.
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UNITED KINGDOM
A-4/V-2 cutaway rocket located at the Imperial War Museum in London (verified). Located in the Large Exhibit Room, the V-2 rocket display is one of the most photographed A-4/V-2s in the world. Photos Ed Straten.
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A-4/V-2 rocket at the Science Museum, South Kensington, London. On loan from Cranfield University (verified). This rocket was originally prepared for Operation Backfire. Photos Ed Straten.
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A-4/V-2 rocket with Meillerwagen transport, RAF Museum, Cosford (verified). This rocket was originally prepared for Operation Backfire, but never fired. Photos Paul Clark & Mikael Olrog.
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A-4/V-2 rocket at the RAF Museum, Hendon (verified). Britain's National Museum of Aviation, celebrates the story of aviation with one of the world's finest collections of aircraft and associated aerospace equipment.
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Unrestored A-4/V-2 in two halves. Formerly housed at the RSME (Royal School Military Engineering) depot in Chattenden for many years. The Chattenden depot site is due for closure soon and the Royal Engineers Museum in Chatham has now taken ownership of this V-2.
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FRANCE
A-4/V-2 rocket at the Musee de L'Seconde, Wizernes, Argues (La Coupole Museum) verified. This rocket is partial replica. Located in Pas de Calais, 5 kilometers from the town of Saint-Omer, this gigantic underground bunker was designed by the Nazis in 1943 to store, prepare and launch V-2s.
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GERMANY
Complete A-4/V-2 Deutsches Museum in Munich (verified). Displayed in a very unique way, this rocket gives a good overview of the interior components.Photos Rudi Velthuis, Tracy Dungan and Bert Hartmann.
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A-4/V-2 in depot at Luftwaffe Museum, Gatow (verified). The rocket was on show in the 1980s when the museum was located in a small barrack in the village Appen near Hamburg. It may be moved from storage soon, as the Luftwaffe Museum is adding a new hall in the near future.
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NETHERLANDS
A-4/V-2 Leger en Wapenmuseum Generaal Hoefer, Delft (verified). This V-2 rocket was, until recently, located inside the Leger Museum (Army Museum). It has now been placed into the museum storage, away from public view.
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UNITED STATES
A-4/V-2 rocket located near the White Sands Missile Park, White Sands, NM (verified). This rocket was recently restored by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center. It returned to White Sands Missile Range Museum in 2004 and is on display in a new building.
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A-4/V-2 rocket, motor, and accelerometer located at NASM, Wash, D.C. (verified).The rocket is painted in a black and white scheme to resemble Test Vehicle A-4/V4, which was the first successful rocket launched from Test Stand VII in Peenemünde on October 3, 1942.
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A-4/V-2 rocket with Meillerwagen Transport, U.S. Air Force Museum, Dayton, Ohio (verified). This V-2 and Meillerwagen have recently been restored and are now on display at the museum in the World War 2 building.
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A-4/V-2 rocket with motor located at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center, in Hutchinson KS (verified). The Cosmosphere's restoration team is responsible for some of the finest restorations of rocket history anywhere in the world. This rocket is featured in cutaway to view interior makeup.
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A-4/V-2 rocket display U. S. Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL (verified).This V-2 was originally restored by the workers at KS Cosmosphere some years back and had been in storage. It has recently been refurbished at Huntsville, and moved to an impressive new display area.
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V-2 located on base at Fort Bliss, near El Paso, TX (verified). The Fort Bliss Air Defense Museum has recently moved. The V-2 was moved to the entrance of the new museum. The rocket is rough, being outside for many years, but has survived fairly well in the dry climate.
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A-4/V-2 Replicas
A-4/V-2 replica located at the Kirkpatrick Science and Air Space Museum, Oklahoma City, OK (verified). This rocket is a full-scale replica, one of four built for filming in the TV mini-series "Space" (1985) by the company that eventually became "Spaceworks" (Hutchinson, Kansas).
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A-4/V-2 replica located at the Peenemünde museum in Germany (verified). This full-scale replica, with many authentic parts, recently replaced a smaller replica at the museum grounds. It is good to see a full size V-2 in Peenemünde, it is only fitting.
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A-4/V-2 replica built for 2005 BBC docu-drama "The Space Race." Location unknown, possibly Romania (unverified).
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Surviving Engines, Components and Support Equipment
A-4/V-2 Engine display & restoration at Parks College, St. Louis (verified). These authentic V-2 pieces were donated to the college by Wernher von Braun in the early 1970's. Includes engine with thrust chamber and portion of turbo assembly.
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A-4/V-2 firing table and engine assemblies located at the Leger en Wapenmuseum Generaal Hoefer, Delft, Netherlands (verified). Along with launching table, various components such as the turbine, fuel tank inlets, combustion chamber, burner caps, and alcohol jets.
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A-4/V-2 equipment located at RAF Museum Cosford, England. Leftover from Operation Backfire, the museum has in storage the world's only known Vidalwagen transport trailer, along with a firing table (including towing dolly) and a portable Fries-style Strabo gantry crane.
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Various A-4/V-2 parts, engines & components, displayed all around the world.
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Above: Ed Straten, contributor of photos in this section of the website, poses along side of the V-2 and Meillerwagen
on display at the RAF Museum Cosford.

This list is a joint effort, compiled with the help of those listed here: Bert Hartmann, Bill Beggs, Mikael Olrog, Ed Straten, Mike Imhoff, Vince Huegele, Phil Broad, Peter Fagone, Paul Clark, Olaf Przybilski, Alan Scheckenbach, Christoph Westhaus, Manfred Tegge, Curt Brandt, Werner Luehmann, Michael Keuer, Stephen Remato, Gerhard Helm, Leo Flynn, David Mindell, John Kiever, Jim Jenkins, Rod Givens, Murray Barber, John Pridige and Michel van Best. Thanks to various institutions and others who I have forgotten.

*Each contributor maintains the copyright of photos, which are used here by permission only.
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