Chris Brame wrote:
Victory Air Museum (Gilmer, IL) - Earl Reinert sold off the last of his collection in the mid-80s.
Michigan Military Air Museum (Freeland, MI) - closed late 1974.
Another two museums I had never heard of before. This is turning into a learning experience. Thanks!
Question about the Victory Air Museum though. A quick Google search turned up
another thread on WIX that seemed to insinuate that the museum was still around in another incarnation. Apparently there is even a
website. Any thoughts on this?
The aforementioned thread also
mentioned another museum I have never heard of before: the "Polidori Air Museum".
Finally, to address
one other issue that thread brought up, I am interested in anything that was billed as a "museum" even if it was more of just a collection. As long as it referred to itself as one, go ahead and post it. I won't say I'll necessarily end up using it, but I can't even consider including it until I am aware it exists!
EDIT: I found a
post in another thread on WIX that quotes Baugher for a "Mid-Michigan Air Museum" in Freeland, Michigan. Do you know if it could have gone by a different name? Goodall
notes a HU-16 at a "Michigan Military Air Museum" in Saginaw, MI (of which Freeland is apparently a suburb). Finally, a
whole bunch of Google results are pointing me to something at the
Gerald R. Ford International Airport, but I'm thinking this is a misidentification due to public confusion. Tracking down information on museum that closed pre-Internet era is
hard!
BK wrote:
Noha307 wrote:
Strategic Air and Space Museum <--- Strategic Air Command Museum <--- Strategic Aerospace Museum
Is now Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.
http://sasmuseum.com/2015/05/06/renaming-the-museum/I feel like I saw that somewhere, but forgot about it. Thanks for (possibly) reminding me!
Also, it looks like they've come full circle with their name.
JohnB wrote:
There was also a "Movieworld" museum (IIRC called "Planes of Fame" and paired with "Cars of the Stars") in Buena Park, CA where they had statics like the now scrapped B-25 from the 70s TV movie Sole Survivor (a takeoff on the Lady Be Good). It closed in 1973.
Huh. So this "Movieworld" was separate from both the Tallmantz museum and the
modern day Planes of Fame museum?
EDIT: The
Wikipedia article about the current Planes of Fame museum claims that the "Movieworld" museum was an earlier location of the Maloney collection. So the "Planes of Fame" museum you referred to is the same as the current Planes of Fame?
JohnB wrote:
Payte Museum at Ft. Worth (closed a few years back...various military items including a few ac).
Another one I've never heard of! And I thought I knew 'em all! Thanks!
JohnB wrote:
Florence Air & Missile Museum in South Carolina consisted primarily ex-military stuff, many now rare types (B-66, etc.) were scrapped when it closed.
I forgot about this one. I remember it now because it's where the
only remaining BTD Destroyer came from.