March Field Air Museum
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| March Field Air Museum | |
| Established | 1979 |
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| Location | Riverside, CA |
| Director | Patricia Korzec |
| Website | http://marchairmuseum.com/ |
The March Field Air Museum is an air museum in Riverside, California, adjacent to March Air Reserve Base.
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[edit] Origins
The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. Originally operated by the Air Force, the museum's operation was transferred to a nonprofit organization in 1996.
[edit] Displays
The museum has over 60 aircraft on display. Some of the more notable aircraft include:
- A Lockheed P-38L Lightning replica. (The prototype XP-38 first flew on January 27, 1939 from March Field.)
- A Boeing B-29A Superfortess Flagship 500 that flew 11 combat missions during World War II.
- A Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter.
- A Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. This aircraft appeared in the movie Space Cowboys (2000).
- A Boeing GB-52D Stratofortress that flew 175 combat missions in the Vietnam War.
- A Northrop YA-9A, designed to the same requirements as the A-10 Warthog.
- A Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (44-6393), CP-627, CP-891
- Three F-4 Phantoms
- An F-14 Tomcat
- A Aichi D3A Val Dive Bomber
- An F-86 Sabre
- A MiG-15
- A MiG-21
- A MiG-23
- An F-100 Super Sabre
These are only a few of the aircraft shown on display there. Inside the actual museum are, among others:
- Alight Simulator
- A movie played every so often
- An AT-6 Texan
- Replicas of a German 30mm cannon and jet engines
- Missile and bomb cross-sections
 B-29A Superfortress Flagship 500. |
 B-29A Superfortress Flagship 500. |
 The engines of the KC-97. |
 The nose of the B-47. |
 The engines of the C-141. |
[edit] War Dog Memorial
There is a memorial to War dogs at MAFB.[1]
[edit] External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
- War Dog Memorial by A. Thomas Schomberg
- Official website
- March Field Air Museum is at coordinates Coordinates:
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