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The United States Air Force maintains a number of Field Museums and Heritage Centers.[1]

Current museums

• National Museum of the United States Air Force – Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio
• Air Force Armament Museum – Eglin AFB, near Valparaiso, Florida
• Air Force Flight Test Center Museum – Edwards AFB, near North Edwards and Rosamond, California
• Air Force Space and Missile Museum – Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, north of Patrick Space Force Base and Cocoa Beach, Florida
• Air Mobility Command Museum – Dover AFB, near Dover, Delaware
• Barksdale Global Power Museum – Barksdale AFB, near Bossier City, Louisiana
• Enlisted Heritage Research Institute – Maxwell AFB, Alabama
• Hill Aerospace Museum – northwest of Hill AFB, near Ogden, Utah
• Malmstrom Museum – Malmstrom AFB, Montana
• McChord Air Museum – McChord AFB, near Tacoma, Washington
• Museum of Aviation – near Robins AFB, Warner Robins, Georgia
• Peterson Air and Space Museum – Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Sheppard AFB Heritage Center – Sheppard AFB, Texas
• South Dakota Air and Space Museum – Box Elder, South Dakota (outside the main gate of Ellsworth AFB)
• Thunderbirds Museum – Nellis AFB, near Las Vegas, Nevada
• Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum – Travis AFB, near Fairfield, California
• USAF Airman Heritage Museum – Lackland AFB, Texas
• Warren ICBM and Heritage Museum – F.E. Warren AFB, near Cheyenne, Wyoming

Closed museums

• Air Force Rescue Memorial Museum – Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico (closed January 1990)[2]
• Beale Air Force Base Museum – Beale Air Force Base, east of Marysville, California (closed in February 1995)[3]
• Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Museum – Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona (closed 1949)[4]
• Fairchild Heritage Museum – Fairchild Air Force Base, Spokane, Washington (closed 2002)[5][6][lower-alpha 1]
• Lowry Heritage Museum – Lowry Air Force Base, Denver, Colorado[8][9][lower-alpha 2]
• Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine – Brooks City-Base, San Antonio, Texas (closed in 2011)
• Plattsburgh Air Force Base Museum – Plattsburgh Air Force Base, Plattsburgh, New York (closed in 1995)[10]
• Randolph Air Force Base Museum – Randolph Air Force Base, Universal City, Texas (closed in 1958)[11]
• Silver Wings Aviation Museum – Mather Air Force Base, near Sacramento, California[12][13][14]
• USAF Security Forces Museum – Lackland AFB, next to San Antonio, Texas (closed in August 2014)[15]

Former museums

These museums were once part of the Air Force museum system, but have since become private:

• Aerospace Museum of California[16]
• Castle Air Museum[17][18][19]
• Grissom Air Museum[20]
• March Field Air Museum[21]
• Minnesota Air National Guard Museum^{[citation needed]}
• Selfridge Military Air Museum^{[citation needed]}
• Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum[22]

See also

• National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
• Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum[lower-alpha 3]
• Pima Air & Space Museum

References

Footnotes

Notes

External links

• Air Force Museums and their Civilian Counterparts: Improving Both Sides of the Challenge Coin
• Department of the Air Force Heritage Program
• Museums and Money
• The History of the Air Force History and Museums Program

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