The Pacific Aviation Museum on Ford Island last week added four of the most famous fighter jets from the Korean and Vietnam wars to its aircraft collection.

The museum on Wednesday and Thursday received two F-86 Sabres, an F-4 Phantom, an F-102 Delta Dagger and a Soviet MiG-15.

The aircraft were donated by the Hawai'i Air National Guard and the U.S. Air Force Museum, said a museum news release.

Many of the planes had been kept by the Air Guard as display items, but lacking adequate funding for upkeep, the planes were deteriorating, the museum said.

Clint Churchill, the museum's board president and a former Air Guard pilot, said, "Our board of directors and I couldn't be more pleased that the HIANG (Hawai'i Air National Guard) has entrusted the museum with the long-term care of the three (U.S.) fighters and the F-15 that we have already received. They meant a lot to all who flew and maintained them from 1954 to the present."

The five aircraft now reside in the 85,000-square-foot Hangar 79, the home of the museum's Lt. Ted Shealy Restoration Shop.

There, they join an F-14 Tomcat, F-15 Eagle, Bell UH-1 "Huey," Bell AH-1 Sea Cobra, Stinson L-5 and other aircraft undergoing or awaiting restoration.

Museum executive director Ken DeHoff thanked personnel at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for their work in moving the aircraft from Hickam Air Force Base to Pearl Harbor.

"We've had a great relationship with the shipyard ever since Pacific Aviation Museum moved to Ford Island," DeHoff said.

The Pacific Aviation Museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m daily and can be reached via shuttle buses from the USS Arizona Memorial parking area at Pearl Harbor.

For more information, go to www.pacificaviationmuseum.org.