Palm Springs Air Museum

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Coordinates: 33°49′57″N 116°30′17″W / 33.8325°N 116.5047°W / 33.8325; -116.5047
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Palm Springs Air Museum
Palm Springs Air Museum is located in southern California
Palm Springs Air Museum
Location within southern California
Established1996
LocationPalm Springs, California
Coordinates33°49′57″N 116°30′17″W / 33.8325°N 116.5047°W / 33.8325; -116.5047
TypeAviation museum
Collection size29 aircraft
FounderBob Pond & Pete Madison
DirectorFred Bell
ChairpersonDan Gilbertson
Websitewww.palmspringsairmuseum.org

Palm Springs Air Museum is an aviation museum Palm Springs, California focused on World War II aviation. The 501(c)(3) nonprofit leases from the city 17 acres abutting Palm Springs International Airport.

Grumman F8F Bearcat at Palm Springs Museum
Goodyear FG-1D Corsair

Beginnings[edit]

Dated January 5, 1994, the Organizational Certificate of Incorporation for the museum was signed by Harold N. (”Pete”) Madison, Charles H. Mayer, and Bill Byrne — the former two being members of the city’s airport commission. A former P-38 pilot, Madison contacted his friend Robert J. Pond, a Navy Air Corps World War II veteran who had been collecting and rebuilding warbirds and classic cars and helped established the Planes of Fame East Museum (closed in 1997) in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.1[1][2] The museum opened on Veterans Day (November 11) in 1996.

Hangars and visitor center[edit]

The museum encompasses five themed hangars:

The Pacific Hangar includes a Pearl Harbor diorama narrated by Tom Brokaw, ship and submarine models, an interactive map, and a tribute to USO-tour leader Bob Hope.

The European Hangar includes tributes to the Tuskegee Airmen and women in aviation. Also in this space is a walk-in F-16 Fighting Falcon flight simulator.

The B-17 Hangar houses the museum’s largest aircraft: a Boeing B-17G bomber that is available for interior tours.

The Korea/Vietnam Hangar includes a “Presidents Who Served” exhibition and display of POW/MIA bracelets accompanied prisoner-of-war videos.

The F-117A Hangar contains the museum’s Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk stealth fighter and a War on Terror timeline beginning September 11, 2001.

The visitor center includes a gift shop; a theater showing documentary films throughout the day; and a resource center that includes flight-simulator stations, books, magazines, DVDs, and veterans video interviews.

Collection[edit]

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References[edit]

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  20. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Northrop-Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless, s/n 36176 USN, c/n 4815". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  21. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Douglas TA-4J Skyhawk, s/n 154649 USN". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  22. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Engineering and Research Corporation 415C, c/n 4019, c/r N3394H". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  23. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar, s/n 53-8154 USAF, c/n 257, c/r N90267". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  24. ^ "Airframe Dossier - General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon, s/n 163277 USN, c/n 3M-10". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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  28. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Grumman F7F-3 Tigercat, s/n 80412 USN, c/n C.154, c/r N207F". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  29. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Grumman F-14A-105-GR Tomcat, s/n 160898 USN, c/n 327". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  30. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Grumman-General Motors Eastern Aircraft Division FM-2 Wildcat, s/n 55627 USN, c/n 3268, c/r N47201". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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  34. ^ "Palm Springs Air Museum's F-104 Starfighter Unveiling". Warbird Digest. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  35. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Lockheed-Fokker F-104G Starfighter, s/n D-8244 KLu, c/n 8244". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
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  38. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Lockheed TV-2 Shooting Star, s/n 126591 USN, c/n 580-5327, c/r N6633D". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  39. ^ "Airframe Dossier - McDonnell F-4S Phantom II, s/n 153851 USN, c/n 2299". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  40. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Northrop-McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A-14-MC (Lot 7) Hornet, s/n 162403 USN, c/n 231/A183". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
  41. ^ "Airframe Dossier - North American TB-25N Mitchell, s/n 44-86747 USAAF, c/n 108-47501, c/r N8163H". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  42. ^ "Airframe Dossier - North American F-100D-50-NH Super Sabre, s/n 3-888 THK, c/n 224-155, c/r N2011U". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  43. ^ "Airframe Dossier - North American P-51D-30-NA Mustang, s/n 9273 RCAF, c/n 122-41448, c/r N151BP". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
  44. ^ "Airframe Dossier - North American T-6G Texan, s/n 85 Racer, c/n 88-11594, c/r N85JR". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
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  52. ^ "Airframe Dossier - Vought-Goodyear FG-1D Corsair, s/n 215 FAS, c/n 3890, c/r N62290". Aerial Visuals. AerialVisuals.ca. Retrieved 25 March 2019.

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