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39°50′31″N 89°39′56″W / 39.8420°N 89.6655°W / 39.8420; -89.6655. Type. Aviation museum. Founder. Donald George. Mike George. Website. www.aircombatmuseum.com. The Air Combat Museum is an aviation museum located at the Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport in Springfield, Illinois.
It was named in honor of Paul E. Garber in 1980, a Smithsonian curator who devoted most of his career to maintaining a collection of historic aircraft. [2] It was created in the early 1950s by Garber to store, protect the museum's growing collection of World War II aircraft and provide space to restore them. The facility consists of 32 ...
The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official museum of the United States Air Force located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, six miles (9.7 km) northeast of Dayton, Ohio. [3] The NMUSAF is the oldest and largest military aviation museum in the world, with more than 360 ...
Martin Marietta SV-5J – configured as X-24A [219] Martin Marietta X-24B 66‐13551[220] North American X-15 56-6671[221][222][82] Apollo 15 Command Module. Gemini B experimental capsule for the Manned Orbiting Laboratory.
The Boeing 767 is an American wide-body airliner developed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The aircraft was launched as the 7X7 program on July 14, 1978, the prototype first flew on September 26, 1981, and it was certified on July 30, 1982. The initial 767-200 variant entered service on September 8, 1982, with United Airlines ...
Air Combat Museum, Springfield; Frasca Air Museum, Urbana [51] [52] Greater St. Louis Air & Space Museum, Cahokia Heights closed; Heritage in Flight Museum, Lincoln; Illinois Aviation Museum, Bolingbrook; Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Naval Air Station Glenview Museum, Glenview; Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul – closed
December 19, 1960. The Springfield Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Springfield located in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, was the primary center for the manufacture of United States military firearms from 1777 until its closing in 1968. It was the first federal armory and one of the first factories ...
Museum of Aviation – near Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia. Peterson Air and Space Museum – Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Sheppard AFB Heritage Center – Sheppard AFB, Texas. South Dakota Air and Space Museum – Box Elder, South Dakota (outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB) Thunderbirds Museum – Nellis AFB, near Las ...