Tillamook Air Museum is an

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south of

Tillamook, Oregon The city of Tillamook is the county seat of Tillamook County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on the southeast end of Tillamook Bay on the Pacific Ocean. The population was 5,231 at the 2020 census. History The city is named for the ...

in the United States. The museum is located at a former

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Air Station and housed in a former blimp hangar, known as "Hangar B", which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world.

History

The six-blimp hangar was built by the

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in 1942 during

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for Naval Air Station Tillamook. It is long and wide, covering more than . It stands tall. Each door weighs and are tall. Its companion building, Hangar "A", was destroyed by fire on August 22, 1992. Between April 2013 and September 2014, the museum moved the part of its collection owned by Jack Erickson from Tillamook to

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. In November 2014, the owners of Hangar B, the Port of Tillamook Bay, announced that they would continue operation of the Tillamook Air Museum with the remaining collection. In 2016, the Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum moved some aircraft to the museum. In 2021, the museum received a

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cockpit on loan from Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects.

Collection

Tillamook Air Museum (Tillamook County, Oregon scenic images) (tilD0089)

Aircraft on display

* Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy * Alenia C-27A Spartan *

BAC Jet Provost The BAC Jet Provost is a British jet trainer aircraft that was in use with the Royal Air Force (RAF) from 1955 to 1993. It was originally developed by Hunting Percival from the earlier piston engine-powered Percival Provost basic trainer, a ...

* Boeing B-52 Stratofortress cockpit * Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger * Bellanca 14-13 Cruisair Senior * Brown Starlite * Cessna 180F Skywagon * Chris-Teena Mini Coupe * Convair 880 – Forward fuselage * Cvjetkovic CA-65 Skyfly * Douglas A-4B Skyhawk * Douglas A-26C Invader * ERCO Ercoupe 415C * Fairchild GK-1 *

Fisher R-80 Tiger Moth The Fisher R-80 Tiger Moth is a Canadian two-seat, conventional landing gear, single engined, biplane kit aircraft designed for construction by amateur builders. The designation indicates that the aircraft is 80% the size of the aircraft tha ...

Grumman F-14A Tomcat The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic aircraft, supersonic, twinjet, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experi ...

* Kaman HTK-1 Huskie *

Learjet 24 The Learjet 24 is an American six-to-eight-seat (two crew and four to six passengers) twin-engine, high-speed business jet, which was manufactured by Learjet as the successor to the Learjet 23. History The Learjet 24 was designed as an improve ...

LTV A-7 Corsair II The LTV A-7 Corsair II is an American carrier-capable subsonic light attack aircraft designed and manufactured by Ling-Temco-Vought (LTV). The A-7 was developed during the early 1960s as replacement for the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk. Its design was ...

* Nieuport 11 – Replica * Nord 1101 Noralpha * PZL-Mielec Lim-6bis *

PT-17 Stearman The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Stearman Aircraft became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely kno ...

* Rans S-4 Coyote * Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ *

Rutan Quickie The Rutan Quickie is a lightweight single-seat taildragger aircraft of composite construction, configured with tandem wings. The Quickie was primarily designed by Burt Rutan as a low-powered, highly efficient kit-plane. Its tandem wing desig ...

* Ryan PT-22 ST-3KR * WindRyder

Exhibits

The Museum also features an exhibit hall with a large collection of rare historical wartime and aviation themed artifacts including pieces of the great German airship, the Hindenburg, a World War II

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and a WWII Japanese Army Winter flight suit. * Anderson Air Raid Shelter walk-thru interactive exhibit *

Curtiss SB2C Helldiver The Curtiss SB2C Helldiver is a dive bomber developed by Curtiss-Wright during World War II. As a carrier-based bomber with the United States Navy (USN), in Pacific theaters, it supplemented and replaced the Douglas SBD Dauntless. A few surviv ...

crash exhibit

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