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The airport is about 2 miles (3 km) from the Pacific Ocean (Santa Monica Bay) and 6 miles (10 km) north of Los Angeles International Airport, and south of The 10.The Museum of Flying is located in facilities leased from the City of Santa Monica at 3100 Airport Avenue, south of Santa Monica Airport.
Retired from military service in 1946, now on display at Museum of Flying, July 2024 Santa Monica Museum of Flying, exterior view Statue of Donald W. Douglas Sr. with the Spirit of Santa Monica, a modified DC-3, outside the Museum. The Museum of Flying is a private non-profit aerospace museum in Santa Monica, California. It was founded in 1974 ...
Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, San Diego; Gillespie Field Annex, San Diego Air and Space Museum, El Cajon; Golden Age Flight Museum, Tehachapi [39] Hiller Aviation Museum, San Carlos; Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Palmdale [40] Lyon Air Museum, Santa Ana; March Field Air Museum, Riverside; Milestones of Flight Museum, Lancaster – closed
The museum has on display "The Spirit of Seventy-Six," a DC-3 that flew in commercial airline service, before serving as a corporate aircraft for Union 76 Oil Company for 32 years. The plane was built in the Douglas Aircraft Company plant in Santa Monica in January 1941, which was a major producer of both commercial and military aircraft. [303]
The Oklahoma Route 66 Museum in Clinton, Oklahoma, covers the history of Route 66 from Chicago, Illinois to Santa, Monica, California. It is the largest museum dedicated to the history and culture of Route 66, the most famous highway in the World. The museum also offers changing special exhibits, focusing on the Route 66 experience in the Now ...
The aircraft was on loan from the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and was returned in 2005. [31] Since February 2012, New Orleans is at the Museum of Flying in Santa Monica, California. [32] The wreckage of Seattle was recovered and is now on display in the Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum. [33]
The Santa Monica Landmarks and Historic Districts Ordinance was amended in 1987 and again in 1991, to create a more comprehensive preservation program. The ordinance established a seven-member appointed Landmarks Commission with the power to designate Structures of Merit and Landmarks, and to make recommendations to the City Council regarding ...
Originally Clover Field, after World War I aviator 2nd lieutenant Greayer "Grubby" Clover, the airport was the home of the Douglas Aircraft company. [3] [7] [8] [9]The first circumnavigation of the world by air, accomplished by the U.S. Army in a fleet of special custom built aircraft named the Douglas World Cruiser, took off from Clover Field on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1924, and returned ...