Pearson Air Museum

The Pearson Air Museum is an aviation museum at Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington, USA. The museum specializes in aircraft made before or during World War II. The displays are housed in the U.S.'s second oldest wooden aircraft hangar, built in 1918 and used as a hangar since 1921. During world war II it was used to house Italian prisoners of war. The museum and Pearson Field, along with the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, are part of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve.

Exhibited aircraft

The Pearson Air Museum displays a number of unusual, unique and historic aircraft. For example, an experimental and one-of-a-kind aircraft known as the "flying pickle" originally based at Watts Airport (or Bernard's Airport), is displayed at the Pearson. Alley reports on this unique airplane based at Watts Airport in 1929, that was an experimental one-of-a-kind model. [Bill Alley, "Pearson Field: Pioneering Aviation in Vancouver and Portland", Arcadia Publishing, 127 pages (2006) ISBN 0738531294] In this aircraft the pilot sits in an open air compartment, behind a roomy enclosed passenger cabin.

Trivia

* The Pearson Air Museum consists of two hangers, the smaller one is the 2nd oldest wooden structure in the U.S.
* The Museum has an aviation library for museum volunteers.

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External links

* [http://www.pearsonairmuseum.org/ Pearson Air Museum]