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The Tulsa Air and Space Museum (TASM) is an aerospace museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. It is located in the northwest corner of the Tulsa International Airport property. It has 19,000 square feet (1,800 m 2) of historical exhibits, hands-on activities, and vintage aircraft. A full-dome planetarium was added in 2006.
Britten-Norman (BN) is a privately owned British aircraft manufacturer and aviation services provider. The company is the sole independent commercial aircraft producer in the United Kingdom. Britten-Norman has so far manufactured and sold its aircraft to customers in more than 120 countries.
Aerospace: Tulsa Geoscience Center: Tulsa: Tulsa: Green Country: Science: website, geology, earthquakes, oil exploration and industry Tulsa Historical Society: Tulsa: Tulsa: Green Country: Local history: website, located in the historic Samuel Travis Mansion, changing exhibits of Tulsa and Oklahoma history Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum: Tulsa ...
Pages in category "Aerospace museums in Oklahoma" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium
Norman had been a founder of the Britten-Norman company, the manufacturers of the Islander. NDN Aircraft designed a new agricultural aircraft, the NDN-6 Fieldmaster. This was a large single-engined low-winged monoplane with a fixed tricycle undercarriage, powered by a Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6 turboprop engine, the first western-built ...
The Fairey Britten-Norman Aircraft Company was taken over by Pilatus, then a subsidiary of the Oerlikon group in Switzerland. The rescue action was taken by the Government under section 8 of the Industry Act 1972 acquiring from the official receiver of the Fairey Company Ltd the entire share capital for £201,163,000.
In 1951 Peter Gatrell, John Britten & Desmond Norman built and flew an ultra-light monoplane, their first aircraft, which made its first flight at Bembridge, Isle of Wight, on 16 May 1951. This machine crashed on an early flight, when the petrol supply to the 40 hp Aeronca-J.A.P. J-99 twin cylinder air-cooled engine faded out. [ 2 ]
Britten-Norman Nymph [39] Britten Norman Islander; Britten-Norman Trislander; Fairey-Britten-Norman Mainlander [40] The aircraft was designed to carry 100 passengers or ten tonnes of freight or vehicles over 250 miles (400 km) at 200 kn (370 km/h; 230 mph). At the maximum take-off weight of 62,500 lb (28,300 kg) and sea level, ISA plus 20 °C ...