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Archived 2015-07-01 (Calendar) at the Wayback Machine. The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, the largest aviation museum in Illinois, [citation needed] occupied part of the grounds of the decommissioned Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois. It and the base were named for Octave Chanute, railroad engineer and aviation pioneer.
July 14, 2006. Chanute Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force facility, located in Champaign County, Illinois, south of and adjacent to Rantoul, Illinois, about 130 miles (210 km) south of Chicago. Its primary mission throughout its existence was Air Force technical training.
Rantoul National Aviation Center. / 40.29361°N 88.14250°W / 40.29361; -88.14250. Rantoul National Aviation Center ( ICAO: KTIP, FAA LID: TIP ), also known as Frank Elliott Field, is a public use airport located in Rantoul, a village in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. It is owned by the Village of Rantoul.
F-84E. 49-2155 – Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California. [25] 49-2285 – Texas Military Forces Museum in Austin, Texas [26] 49-2348 – American Airpower Museum in East Farmingdale, New York. [citation needed] 50-1143 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Australian Army Flying Museum, Oakey. Hinkler Hall of Aviation, Bundaberg. Qantas Founders Outback Museum, Longreach. Queensland Air Museum, Caloundra. RAAF Amberley Aviation Heritage Centre, Amberley [4] RAAF Townsville Aviation Heritage Centre, Townsville.
AF Ser. No. 51-13730 is at Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California. Previously displayed at the former Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul, Illinois from 1957 to 1991. [57] B-36J B-36J 52-2217 at the Strategic Air and Space Museum. B-36J 52-2220 at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American [1] civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of aviation and the initial concepts of the heavier-than-air flying machine. [2]
Renamed Chanute Air Force Base after World War II, it was closed in 1993, but was partly reoccupied by the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, which was permanently closed on December 30, 2015, and the Rantoul National Aviation Center. Rantoul's economy has taken a sharp decline due to the base's closing, from which it has never recovered.