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Indiana Aviation Museum, Valparaiso – closed; Indiana Military Museum, Vincennes; National Model Aviation Museum, Muncie [52] National American Huey History Museum, Peru [53] Northern Indiana Aviation Museum, Goshen, Indiana – closed [54] Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust, Allison Branch, Indianapolis
Operated by the University of Minnesota, the museum is home to world renowned wildlife dioramas, the first discovery room in North America, and state-of-the-art digital planetarium. The museum opened a new building on the U of M St. Paul Campus in 2018. [37] Beltrami County History Center
On 15 October 2016, a museum was opened on the south side of the airport, near the control tower. [6] Later that year, it added a B-25 and P-40 to its collection. [7] In 2021 the museum lost its lease to the facility. [8] The museum reopened in a smaller hangar in the northwest corner of the airport on 9 September 2023. [9] [10]
The Northrop F-89 Scorpion is an all-weather, twin-engined interceptor aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer Northrop Corporation.It was the first jet-powered aircraft to be designed for the interceptor role from the outset to enter service, [1] as well as the first combat aircraft to be armed with air-to-air nuclear weapons in the form of the unguided Genie rocket.
For the 12-month period ending June 30, 2019, the airport had 14,050 aircraft operations, an average of 38 per day: 93% general aviation, 5% military and 2% air taxi. In January 2024, there were 67 aircraft based at this airport: 38 single-engine, 5 multi-engine and 24 jet .
The American Helicopter Museum & Education Center opened to the public in October 1996. [5] The museum was founded by Peter Wright, a veteran of the Flying Tigers, a founder of Keystone Helicopter Corporation, and sales manager of Helicopter Air Transport. [6] In 2003, the Robinson Helicopter Company donated $1 million to the museum. [5]
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By 2004, Hinz envisioned an educational program based on the restored aircraft. In a May 2004 show in Red Wing, Minnesota the camshaft drive of the Rolls-Royce Merlin engine failed. Although Hinz successfully landed the aircraft between two houses in a residential suburb, both wings were ripped off and the body was badly damaged. [3]