Massey Air Museum

Massey Air Museum at Massey Aerodrome is a U.S. living airport-museum reminiscent of rural airports shortly after WWII. It is located on the Eastern Shore of Maryland (20 minutes south of Middletown, DE). The museum is a non-profit organization dedicated to familiarizing the general public with the classic tail wheel aircraft of "grassroots aviation" and educate about the aviation heritage of Maryland and Delaware.

Massey Air Museum
Established2001
Location33541 Maryland Line Rd, Massey, Maryland 21650
Websitemasseyaero.org

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History

Massey Aerodrome is a Public Use airport with a 3000’ x 100’ grass runway (ID: MD1) dedicated to the preservation of Grassroots Aviation. Opposing the national trend of airport closings, Massey is a “new” public use airport. It was created from farmland in 2001 by 4 pilots with a love of aviation - strictly as a hobby. One of the founders had always had a dream of owning his own airport so he and 3 like-minded pilots joined together to buy a 93 acre farm in Kent Co., Maryland. They got the permits and registrations from the FAA, excavated and seeded the runways, converted the grain storage barns into hangars and have been restoring planes and holding Fly-ins ever since. In 2015, five new partners joined the one remaining original partner to assure the continuing success of Massey. At Massey Aerodrome, there is an Air Museum, a static DC-3 that you can enter, 23 flying airplanes, 11 gliders, a rotating beacon tower, a working windmill with cypress wood tank inside the tower and an EAA Chapter.

Aircraft Based at Massey Aerodrome (Dec. 2019)

Flying aircraft based at Massey Aerodome (Community Hangars & Tie-Downs):

  • 1947 Aeronca 7CCM (L-16)
  • 1992 Bailey-Moyes Dragonfly
  • 1975 Bellanca 7ECA Citabria
  • 1941 Boeing Stearman B75N1 PT-17, "U.S ARMY 747" (engine: 450 hp P&W R-985)
  • 1944 Boeing Stearman E75N1, (engine: 225 hp Lycoming R680) “VN2S-5”
  • 1957 Cessna 172
  • 1991 Pietenpol Aircamper BJ-1 (29’ Clip Winged Piper wings)
  • 1967 Piper Cherokee Cruiser PA-28-140
  • 1939 Piper Cub J3C
  • 1960 Piper PA-25 Pawnee
  • 1957 Piper Tri-Pacer PA-22-150
  • 1943 Stinson/Vultee V-77 (“Gull Wing” Reliant)
  • 1990 Wolf W-11 Boredom Fighter

Flying aircraft based in Massey Aerodome T Hangars:

  • 1967 Cessna 150H
  • 1981 Cessna 172P
  • 1960 Cessna 182D
  • 1963 Cessna 182G (Massey Air Museum glider tow plane)
  • 1940 Piper Clip Wing Cub J3C-65, (engine: Lycoming 0-145B)
  • 1946 Piper Cub J-3C-65
  • 1950 Piper Pacer PA-20 (engine: 125 hp Lycoming O-290-D)
  • 1936 Hammond 100 biplane (s/n 204), (engine: Kinner 100 hp)
  • 2011 Searey (rotax engine)
  • 1939 WACO ZKS-7 (engine: Lycoming R680 conversion)

Gliders:

  • Bailey-Moyes Tempest Microlight glider, single place, glide ratio: 23:1 at 37 mph
  • (Trailer) 1965 SCHLEICHER K-10 A (#10009) glider, glide ratio: best, 32:1
  • 1952 SCHWEIZER SGS 1-23 (#102) glider, Sgl. place, glide ratio: 30.8:1 at 50 mph
  • 1975 SCHWEIZER SGS 1-35 (#24) glider, Sgl. place, glide ratio: 38:1 at 55 mph
  • 1968 SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26B (#393) glider, Sgl. place, glide ratio: 23:1@ 53 mph
  • 1963 SCHWEIZER SGS 1-26B (#192) glider, Sgl. place, glide ratio: 23:1@ 53 mph
  • 1955 SCHWEIZER SGU 2-22 (#39) glider, 2 place, glide ratio: 17:1@ 47 mph
  • (Trailer) 1972 SCHWEIZER SGS 2-33A (#231) glider, 2 place, glide ratio: 22.25:1

Motor Gliders:

  • (Trailer) 2000 Aviastroitel AC-5M self-launching motor-glider, 25 hp, Russia
  • (Trailer) 2005 TeST TST-10 Atlas self-launching motor-glider, 40 hp Rotax 447, glide ratio: 40:1, Wingspan: 15.00 m (49 ft 3 in), Czech Republic
  • (Trailer) 2006 TST-14M Bonus motor-glider, 50 hp Rotax 503UL (Certif. 05/08/2019)

Non-Flying Aircraft:

  • 1963 Piper Colt PA-22-108

Static outdoor museum display:

  • N18111 1937 Douglas DC-3A (s/n #1983) United Airlines.

Inside the museum:

  • Replica 1911 Wright glider made by Jimmy Dayton.
  • N738 1946 Ercoupe 415-C, s/n 1788. Eng: 75 HP Cont. C85.

Engines on display:

  • 1710 hp, 14 cylinder, Wright R-2600 Radial as used on the B-25 bomber and B-314 Boeing Clipper.
  • 160 hp, Kinner 5 cylinder Radial engine
  • 37 hp Continental A-40 4 cylinder flat head engine (Single spark plug & ignition) 2550 rpm, wt. 144 lb. (introduced on the 1931 - 1936 Taylor E-2 Cub)
  • 65 hp Lycoming O-145-B2 4 cylinder horizontally opposed engine (overhead valves, dual ignition). 2300 rpm, weight 165.5 lb. (1938 to late 1940s).
  • Cut-away Engine - Spanish Elizalde Tigre IVB (150 hp) four-cylinder inverted air-cooled engine (ca. 1940s). Used in C.A.S.A. 1.131E (license-built Bücker 131 Jungmann).

Static Museum Display Project in West Hangar:

  • N42DL 1993 Lance Aero (Bellanca 14-13), Experimental, Amateur Built (Non-Flying museum project).

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