The Air Power Park is an outdoor, roadside museum in

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which recognizes Hampton's role in America's early

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and aircraft testing. The outdoor park is open year-round, seven days a week from sunrise to sunset. Several vintage aircraft and experimental space launch vehicles from the 1950s and 1960s are displayed out of doors. The park is on a plot and includes a children's playground. The indoor museum at the center of the park was reopened after a 2011 renovation (with hours more limited than the outdoor part of the park). There are eight themed rooms containing over 325 models of aircraft, space craft, and nautical vessels representing all the U.S. branches of service as well as various model craft from other nations. The park also has a time capsule

Indoor museum

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agency of the US federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research. NASA was established in 1958, succeedin ...

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United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Originally created on 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Si ...

Aviation Room- Including items highlighting nearby Langley Air Force Base's contribution to the USAF. *General Aviation Room *Library *

Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because t ...

Era Room * International Plastic Modellers' Society Room- containing periodically rotating display of local IPMS member's models. *

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage ...

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United States Army Aviation Branch The United States Army Aviation Branch is the administrative organization within the United States Army responsible for doctrine, manning and configuration for all army aviation units. After the United States Army Air Corps grew into the Army ...

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On display

The following are listed as on display:Air Power Park Brochure
/ref> * P.1127 Kestrel * F-86L Sabre * Mercury capsule * A-7E Corsair II * F-101F Voodoo * F-89J Scorpion *

RF-4C Phantom II The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy.Swanborough and Bow ...

* F-105D Thunderchief * T-33A Trainer *

Jupiter IRBM The PGM-19 Jupiter was the first nuclear armed, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) of the United States Air Force (USAF). It was a liquid-propellant rocket using RP-1 fuel and LOX oxidizer, with a single Rocketdyne LR79-NA (model S-3D) ...

* Nike SAM * Nike Ajax SAM * Nike Hercules SAM *

F-100D Super Sabre The North American F-100 Super Sabre is an American supersonic jet fighter aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1954 to 1971 and with the Air National Guard (ANG) until 1979. The first of the Century Series of US ...

* Polaris A-2 SLBM * Corporal IRBM * Little Joe/Mercury, booster used in testing for the Mercury program. Launched from

Wallops Flight Facility Wallops Flight Facility (WFF) is a rocket launch site on Wallops Island on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, United States, just east of the Delmarva Peninsula and approximately north-northeast of Norfolk. The facility is operated by the Godda ...

, 90 miles north.

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Air Power Park
- City of Hampton

– Aviation Enthusiast Corner
Roadside America

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- satellite map view (with clickable aircraft info) {{authority control Aerospace museums in Virginia Crewed spacecraft Military and war museums in Virginia Virginia municipal and county parks Museums in Hampton, Virginia Parks in Hampton, Virginia Open-air museums in Virginia Time capsules

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