March Field Air Museum

March Field Air Museum
Established	1979
Location	Riverside County, near Moreno Valley, California
Type	Aviation museum
Director	Patricia Korzec
Curator	Jeff Houlihan
Website	March Field Air Museum

The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, adjacent to March Air Reserve Base.

Origins

The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. Originally operated by the Air Force, the museum's operation was transferred to a nonprofit organization in 1996.

Exhibits

Aircraft

The museum has over 70 aircraft on display. Some of the more notable aircraft include:

• A Lockheed P-38L Lightning replica. (The prototype XP-38 first flew on January 27, 1939 from March Field.)
• A Boeing B-29A Superfortess Flagship 500 that flew 11 combat missions during World War II.
• A Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter.
• A Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. This aircraft appeared in the movie Space Cowboys (2000).
• A Boeing GB-52D Stratofortress that flew 175 combat missions in the Vietnam War.
• A Northrop YA-9A, designed to the same requirements as the A-10 Warthog.
• A Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (44-6393), CP-627, CP-891
• Three F-4 Phantoms
• An F-14 Tomcat
• A Aichi D3A Val Dive Bomber
• An F-86 Sabre
• A MiG-15
• A MiG-21
• A MiG-23
• An F-100 Super Sabre

Indoor Exhibits

Indoor displays include:

• A Flight Simulator
• A movie played on a regular recurring schedule
• An AT-6 Texan
• Replicas of a German 30mm cannon and jet engines
• Missile and bomb cross-sections

Memorials

• A memorial to War dogs.

Photo gallery

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  B-29A Superfortress Flagship 500.

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  B-29A Superfortress Flagship 500.

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  The engines of the KC-97.

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  The nose of the B-47.

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  The engines of the C-141.

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  Lockheed SR-71A 'Blackbird' at the March Field Air Museum.

External links

• March Field Air Museum Official website
• War Dog Memorial by A. Thomas Schomberg