Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum

Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum
Established	May 6, 1978
Location	Brown Field Marine Corps Base Quantico Quantico, Virginia United States
Type	Military History

The Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum was located at Brown Field, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Quantico, Virginia. It housed a wide variety of historic Marine Corps vehicles/tanks (both wheeled and tracked), equipment, artillery pieces and aircraft (both fixed wing (airplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters)) to trace the evolution and significance of the Marine Air-Ground Team.^[1] It also contained several pieces of foreign equipment, such as a Soviet SU-76M self-propelled howitzer.^[2] The museum closed on November 15, 2002, during the establishment of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

History

The museum initially opened on May 6, 1978, as the Marine Corps Aviation Museum and eventually became the Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum in the mid-1980s as the collection expanded beyond aviation assets.^[3] The museum began in two aircraft hangars and added a third in 1990.^[3]

See also

• History of the United States Marine Corps
• Marine Corps Base Quantico
• Marine Corps Museums

Notes

1. ^ Marine Corps Base Installation Guide. "United States Marine Corps Air/Ground Museum, Aviation Enthusiast Corner website, last updated February 14, 2000. Retrieved on March 30, 2008.
2. ^ Smith-Christmas, Kenneth. "Korean War Exhibits Enhanced for New Museum Season", Fortitudine, vol XXII, no. 4 (Spring 1993), p. 32.
3. ^ ^{a b} "National Museum of the Marine Corps Collection Rationale", 2008.

External links

• United States Marine Corps Air/Ground Museum. Information from Aviation Enthusiast Corner website.