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Lyon Air Museum. / 33.67347; -117.8732. The Lyon Air Museum is an aerospace museum located on the west side of the John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana, California, United States. The museum features military aircraft, rare automobiles, military vehicles and motorcycles, and related memorabilia, with an emphasis on World War II.
Bowers Museum. Santa Ana. Multiple. Orange County history, Native American, African, Pre-Columbian and Asian art, paintings, South American ethnographic items, decorative arts, natural history. Bradford House. Placentia. Historic house. Operated by the Placentia Founders Society, furnished in 1900-1920s style.
Lyon Air Museum, founded by Major General William Lyon in 2009, is located in a hangar on the west side of the airport. It focuses particularly on World War II military aircraft and vehicles. The museum hosts the Collings Foundation, an annual flight experience program, every spring, allowing the public the opportunity to fly in a historic ...
In 1981, Lyon and fellow Orange County developer George Argyros bought Newport Beach-based airline AirCal, controlling it until its sale to American Airlines in 1987. [3] [4] Lyon founded the Lyon Air Museum near the John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California. [5] [6]
Planes of Fame Air Museum was founded by Edward T. Maloney on January 12, 1957, in Claremont, California, to save historically important aircraft. [ 2] At that time, it was called The Air Museum. A small group of volunteers, including future museum president Steve Hinton, set out to make the museum's aircraft flyable.
Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum. / 32.89111°N 117.13917°W / 32.89111; -117.13917. The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum is a United States Marine Corps aviation museum currently located at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California. The museum contains exhibits and artifacts relating to the history and legacy of ...
The Air Station was established in 1942 by the United States Navy as a lighter-than-air base, officially known as Naval Air Station Santa Ana. [2] The base was designed for blimp operations in support of the Navy's coastal patrol efforts during World War II. It was commissioned on 1 October 1942 by its commandant, Capt. Howard N. Coulter. [3]
O. Ocean Institute. Old Orange County Courthouse (California) Orange County Museum of Art.