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The Airpower Museum is a 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m 2) aviation museum located near Blakesburg, Iowa on Antique Airfield. [1] The Airpower Museum was founded by Robert L. Taylor and the Antique Airplane Association in 1965 [2] and features various periods of aviation through models, engines, propellers, photos and original art.
[9] [10] The Hawker Tempest, JN768, was previously being restored to airworthiness by Anglia Aircraft Restorations. The compatibility of the jigs and fixtures, of which the project had a full set, and large sections and ancillaries, meant significant cost savings for the RB396 project.
In 1998 restoration on the B-25 was completed and it was delivered to the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida. [1] [6] In December 2002 Air Heritage acquired an F-24 C8C for restoration. [8] In August 2007 David Tallichet passed away and all MARC aircraft in the Air Heritage hangar were transferred out.
The project began two years later in Hangar B on the east side of the airport and the volunteers eventually became known as "angels". [1] [2] [3] A number of the project's aircraft were previously on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. [4] [5] [6] In May 2002, the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation's KC-97 arrived at the project ...
The museum launched a capital campaign for a new 62,500 sq ft (5,810 m 2) building in May 2002 and changed its name to Mid America Museum of Aviation & Transportation. [9] [10] Just under two years later, it had raised half of the necessary funding. [11]
The Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum was founded in 2001 when a group associated with the Hawkeye State Squadron of the Confederate Air Force and led by Roger Pointer received funding to build a hangar. [1] [2] The since renamed the Iowa Aviation Heritage Museum planned to open to the public in 2004. [3]
44-76457 – under restoration at the Historic Aircraft Restoration Project in New York, New York. [citation needed] C-53D. 42-68710 – under restoration to airworthy with Saving Lulu Belle, Inc. in Fremont, Ohio. [193] C-53DO. 41-20130 – under full static restoration at North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC. [194]
In 1951, Roosevelt Field closed and plans were laid for a shopping center to be built on the site, so the World War I aircraft were put up for sale. The Smithsonian had already acquired three of the aircraft so Cole quickly bid his life savings of, according to his friends, around $1,500 (equivalent to $17,600 in 2023) for the remainder.