Engines: Air Jet / Rocket

Vintage airplane jet and rocket engines on display at various museums.


Pratt & Whitney J-33

Warhawk Air Museum; Nampa, Idaho 2021


Pratt & Whitney J-34

Tillamook Air Museum 2021


Allison J-35

Heritage Flight Museum 2023


Pratt & Whitney J-48 (JT7 Turbo-Wasp)

Used for powering fighters such as the F9F-5 Panther, F9F-6 Cougar and F-94 Starfire

Evergreen Museum 2018


Pratt & Whitney J-52

Tillamook Air Museum 2021


Pratt & Whitney J-58 (JT11D-20)

Used for powering the SR-71 Blackbird (and other variants)

Evergreen Museum 2018


Pratt & Whitney J-75

Flying Heritage Collection 2023


Pratt & Whitney J-79

Tillamook Air Museum 2021


Pratt & Whitney JT9D-7A

Used for powering passenger planes like the Boeing 747

Evergreen Museum 2018


Pratt & Whitney T-34 Turbo Wasp

I suspect this is the T34-P-6 that is normally displayed at Travis AFB. The largest plane to use the T34 was the C-133 Cargomaster; but it was also used in aircraft such as the C-97 Stratofreighter and the C-121 Constellation. Actually, the initial tests were performed by mounting the T-34 to the front of a B-17 Flying Fortress — specifically the airframe most known as Liberty Belle.

McChord AFB 2023


General Electric YF-101-100

This is one of 23 flight test engines for the prototype of the B-1A bomber. During the tests at Edwards AFB the B-1A reached speeds of Mach 2.3 (1,450 mph)

South Dakota Air Museum 2021


General Electric J47

Used to replace the J35 in the prototype for the F-86 Sabre

South Dakota Air Museum 2021


General Electric T-50

Tillamook Air Museum 2021


General Electric T-64

Tillamook Air Museum 2021


GE Aviation GE90-115B

Used to power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner

Museum of Flight 2023


Lycoming T-53 Engine

Tillamook Air Museum 2021


Lycoming T53-L-13B Engine

Missoula, Mont. 2022


Rolls-Royce Nene

HFF, Paine Field 2019


Rolls-Royce Avon

Museum of Flight’s Restoration Hangar 2017

This is the engine that powers the DH.106 Comet 4C


Tumansky R-11 Soviet TurboJet

Used for powering modern Soviet fighters like the Mig-21 Fishbed which this engine came out of. (It is possible that this is an R-13 or R-25 development of the R-11, but I found photos that support my R-11 conclusion)

NMMV Dubois 2021


Tumansky R-29 Soviet TurboJet

Used for powering modern Soviet fighters like the MiG-23 Flogger, MiG-27 and Su-22

Evergreen Museum 2018


Klimov VK-1

Used for powering Soviet fighters like the MiG-15 Fagot and MiG-17 Fresco

NMoUSAF 2018


Walter HWK 109-509 A-1 Rocket Engine

Use to power the Messerschmitt Me-163 Komet

Flying Heritage Collection 2023


XLR99 Rocket Engine

Used to power the North American X-15

Flying Heritage Collection 2023


Unidentified jet engines

Evergreen Museum 2018


Yanks Air Museum, Chino 2018


Tillamook Air Museum 2021