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The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. One of the first exhibits at the museum was a collection of art painted by Hazel Olson. [1][2] It moved to a new location at the base's former commissary, where it reopened to the public in 1981. That same year, a B-29 was flown to the museum. [3]
This new museum was dedicated in October 1997, at the expanding March Field Air Museum complex at the former March Air Force Base near Riverside, California, where the first test flight of the P-38 took place. The March Field Museum chronicles the history of U.S. military aviation since 1917.
Grissom Air Museum [22] March Field Air Museum [23] Minnesota Air National Guard Museum [citation needed] Selfridge Military Air Museum [citation needed] Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum [24] This museum was once part of the Air Force museum system, but was renamed and transferred to the Space Force when it became an independent branch:
In 1948, the collection remained private as the Air Force Technical Museum. [6] In 1954, the Air Force Museum became public and was housed in its first permanent facility, Building 89 of the former Patterson Field in Fairborn, which had been an engine overhaul hangar. Many of its aircraft were parked outside and exposed to the weather.
March Field Air Museum is located adjacent to but off the grounds of March ARB and displays in its aircraft collection examples bombers, fighters, cargo, refueling and reconnaissance aircraft, many of which served at March Field, March AFB and/or March ARB.
The USAF Airman Heritage Museum is an aviation field museum and heritage collection of the United States Air Force located at Lackland AFB near San Antonio, Texas. [5][6] The museum, along with the Security Forces Exhibit Annex, are part of the Airman Heritage Training Complex, run by the Air Education and Training Command. [7]
The Historic Flight Foundation (HFF) was an aviation museum located at Felts Field in Spokane, Washington.The museum collected, restored, and flew historic aircraft from the period between Charles Lindbergh's solo Atlantic crossing in 1927 and the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 in 1957, a 30-year period when airplanes evolved from relatively simple wood and fabric biplanes to ...
Native American. History and culture of the Agua Caliente and other indigenous peoples. Agua Mansa Pioneer Cemetery. Agua Mansa. San Bernardino. History. Branch museum of the San Bernardino County Museum, historic cemetery of the pioneer ghost town and museum. Beauty Bubble Salon and Museum. Twentynine Palms.