Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum

The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, located at Creve Coeur Airport in Maryland Heights, Missouri, is a museum dedicated to restoring and preserving historical aircraft. The airplanes in the collection are all fabric-covered, and most are biplanes from the inter-war years (the "Golden age of flight"). The museum's volunteers maintain most of these aircraft in full working order and this is one of the largest collections of flying classic aircraft in America. [ [http://www.homeandabroad.com/c/110/Site/6016656_Historic_Aircraft_Restoration_Museum_visit.html Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum: Vintage Planes Up Close] ]

Collection

The museum collection concentrates on civil aircraft from the inter-war years, with most of the aircraft originating from 1916 to 1946. [ [http://www.fairchild24.com/museum.htm Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum] ] There are several WACO biplanes, with the oldest of these types being a WACO 10, which was built in 1938.Al Stix, Jr. [http://www.skywaysjournal.org/Images/article_%20restoration.pdf A Tour of the Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum] "Skyways magazine" April 2006] The oldest airplane on display is a Standard J-1 that was built in 1917 and was used in the movie The Rocketeer.

Aircraft rides are available at the museum by request, in either a Stearman WWII biplane trainer or in a North American SNJ-5. [ [http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/Museums/RideinHistoricAircraftOperatorsA-Z.html#U Fly a Vintage Aircraft] - List of operators which provide flights in vintage naval and other historic Aircraft]

ee also

* Vintage warbird restoration
* Experimental Aircraft Association
* Aviation archaeology

Gallery

Other large collections of flying historic aircraft

* Commemorative Air Force‎, in Midland, Texas.
* Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby, UK.
* Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK.
* Fantasy of Flight, in Polk City, Florida.
* Champlin Fighter Collection at the Seattle Museum of Flight.
* The Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas.
* The Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
* EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

References

External links

* [http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/ Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum] - Museum website
*Location - coord|38.72483|N|90.50943|W|
*Very high resolution panoramic
http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2284 Hangar 1] , [http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2277 Hangar 2] , [http://www.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=2268 Hangar 3]
*Don Parsons [http://www.airspacemag.com/history-of-flight/restoration_mar07.html Restoration] "Air & Space Magazine", March 01, 2007
*Linda Shiner [http://www.airspacemag.com/flight-today/coeur.html People and Planes of Creve Coeur] "Air & Space Magazine", July 01, 2005