Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum facts for kids

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Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum

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Location	Maryland Heights, Missouri
Type	Aviation museum

The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum is a cool place in Maryland Heights, Missouri, at Creve Coeur Airport. It's all about bringing old airplanes back to life and keeping them safe. Most of the planes here are covered in fabric. Many are also biplanes, which means they have two sets of wings. These planes are mostly from the years between World War I and World War II, a time often called the "Golden Age of Flight."

What's really special is that volunteers at the museum work hard to keep most of these planes in perfect flying condition! This museum has one of the biggest collections of classic airplanes that can still fly in all of America.

Amazing Aircraft Collection

The museum's collection mainly focuses on civilian airplanes from the years between 1916 and 1946. You'll find several Waco biplanes here. The oldest Waco plane is a WACO 10, built in 1928. The very oldest airplane you can see is a Standard J-1 from 1917. This plane was even used in movies like The Rocketeer and The Great Waldo Pepper!

Some of the airplanes at the museum are the only ones of their kind that can still fly today.

If you're lucky, you might even get to take a ride! The museum sometimes offers flights in a de Havilland DH82 Tiger Moth or a North American SNJ-5. You can ask about this when you visit.

Planes You Can See

Here are some of the many airplanes on display at the museum:

Images for kids

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  WACO UBF-2 biplane.

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  Flagg F-13 biplane (1933)

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  Travelair 2000 biplane (1928) with OX engine

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  Curtiss Travel Air 16E

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  Shavrov Sh-2 seaplane

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  Standard J-1

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  Ryan PT-22 STA Ranger

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  WACO QF-2 biplane

See also

• Shuttleworth Collection