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The museum is devoted to the history of naval aviation, including that of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard.Its mission is "to select, collect, preserve and display" appropriate memorabilia representative of the development, growth and historic heritage of United States Naval Aviation. [2]
The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum is a museum at Lexington Park, Maryland, first opened in 1978, which preserves and interprets the Naval Air Station Patuxent River history and heritage of advancing US naval aviation technology with artifacts, photographs and film, documents, and related heritage memorabilia from Patuxent River and other naval stations.
In January 1992, the Pax River Station acquired the Aircraft Division of the Naval Air Warfare Center (NAWCAD). The Naval Test Wing Atlantic (NTWL) was already located there, which was a branch of the Naval Air Warfare Center, created in 1991, and located in Washington, DC. Its mission was the development and improvement of weapons.
The museum is located in the airport's Hangar #1, which is typical of the design of many U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps aircraft hangars of the 1940s, many of which are still in use today at both active Naval Air Stations, Marine Corps Air Stations and Coast Guard Air Stations across the United States, as well as other civilian airports that ...
A military museum or war museum is an institution dedicated to the preservation and education of the significance of wars, conflicts, and military actions. These museums serve as repositories of artifacts (not least weapons), documents, photographs, and other memorabilia related to the military and war.
Naval Air Station Wildwood was a United States Navy airport located in Lower Township, Cape May County, New Jersey, United States, [1] about 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of the central business district of Wildwood, a city in the same county. [2]
Aug. 9—Preservation of several historic war birds is tantalizingly close for the former Naval Air Museum Barbers Point. The museum at Kalaeloa Airport closed in late 2019, making way for ...
DeLand Naval Air Station Museum, Deland; EAA Chapter 1241 Air Museum, Marathon [46] Fantasy of Flight, Polk City; Florida Air Museum, Lakeland; Flying Tigers Warbird Air Museum, Kissimmee [47] Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Merritt Island; Kissimmee Air Museum, Kissimmee; National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola