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159600 – Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. On loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida. Nicknamed "Christine", it was the longest-serving F-14 Tomcat in U.S. Navy. Remanufactured from F-14A to F-14D(R) configuration, it was originally built in 1976 and made the final combat deployment/cruise of the F-14 in ...
The Empire State Aerosciences Museum (commonly referred to as ESAM) is a non-profit museum which strives to "educate, entertain and excite with experiences in air and space". Established in 1984 and chartered by the New York State Department of Education , the museum is located on 27 acres (110,000 m 2 ) of land on the western perimeter of the ...
The Marietta Museum of History was absorbed into the city of Marietta in 2018. As part of the process, the Aviation Wing was spun off and eventually became the Aviation History & Technology Center. [12] With the arrival of four engines in 2019, the decades long restoration of the museum's YC-141B neared completion. [13]
The Fort Worth Aviation Museum (FWAM) is dedicated to preserving and promoting the history of aviation in Fort Worth, the North Texas region, and around the world. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The museum displays aviation artifacts and provides historical interpretation on a variety of civil and military topics.
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. The McClellan Aviation Museum housed a collection of aircraft and other objects associated with the ...
The museum has since added a restoration hangar in 1989, a storage building in 1991, a military hangar in 1992, a 58th Bomb Wing Hangar in 2003, and a storage hangar in 2010. [8] The museum was renovated in 2017 with the addition of a mezzanine in two of the hangars to provide views of the aircraft from above.
In 1994, the museum began construction on a 48,000 sq ft (4,500 m 2) hangar, which was to be the restoration and storage portion of an eventual 400,000 sq ft (37,000 m 2) facility. [ 3 ] [ a ] The museum began acquiring additional aircraft and on 25 February 1995 an A-7 and an F-4 arrived by helicopter from Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst .
The Southern Museum of Flight is a civilian aviation museum Birmingham, Alabama. The facility features nearly 100 aircraft, as well as engines, models, artifacts, photographs, and paintings. In addition, the Southern Museum of Flight is home to the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame, which presents Alabama Aviation History through collective biography.