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The Air Force Armament Museum is a military aviation museum adjacent to Eglin Air Force Base in Valparaiso, Florida, dedicated to the display of Air Force armament. It is supported by the private, non-profit Air Force Armament Museum Foundation.
Eglin Air Force Base evolved from the 1933 creation of the Valparaiso Airport, ... The Air Force Armament Museum was founded on base in 1975. In 1981 the original ...
National Museum of the United States Air Force – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio; Air Force Armament Museum – Eglin AFB, near Valparaiso, Florida; Air Force Cyberspace and Communications Heritage Center – Scott AFB, near Shiloh, Illinois [2]
Eglin Air Force Base, a United States Air Force base located southwest of Valparaiso, Florida, was established in 1935 as the Valparaiso Bombing and Gunnery Base.It is named in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Frederick I. Eglin, who was killed in a crash of his Northrop A-17 pursuit aircraft on a flight from Langley to Maxwell Field, Alabama.
53-5947 - Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. [50] 53-5974 - National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. [51] 53-5979 - Prairie Aviation Museum in Bloomington, Illinois. [52] [53] 53-5990 - Maurice Roberts Park in Richmond, Missouri. [citation needed]
The Air Armament Center was inactivated as an AFMC center on 18 July 2012, and its functions merged into the former 96th Air Base Wing at Eglin AFB. The new organization was renamed as the 96th Test Wing (96 TW) the same day as a subordinate command of the Air Force Test Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California. [2]
The 96th Test Wing of Eglin will conduct weapons testing on the Eglin Test and Training Range on Wednesday, Sept. 13, between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Retired about 1990, now on display at Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin AFB. The 3246th Test Wing was a flight test component of the Air Proving Ground Center , later Armament Division , at Eglin Air Force Base , Florida, and was activated 1 July 1970 to provide weapon and countermeasures test duties.