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.
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 (327Â m) long and 296 feet (90Â m) wide, giving it over 7 acres (2.8Â ha) of area. It stands at 192 feet (59Â m) tall. The doors weigh 30 short tons (27Â t) each and are 120 feet (37Â m) tall. Hangar "B" is one of two that were built on the site originally, Hangar "A" was destroyed by fire in August,1992.
USA Today described the Tillamook Air Museum in 2004 as "one of the country's top private World War II aircraft collections". However, in April 2013, the museum announced that the part of its collection owned by Jack Erickson would be moving from Tillamook to Madras, Oregon, and 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
Tillamook NAVAL AIR MUSEUM, Oregon - This museum is located about 10 min away from the Tillamook downtown, and about 25 min from the Oceanside.. Great place to learn about the history, and to check out the planes, jets, and helicopter...
The museum features a collection of more than 25 aircraft. This is a listing of some of the more notable:
- Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy
- Alenia C-27A Spartan
- BAC Jet Provost
- Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger
- Bellanca 14-13 Cruisair Senior
- Cessna 180F Skywagon (One of two light aircraft that were the first to land on the North Pole)
- Chris-Teena Mini Coupe
- Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
- Douglas A-26C Invader
- ERCO Ercoupe 415C
- Fairchild GK-1
- Fouga Magister
- Grumman F-14A Tomcat
- Kaman HTK-1 Huskie
- Learjet 24
- LTV A-7 Corsair II
- Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17F
- Nieuport 11 (replica)
- Nord 1101 Noralpha
- Rutan Quickie
- Fisher R-80 Tiger Moth
- Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ
- North American Sabreliner Coming soon
- Brown Starlite Homebuilt
- Cvjetkovic CA-65 Skyfly Homebuilt
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 WW II Japanese Army Winter flight suit.
Exhibits
- Anderson Air Raid Shelter walk-thru interactive exhibit
- SB2C Helldiver Crash Exhibit
Aircraft formerly included
Aircraft formerly part of the museum collection included the following:
- Bellanca Air Cruiser 1938
- Boeing PT-17 Stearman
See also
- Evergreen Aviation Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon
- List of aerospace museums
- Marine Corps Air Station Tustin
- Moffett Federal Airfield
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum in Hood River, Oregon
References
External links
Media related to Tillamook Air Museum at Wikimedia Commons
- Photos of aircraft at Tillamook Air Museum at Airliners.net
- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms, a National Park Service Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary
- Hardt, Ulrich H. "Naval Air Station Tillamook/Tillamook Air Museum". The Oregon Encyclopedia.Â
