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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]
Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and Flying Museum, Hampton; Aviation History & Technology Center, Marietta; CAF Airbase Georgia, Peachtree City [48] Candler Field Museum, Williamson – closed; Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta; Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins; Museum of Flight, Dallas; National Museum of Commercial Aviation, Forest Park – closed
Dobbins Air Reserve Base or Dobbins ARB (IATA: MGE, ICAO: KMGE, FAA LID: MGE) is a United States Air Force reserve air base located in Marietta, Georgia, a suburb about 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Atlanta.
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After closing, building B-1 was used for storage, while building B-2 was occupied by the Veterans' Administration. Two Marietta-built B-29s survive today: 44–84076, which is located at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska, and 44–84053, which is located at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins, Georgia.
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On 26 September 2009, the Georgia National Guard assumed ownership of the former Naval Air Station Atlanta at a formal transfer of facilities ceremony. The transfer was the result of the 2005 Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission report which recommended closing the 50-year-old Marietta base.
The Kennesaw House was one of the only buildings in Marietta not burned to the ground during William Tecumseh Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, partly because Fletcher was a Mason, and his son-in-law was a Union spy. The building, like many others on the Marietta square was converted to a war hospital for the Confederate Army and later Union Army.