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The National Soaring Museum (NSM) is an aviation museum whose stated aim is to preserve the history of motorless flight. It is located on top of Harris Hill near Elmira, New York, United States. [2] The NSM is the Soaring Society of America's official repository.
The Texas Air Museum Stinson Chapter was founded by John Douglas Tosh, a World War II veteran, [2] on October 9, 1999. This is San Antonio Texas only aviation museum open to the general public. The museum's mission has been dedicated to tell the stories of San Antonio's and Texas' vital role in the development of civilian and military air power.
[4] [5] The museum displays aviation artifacts and provides historical interpretation on a variety of civil and military topics. FWAM operates under the charter of the OV-10 Bronco Association, Inc., [6] a 501(c)(3) not for profit corporation. In addition to an air park with twenty-four airplanes, FWAM houses two museums.
The museum opened to the public on 5 March 2010. [16] By the end of September, it had changed its name back to Mid America Museum of Aviation & Transportation. [17] Construction on a new memorial to United Airlines Flight 232 began in May 2014. [18] Two months later, the museum held a three day event on the 25th anniversary of the crash.
Yanks Air Museum houses one of the largest and most historically significant collections of American aircraft including the World War II fighters, dive and torpedo bombers. The aircraft collection begins with the 1903 Wright Flyer (only replica in collection) and continues through the 1980s era represented by the F-15 Eagle, F-16 Fighting ...
It maintains a collection of aviation artifacts and an array of aircraft spanning the many years of the aircraft factory's history. The museum has many static displays which include a Republic F-84 first generation jet fighter , a rare example of the swept-wing RF-84F reconnaissance variant, and a Republic F-105 Thunderchief .
The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution is a museum in Washington, D.C., in the United States, dedicated to human flight and space exploration. Established in 1946 as the National Air Museum, its main building opened on the National Mall near L'Enfant Plaza in 1976.