Aviation Museum Blueprints, Concept Art, and Renderings

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Historic Wendover Airfield, which was mentioned in a previous post, had a previous rendering of the restored Enola Gay Hangar with a B-29 parked in front of it:

Historic Wendover Airfield

• Exterior Rendering

(Source: Historic Wendover Airfield)

The Minter Field Air Museum had a plan for a large hangar and landscaped park:

Minter Field Air Museum

• Exterior Drawing

(Source: Minter Field Air Museum)

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Although not immediately obvious, the Fargo Air Museum has a rendering of a new glass-enclosed façade connecting their two existing hangars in the background of their donation page. This expansion is known as Phase III and, according to an event announcement, will include an event center:

Fargo Air Museum

• Southeast Exterior Perspective

(Source: Fargo Air Museum)

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The curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum sent me some renderings from April 2020 by HLW of their proposed new building on Wednesday and generously gave me permission to post them. The building will be located on the site of Hangar 1, which burned down in 1981.[1] It will have two floors, 20,000 square foot each and, excitingly, the upper one will have a proper library, archives and collections storage!

Cradle of Aviation Museum

Page 3

Page 4

Page 15

(Source: Cradle of Aviation Museum)

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The Valiant Air Command has plans to add a 300 foot x 428 foot concrete apron, a 140 foot x 160 foot event facility and two 120 foot x 180 foot hangars in that order:

Valiant Air Command

• Proposed Expansion Plan and Hangars (PDF, with text)

(Source: North Brevard Business Directory)

Artist’s rendition of the future Event Center

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(Source: North Brevard Business Directory)

EDIT (24-04-28): Add 2 event center renderings.

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The Texas Air & Space Museum has plans to renovate their 8 existing buildings and grain silo as well as build a welcome center/library/classrooms/conference building on a roughly 20 acre lot next to the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport:

Texas Air & Space Museum

• Entry and Welcome Center, Looking Southwest
• Mall, Looking East
• [Aerial Rendering, Looking Northwest]

(Source: Texas Air & Space Museum)

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(Source: Texas Air & Space Museum)

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The National Naval Aviation Museum, following the completion of Hangar Bay One in 2011 (Phase IV), had plans for an additional expansion (Phase V) to move more aircraft on the flightline inside:

National Naval Aviation Museum

• [Interior Rendering]

(Source: Naval Aviation Museum Foundation)

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Not unlike the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands as mentioned in a previous post, the Imperial War Museum Duxford also has plans to redesign its outdoor space and create an area called the Weston Play Zone:

Imperial War Museum Duxford

• [Aerial Drawing]

(Source: IWM)

The Valiant Air Command's current plans were mentioned in a previous post, but they had a concept for a much larger building resembling the design of the American Air Museum in 2012:

Bird‘s Eye View of the proposed new Valiant Air Command Museum Building.
It is to be constructed north of our current facilities, facing Columbia Boulevard.

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(Source: North Brevard Business Directory)

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The contractor for the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum's 1,800 square foot artifacts restoration center was mentioned in a previous post, but there is a rendering of it as well:

Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum

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(Source: Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum)