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Minot Air Force Base Museum – Minot Air Force Base, near Minot, North Dakota [6] [failed verification] Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum – Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, New York (closed in 1995) [12] Randolph Air Force Base Museum – Randolph Air Force Base, Universal City, Texas (consolidated with Lackland museum in 1958) [13]
Today, the Western Railway Museum is located near Denverton, California (Highway 12 southeast of Travis AFB). When construction began on the Army airfield that would become Travis AFB, and area was still referred to as Scandia as can be seen in an article in the Solano Republican. The first article on construction was on July 2, 1942, four days ...
During 2000, the museum working group determined that a new Travis Air Force Base museum was not only necessary, but was also in the best interests of both the Air Force and the local community. A new site was identified: some 16 acres near the Travis Air Force Base hospital. The Campaign for the "Aviation Museum of the New Millennium" began ...
The base was renamed Travis Air Force Base in 1951 for Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, who was killed when a B-29 Superfortress crashed shortly after takeoff on 5 August 1950. The ensuing fire caused the 10,000 pounds of high explosives in the plane's cargo — a Mark 4 nuclear weapon (minus its nuclear core) — to detonate, killing ...
Founded as the Air Force Logistics Museum of the West in 1982, the name of the museum was quickly changed to the McClellan Aviation Museum less than a year later. [2] [3] It was chartered by the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Travis Air Force Base: 13,414 2 County of Solano: 2,633 3 Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District: 2,213 4 Northbay Healthcare 1,969 5 Solano Community College: 750 6 Partnership HealthPlan of California: 561 7 City of Fairfield 553 8 Jelly Belly Candy Company: 489 9 Sutter Regional Medical Foundation: 475 10 Westamerica Bancorporation: 418
Aerial view of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle on display in the museum's World War II Gallery. The Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 used as Air Force One by United States presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson (who was sworn into office on the plane), and Richard Nixon.
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.