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The MAPS Air Museum is an aviation museum in Green, Ohio, United States. [1] Run by the Military Aviation Preservation Society, it is located off SR241 on the west side of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport. [1] The museum holds more than 50 aircraft, [2] most on loan from the U.S. Air Force or Navy for restoration.
The airport received a new terminal in 2003 as well as a 1,000' runway extension in 2010. [ 3 ] The airport received a $2.1 million grant in 2021 to build a multipurpose hangar to store up to three medium jets as well as to reclaim abandoned mine land near the property by filling in 6,000 feet of highwall.
The airport was named after Dr. Alexander Salamon, a refugee from Czechoslovakia who survived the Dachau concentration camp and immigrated to New York after the war. In 1953, he moved with his wife Lilly and daughter Suzanne to Seaman, Ohio, where another daughter Julie was born. Dr. Salamon served as a physician in Seaman and throughout Adams ...
The fixed-base operator (FBO) offers services such as rental cars and hangar space as well as amenities like internet, conference rooms, vending machines, and a crew lounge. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] For the 12-month period ending August 24, 2022, the airport had 27,010 aircraft operations, an average of 74 per day: 98% general aviation, 2% air taxi and less ...
The airport generally ranks in the top five airports in Ohio in terms of the number of take-offs and landings, along with Cleveland Hopkins, John Glenn Columbus, Dayton, and Cincinnati Lunken. For the same time period, there were 143 aircraft based at the airport: 118 single-engine and 10 multi-engine airplanes as well as 11 jets and 4 helicopters.
The airport has instrument landing facilities, but does not have a control tower. [1] For the 12-month period ending September 8, 2022, the airport had 38,690 aircraft operations, an average of 106 per day: 98% general aviation (48% general aviation local, 45% general aviation itinerant), 2% air taxi, and <1% military. This is less than half of ...
The airport was made possible when Ohio Governor James Rhodes passed a bill providing funding for each county in the state to have an airport. Land was donated in 1966 for the airport to be built. Operations began in 1968. [3] The airport's 50-year anniversary was celebrated in 2018. [3] The airport was celebrated with a re-dedication in 2019. [4]
The airport is undergoing terminal upgrades to improve facilities for local and transient pilots using the airport. Over $500,000 were allocated for the project. [5] A $75,000 grant to build an access road at the airport was approved in 2022. The road came off Ohio Route 42 to improve access to the airport. [5] [6]