In addition to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, the USAF operates several field museums and heritage centers. Please call ahead as some may not be open to the public. They are: Air Force Armament Museum - Eglin AFB, Fla. Air Force Flight Test Center Museum - Edwards AFB, Calif. Air Force Space and Missile Museum - Cape Canaveral AFS, Fla. Air Mobility Command Museum - Dover AFB, Del. Barksdale Global Power Museum - Barksdale AFB, La. Enlisted Heritage Research Institute - Maxwell AFB, Ala. Hill Aerospace Museum - Hill AFB, Utah Malmstrom AFB Museum - Malmstrom AFB, Mont. McChord Heritage Center - McChord AFB, Wash. Museum of Aviation - Robins AFB, Ga. Peterson Air and Space Museum - Peterson AFB, Colo. Sheppard AFB Heritage Center - Shepperd AFB, Texas South Dakota Air and Space Museum - Ellsworth AFB, S.D. Travis AFB Heritage Center - Travis AFB, Calif. USAF Airman Heritage Museum - Lackland AFB, Texas Warren ICBM and Heritage Museum - F.E. Warren AFB, Wyo.
There are numerous military and civilian aviation museums in the United States and abroad. Here are links to a few museums: 390th Memorial Museum - Tucson, Ariz. Aerospace Museum of California - McClellan, Calif. American Airpower Heritage Museum - Midland, Texas American Airpower Museum - Farmingdale, N.Y. Canada Aviation Museum - Ottawa, Ontario, Canda Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - Mount Hope, Ontario, Canada Castle Air Museum - Atwater, Calif. Cradle of Aviation Museum - Garden City, N.Y. De Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre - Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum - McMinnville, Ore. Flying Leathernecks Aviation Museum - San Diego, Calif. Flying Tiger Historical Organization - Guilin, China French Aviation and Space Museum - Le Bourget, France Glenn H. Curtiss Museum - Hammondsport, N.Y. Grissom Air Museum - Peru, Ind. Hickory Aviation Museum - Hickory, N.C. Historic Aviation Memorial Museum - Tyler, Texas Imperial War Museums - United Kingdom Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum - New York, N.Y. Kansas Aviation Museum - Wichita, Kan. Kansas Cosmosphere & Space Center - Hutchinson, Kan. Lone Star Flight Museum - Galveston, Texas Louisville Naval Museum - Louisville, Ky. MAPS Air Museum - North Canton, Ohio March Field Air Museum - Riverside, Calif. Motts Military Museum - Groveport, Ohio Museum of Flight - Seattle, Wash. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) (photo collection) National Aviation Hall of Fame (located in the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force) National Museum of the Marine Corps - Triangle, Va. National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force - Pooler, Ga. National Naval Aviation Museum - NAS Pensacola, Fla. National WASP World War II Museum - Sweetwater, Texas Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum - Rantoul, Ill. Pacific Aviation Museum - Ford Island, Hawaii Pima Air & Space Museum - Tucson, Ariz. Royal Air Force Museum - London and Cosford, United Kingdom Royal Australian Air Force Museum - RAAF Williams Point Cook, Victoria, Australia Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum - Christchurch, New Zealand San Diego Air & Space Museum - San Diego, Calif. Silent Wings Museum - Lubbock, Texas Smithsonian, National Air & Space Museum - Washington, D.C. and Chantilly, Va. Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum - Ashland, Neb. Titan Missile Museum - Sahuarita, Ariz. U.S. Army Aviation Museum - Fort Rucker, Ala. WACO Air Museum - Troy, Ohio Wings of Eagles Discovery Center - Horseheads, N.Y. Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum - Denver, Colo. Yankee Air Museum - Belleville, Mich.
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