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The Air Zoo, founded as the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, is an aviation museum and indoor amusement park next to the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport in Portage, Michigan. [1] The Air Zoo holds many historical and rare aircraft, including the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft, the SR-71B Blackbird . [ 2 ]
The Kalamazoo Airport's 1958 terminal had two jetways and housed the air traffic control tower. A Non-Radar Approach Control, located in Battle Creek and servicing Kalamazoo, was Commissioned in 1969. The air traffic control tower provides ATC services between the hours of 6:00–23:00
Air Zoo: Portage: Kalamazoo: West Michigan: Aerospace: Formerly the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, part aviation museum and part amusement park, includes Michigan Space Science Center, simulators, historic airplanes, aviation exhibits, Michigan Aviation Hall of Fame Alberta Village Museum: Alberta: Baraga: Upper Peninsula of Michigan: Open-air
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Sue Parish's flight suit at the Air Zoo. Parish flew a pink P-40 Warhawk in several air shows for over 25 years, until she reached her 70s. Deciding that she could no longer handle the G-forces, she flew in her final air show in October of 1993. [7] She continued to fly her Beechcraft Beechcraft T-34 Mentor.
Kalamazoo (/ ˌ k æ l ə m ə ˈ z uː / KAL-ə-mə-ZOO) is a city in and the county seat of Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States. At the 2020 census , Kalamazoo had a population of 73,598. It is the principal city of the Kalamazoo–Portage metropolitan area in southwestern Michigan, which had a population of 261,670 in 2020.
"In early 1999, the name "Air Zoo" was adopted. The name comes from the fact that so many of the planes in its collection have animal nicknames like Warhawk, Gooneybird, and various cats like the Wildcat, the Bearcat, and the Hellcat.[1]" Sure, that's true but the Air Zoo is located at the KalamZOO airport. Which has the three letter code AZO.
For the 12-month period ending October 31, 2021, the airport had 96,000 aircraft operations, an average of 263 per day: 68% general aviation, 31% air taxi, 1% military, and <1% commercial. For the same time period, there are 84 aircraft based on the field: 69 single-engine and 14 multi-engine airplanes as well as 1 jet .