An aviation museum , air museum , or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation . In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft , exhibits can include photographs , maps , models , dioramas , clothing and equipment used by aviators .
5-750: The Beechcraft Heritage Museum is an aviation museum at the Tullahoma Regional Airport in Tullahoma, Tennessee . It is focused on the history of the Beech Aircraft Corporation . The museum was founded by Carolyn and Richard Perry, Louise Thaden , W. C. Yarbrough, John Parrish, Sr., Jim Gorman and Glenn McNabb in October 1973 as the Staggerwing Museum Foundation . The museum opened to
10-593: A particular era, such as pioneer aviation or the succeeding "golden age" between the World Wars, aircraft of World War II or a specific type of aviation, such as gliding . Aviation museums may display their aircraft only on the ground or fly some of them. Museums that do not fly their aircraft may have decided not to do so either because the aircraft are not in condition to fly or because they are considered too rare or valuable. Museums may fly their aircraft in air shows or other aviation related events, accepting
15-458: The "Beech Party". Aviation museum Aviation museums vary in size from housing just one or two aircraft to hundreds. They may be owned by national, regional or local governments or be privately owned. Some museums address the history and artifacts of space exploration as well, illustrating the close association between aeronautics and astronautics . Many aviation museums concentrate on military or civil aviation, or on aviation history of
20-775: The public in June 1975 on land donated by John's wife Charlotte. The Beech Center, which acts as an entrance and lobby, was dedicated in 1995. It broke ground on the first phase of the Cianchette Hangar in 1998. It became the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in 2007. The museum dedicated a 36,000 sq ft (3,300 m) expansion to the Bonanza/Baron hangar and renamed it the Bost Hangar in October 2017. The museum holds an annual fly-in called
25-435: The risk that flying them entails. Some museums have sets of periodicals, technical manuals, photographs and personal archives. These are often made available to aviation researchers for use in writing articles or books or to aircraft restoration specialists working on restoring an aircraft. This aerospace museum–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This aviation -related article
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