Tillamook Air Museum

Tillamook Air Museum

Infobox Museum
name = Tillamook Air Museum


imagesize = 250px
established = 1992
location = Tillamook, Oregon, United States
type = Private: aerospace
director =
curator =
website = [http://www.tillamookair.com/ TillamookAir.com]

Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum located south of Tillamook, Oregon at Tillamook Airport . The museum is housed in a former military blimp hangar, called "Hangar B", which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world. [Larsen, Jeff [http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/getaways/63078_shorttrips21.shtml Short Trips: Slice of history and a wedge of cheese] "Seattle-PI" 2002-03-21 retrieved 2008-04-24] Tillamook Air Museum has been described as "one of the country's top private World War II aircraft collections". [ [http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/10great/2004-06-03-wwii-sites_x.htm "10 great places to remember World War II"] "USA Today" 2004-06-04 retrieved 2008-04-24]

Constructed by the US Navy in 1942 during World War II for Naval Air Station Tillamook, the hangar building housing the aircraft is 1,072 feet long and 296 feet wide, giving it over six acres of space. It stands at 192 feet tall. The doors weigh 30 tons each and are 120 feet tall. Hangar "B" is one of two that were built on the site originally, Hangar "A" was destroyed by fire in 1992. [ [http://www.tillamookair.com/html/bldg.html Tillamook Air Museum: Building] ] [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/aviation/usb.htm U.S. Naval Air Station Dirigible Hangars] ]

Collections

The museum features a collection of over 30 aircraft, this is a listing of some of the more notable:
* Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy
* Aero L-29 Delfin
* Bellanca Air Cruiser 1938
* Boeing PT-17 Stearman
* Chance Vought A-7 Corsair
* Chance Vought F4U-7 Corsair "13372"
* Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina
* Douglas AD-4W Skyraider
* Douglas A-26 Invader
* Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
* Douglas SBD Dauntless dive bomber
* C-47 Skytrain
* Fairchild GK-1
* Martin AM-1 Mauler
* Grumman F-14A Tomcat
* Grumman FM-2 Wildcat
* Grumman TBM Avenger
* Kaman HTK -1 Helicopter
* Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon
* Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune
* Lockheed P-38 Lightning
* Messerschmitt Bf 109
* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17
* Nakajima Ki-43 Oscar
* Nord 1101
* North American P-51 Mustang

The Museum also features an exhibit hall with a large collection of rare historical wartime and aviation artifacts including pieces of the great German airship the Hindenburg and a WWII Luftwaffe flight jacket.

ee also

*Evergreen Aviation Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon: houses the Spruce Goose
*Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
*Moffett Federal Airfield

References

External links

* [http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?countrysearch=USA%20-%20Oregon&placesearch=Tillamook+(S47)&distinct_entry=true Photos of aircraft at Tillamook Air Museum] at Airliners.net
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/aviation/ Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service "Discover Our Shared Heritage" Travel Itinerary]


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