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The Museum of Flying is a private non-profit aerospace museum in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1974, closed in 2002, and reopened in 2012 in a new facility. The Museum exhibits the history of aviation, focusing on aviation history, with an emphasis on Donald Douglas and the Douglas Aircraft Company, in Southern California.
Originally Clover Field, after World War I aviator 2nd lieutenant Greayer "Grubby" Clover, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. [3] [7] [8] [9]The first circumnavigation of the world by air, accomplished by the U.S. Army in a fleet of special custom built aircraft named the Douglas World Cruiser, took off from Clover Field on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1924, and returned ...
American. Occupation. Stunt pilot. Frank Gifford Tallman III (April 17, 1919 in East Orange, New Jersey – April 15, 1978 in Santiago Peak, Trabuco Canyon, California) was a stunt pilot who worked in Hollywood during the 1960s and 1970s. He was the son of Frank Gifford Tallman, Jr. (1894 – 1952) and Inez Evelyn Foster (1894 – 1982).
Combat Jets Flying Museum, Houston – closed [82] American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum, Fort Worth; Flight of the Phoenix Aviation Museum, Gilmer; Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Fort Worth; Freedom Museum USA, Pampa; Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas; Hangar 25 Air Museum, Big Spring; Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler; Lone Star Flight ...
Douglas: The Santa Monica Years. Santa Monica, California: The Douglas White Oaks Ranch Trust., 2009. ISBN 978-0-615-34285-6. Wendell, David V. "Getting Its Wings: Chicago as the Cradle of Aviation in America." Archived 2012-05-20 at the Wayback Machine Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society, Volume 92, No. 4, Winter 1999/2000, pp ...
The aircraft was on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and was returned in 2005. [30] Since February 2012, the New Orleans is a part of the exhibits at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California. [31] The wreckage of the Seattle was recovered and is now on display in the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum. [32]