MAPS Air Museum

The MAPS Air Museum, run by the Military Aviation Preservation Society, is located off of SR241 on the west side of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport in Green, Ohio, United States.[1]

Overview

The museum displays aircraft in a former US Air National Guard hangar. The museum currently has over 47 aircraft and a collection of rare artifacts, as well as two aircraft from the Goodyear Rubber Company.

The museum has the Gondola from the "Spirt of Akron" a Goodyear blimp on display in the hangar. The museum also has three helicopters, two of which are on display for visitors to see. The helicopters on display, a Kiowa and a Cobra (both manufactured by Bell Helicopter), fought in the Vietnam war. Most of the aircraft are on loan from the US Air Force or Navy for restoration purposes.

The Gallery of Heroes

The museum also has a display room with detailed models and period items from wars. This area, dubbed the "Gallery of Heroes", has displays on Pearl Harbor, which includes a piece of the Battleship Arizona, The Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the Riveter, and other displays of members of the museum and community that fought in wars and have loaned their items to the museum to be put on display.

Louise Timken Aviation Library

Louise Timken Aviation Library

The mission of the Library & Archives is to maintain and preserve institutional records and to collect, preserve, and make available images, literature, manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, books, and oral histories relating to military history.

The library collection is open to the public with admission to the museum. Current up to date museum membership is required to check books out of the library.

Events

The museum hosts various events during the summer season. MAPS hosts organizations that fly in aircraft and sell rides.

List of Aircraft in Collection

A-26C Invader
C-47 Skytrain
Mig-17
S-2F Tracker
Ryan L-17B Navion
PT-19 Cornell
Vultee BT-13 Valiant
T-28 Trojan
T-33 Shooting Star
T-37A and T-37B Tweet
Beechcraft SNB-5
Vought A-7E Corsair II
F9F-8P Cougar
F11F Tiger
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
F-4S Phantom
F-14B Tomcat
F-84F Thunderstreak
F-86A Sabre
F-100D Super Sabre
F-101F Voodoo
F-102A Delta Dagger
F-105B Thunderchief
Bell AH-1 Cobra
US Aircraft A-67 Dragon
Goodyear GA-22A Drake
Link C-3 Trainer

See also

Reference's

  1. ↑ "MAPS Air Museum". Canton Stark County, USA. Archived from the original on October 6, 2011. Retrieved August 8, 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)

Coordinates: 40°55′01″N 81°27′16″W / 40.916902°N 81.454504°W / 40.916902; -81.454504

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