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An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft , exhibits can include photographs , maps , models , dioramas , clothing and equipment used by aviators .
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.
American Museum of Aviation/Museum of Hollywood Aviation, Las Vegas [66] [67] [68] Cactus Air Force Wings and Wheels Museum , Carson City Thunderbirds Museum , Las Vegas
The New England Air Museum (NEAM) is an American aerospace museum located adjacent to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut.The museum consists of three display hangars with additional storage and restoration hangars.
Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum south of Tillamook, Oregon, United States. The museum is located at a former U.S. Navy Air Station and housed in a former blimp hangar , known as "Hangar B", which is the largest clear span wooden structure in the world.
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:
The museum was established in November 1979. [3] The same month a B-17 was delivered to the airport. [4] Ground was broken in December 1980 and by March 1981 a barracks and an office building from World War II had been moved to the museum site.
The Air Museum was founded by Edward T. Maloney on January 12, 1957, in Claremont, California, to save historically important aircraft. [2] A small group of volunteers, including future museum president Steve Hinton , set out to make the museum's aircraft flyable.