Tillamook Air Museum facts for kids
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Established | 1994 |
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Location | Tillamook, Oregon |
Type | Aviation museum |
Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum south of Tillamook, Oregon in the United States. The museum is housed in a former US Navy blimp hangar, called "Hangar B", which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world.
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History
Constructed by the US Navy in 1942 during World War II for Naval Air Station Tillamook, the hangar building housing the aircraft is 1,072 feet (327 m) long and 296 feet (90 m) wide, giving it over 7 acres (2.8 ha) of area. It stands at 192 feet (59 m) tall. The doors weigh 30 short tons (27 t) each and are 120 feet (37 m) tall. Hangar "B" is one of two that were originally built on the site. Hangar "A" was destroyed by fire in August,1992.
In April 2013, the museum announced that the part of its collection owned by Jack Erickson would be moving from Tillamook to Madras, Oregon. All of the World War II aircraft had been removed by September 2014.
In November 2014, the owners of Hangar B, the Port of Tillamook Bay, announced that they would continue operation of the Tillamook Air Museum with the remaining collection.
In 2016, the Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum moved a number of their aircraft to the museum.
Collection
Aircraft on display
- Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy
- Alenia C-27A Spartan
- BAC Jet Provost
- Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger
- Bellanca 14-13 Cruisair Senior
- Brown Starlite
- Cessna 180F Skywagon
- Chris-Teena Mini Coupe
- Convair 880 – Forward fuselage
- Cvjetkovic CA-65 Skyfly
- Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
- Douglas A-26C Invader
- ERCO Ercoupe 415C
- Fairchild GK-1
- Fisher R-80 Tiger Moth
- Grumman F-14A Tomcat
- Kaman HTK-1 Huskie
- Learjet 24
- LTV A-7 Corsair II
- Nieuport 11 – Replica
- Nord 1101 Noralpha
- PZL-Mielec Lim-6bis
- Rans S-4 Coyote
- Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ
- Rutan Quickie
- WindRyder
Exhibits
The Museum also features an exhibit hall with a large collection of rare historical wartime and aviation themed artifacts including pieces of the great German airship, the Hindenburg, a World War II Luftwaffe flight jacket and a WWII Japanese Army Winter flight suit.
- Anderson Air Raid Shelter walk-thru interactive exhibit
- Curtiss SB2C Helldiver crash exhibit