List of United States Air Force museums

The United States Air Force maintains a number of Field Museums and Heritage Centers.^[1]

Current museums

• National Museum of the United States Air Force – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
• Air Force Armament Museum – Eglin AFB, near Valparaiso, Florida
• Air Force Flight Test Center Museum – Edwards AFB, near North Edwards and Rosamond, California
• Air Mobility Command Museum – Dover AFB, near Dover, Delaware
• Barksdale Global Power Museum – Barksdale AFB, near Bossier City, Louisiana
• Enlisted Heritage Research Institute – Maxwell AFB, Alabama
• Hill Aerospace Museum – northwest of Hill AFB, near Ogden, Utah
• Malmstrom Museum – Malmstrom AFB, Montana
• McChord Air Museum – McChord AFB, near Tacoma, Washington
• Museum of Aviation – near Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia
• Peterson Air and Space Museum – Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Sheppard AFB Heritage Center – Sheppard AFB, Texas
• South Dakota Air and Space Museum – Box Elder, South Dakota (outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB)
• Thunderbirds Museum – Nellis AFB, near Las Vegas, Nevada
• Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum – Travis AFB, near Fairfield, California
• USAF Airman Heritage Museum – Lackland AFB, near San Antonio, Texas
• Warren ICBM and Heritage Museum – F.E. Warren AFB, near Cheyenne, Wyoming

Closed museums

• 509th Bomb Wing Museum, Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri^{[2][failed verification]}
• Air Force Rescue Memorial Museum – Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico (closed January 1990)^[3]
• Beale Air Force Base Museum – Beale Air Force Base, east of Marysville, California (closed in February 1995)^[4]
• Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Museum – Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona (closed 1949)^[5]
• Dyess Air Force Base Museum – Dyess Air Force Base, Abilene, Texas (now exists as Dyess Linear Air Park)^{[6][failed verification]}
• Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine – Brooks City-Base, San Antonio, Texas (closed in 2011)
• Fairchild Heritage Museum – Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington (closed 2002)^[7][8][a]
• Grand Forks Air Force Base Museum – Grand Forks Air Force Base, Emerado, North Dakota^{[6][failed verification]}
• Lowry Heritage Museum – Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado^[10][11][b]
• Minot Air Force Base Museum – Minot Air Force Base, near Minot, North Dakota^{[6][failed verification]}
• Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum – Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, New York (closed in 1995)^[12]
• Randolph Air Force Base Museum – Randolph Air Force Base, Universal City, Texas (consolidated with Lackland museum in 1958)^[13]
• Silver Wings Aviation Museum – Mather Air Force Base, near Sacramento, California^[14][15][16]
• USAF Security Forces Museum – Lackland AFB, next to San Antonio, Texas (closed in August 2014 to became part of USAF Airman Heritage Museum)^{[17][failed verification]}

Former museums

These museums were once part of the Air Force museum system, but have since become private:

• Aerospace Museum of California^[18]
• Castle Air Museum^[19][20][21]
• Grissom Air Museum^[22]
• March Field Air Museum^[23]
• Minnesota Air National Guard Museum^{[citation needed]}
• Selfridge Military Air Museum^{[citation needed]}
• Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum^[24]

This museum was once part of the Air Force museum system, but was renamed and transferred to the Space Force when it became an independent branch:

• Air Force Space and Missile Museum^{[citation needed]}

See also

• National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
• Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum^[c]
• Pima Air & Space Museum

References

Footnotes

Notes

External links

• Air Force Museums and their Civilian Counterparts: Improving Both Sides of the Challenge Coin
• Department of the Air Force Heritage Program
• Museums and Money
• The History of the Air Force History and Museums Program

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