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The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, established to commemorate Long Island's part in the history of aviation. It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains , was the site of many ...
The Cradle of Aviation museum is home to the world's most extensive collection of artifacts from the lunar module and will celebrate the milestone with a host of events.
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The athletic complex was built in 1984 and was renovated in 1997; it hosted track and field and soccer events during the 1998 Goodwill Games. [3] Mitchel Field is also home to Nassau Coliseum, Nassau Community College, Hofstra University, Lockheed Corporation, and the Cradle of Aviation Museum.
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Mitchel Field, which includes the Hempstead Plains site formerly known as Camp Mills, housed an Air Force base until 1961 and is currently used for multiple sites, including the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Nassau Community College, Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, and some of the housing and recreational facilities for Hofstra University.
A similar marker noting the founding of the Ninety-Nines was placed at the same location on November 2, 1979, the 50th anniversary of the event. [15] The marker is now at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, Long Island.
On March 15, 2009, after painstakingly restoring the carousel to its former glory, Nassau County reopened the carousel in its new home, the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Museum Row, near the Nassau Coliseum in Garden City, Long Island. [2] [3] The caretakers for the old carousel said that it was scheduled to open for rides on Saturday, May 2, 2009.