List of United States Air Force museums
The United States Air Force maintains a number of Field Museums and Heritage Centers.[1]
Current museums
- National Museum of the United States Air Force – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
- Air Force Armament Museum – Eglin AFB, near Valparaiso, Florida
- Air Force Flight Test Center Museum – Edwards AFB, near North Edwards and Rosamond, California
- Air Force Space and Missile Museum – Cape Canaveral AFS, north of Patrick AFB and Cocoa Beach, Florida
- Air Mobility Command Museum – Dover AFB, near Dover, Delaware
- Barksdale Global Power Museum – Barksdale AFB, near Bossier City, Louisiana
- Enlisted Heritage Research Institute – Maxwell AFB, Alabama
- Hill Aerospace Museum – northwest of Hill AFB, near Ogden, Utah
- Malmstrom AFB Museum – Malmstrom AFB, Montana
- McChord Air Museum – McChord AFB, near Tacoma, Washington
- Museum of Aviation – near Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia
- Peterson Air and Space Museum – Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Sheppard AFB Heritage Center – Sheppard AFB, Texas
- South Dakota Air and Space Museum – Box Elder, South Dakota (outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB)
- Thunderbirds Museum – Nellis AFB, near Las Vegas, Nevada
- Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center – Travis AFB, near Fairfield, California
- USAF Airman Heritage Museum – Lackland AFB, Texas
- Warren ICBM and Heritage Museum – F.E. Warren AFB, near Cheyenne, Wyoming
Closed museums
- Beale Air Force Base Museum – Beale Air Force Base, east of Marysville, California (closed in February 1995)[2]
- Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine – Brooks City-Base, San Antonio, Texas (closed in 2011)
- USAF Security Forces Museum – Lackland AFB, next to San Antonio, Texas (closed in August 2014)[3]
Former museums
These museums were once part of the Air Force museum system, but have since become private:
- Aerospace Museum of California[4]
- Castle Air Museum[5][6][7]
- Grissom Air Museum[8]
- March Field Air Museum[9]
- Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum[10]
See also
References
- ^ "Other Aviation Museums". National Museum of the US Air Force. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ Leland, John W.; Wilcoxson, Kathryn A. (May 2003). The Chronological History of the C-5 Galaxy (PDF). Scott Air Force Base, Illinois: Office of History, Air Mobility Command. pp. 83–84. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
- ^ "About Us". USAF Police Alumni Association. USAF Police Alumni Association. Retrieved 18 October 2016.
- ^ "Welcome!". Aerospace Museum of California. Archived from the original on 20 June 2006. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "World War II Air Force Memories Will Abound at Castle Museum". West Side Index. 18 June 1981. p. 11.
- ^ "Face Lift on Tap for Air Museum's 'Movie Stars'". The Sun. McClatchy. 3 January 1995. p. B6.
- ^ "Castle Air Museum Struggling to Stay Open". Visalia Times-Delta. 30 November 2002. p. 2C.
- ^ "Grissom Air Museum Hires New Director/Curator". Mitchell Tribune. 13 September 1995. p. 4.
- ^ "Our History". March Field Air Museum. March Field Air Museum. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
- ^ "About Us". Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum. Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum. Retrieved 18 October 2016.