The Champlin Fighter Museum was an aircraft museum located at

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. It specialized in airworthy World War I and World War II fighters. After 22 years of operation, the Museum was closed on May 26, 2003, and its collection was moved to the

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. It also published books related to aviation, such as

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's 1985 book Winged Samurai: Saburo Sakai and the Zero Fighter Pilots.

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