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As early as the late 1960s, Stanley Hiller began collecting aircraft at a warehouse in Redwood City, California. [1] [2] By 1986, it displayed 15 aircraft and set a goal of a acquiring a total of 28 of Hiller's designs. [3] Eight years later it had surpassed this and the Hiller Museum of Northern California Aviation Heritage included over 40 ...
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
Stanley Hiller donated money and a number of aircraft to form the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California, which opened in 1998. In 2009, the Hiller (China) Aircraft Manufacturing Company [6] began construction of a production facility in Zhangjiakou City, northwest of Beijing. The company is a joint venture between Hiller Aircraft ...
Lane, with a long interest in aviation, was a founding member of the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, CA. [16] The Lanes sponsored an internship program starting in 2002, the Bill and Jean Lane Internship Endowment at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution. [17]
One is located at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California, the other is at the National Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. [6] The latter platform was formerly on loan to the Pima Air & Space Museum. A replica of the 1031 platform is on display at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum.
This museum is open every Saturday from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM. The Hiller Aviation Museum, a museum specializing in helicopter and aviation history, offers interactive exhibits and more than forty aircraft including a replica of the first aircraft to fly, a spy drone with a 200-foot wingspan, and the nose section of a Boeing 747.
On April 5, 2008, a celebration of the 125th anniversary of John Montgomery's first glide took place at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. [ 121 ] In May 2016, the San Diego Air & Space Museum established a new exhibit for John J. Montgomery in their main rotunda, including The Evergreen glider from 1911 and Montgomery's ...
Hiller Aviation Museum; L. Lyon Air Museum; M. March Field Air Museum; USS Midway (CV-41) Minter Field Air Museum; Moffett Field Museum; Museum of Flying; N.