Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum, located at Creve Coeur Airport in Maryland Heights, Missouri, is a museum dedicated to restoring and preserving historical aircraft. The airplanes in the collection are all fabric-covered, and most are biplanes from the inter-war years (the "Golden age of flight"). The museum's volunteers maintain most of these aircraft in full working order and this is one of the largest collections of flying classic aircraft in America.^[1]

Contents 1 Collection 2 See also 3 Gallery 4 Other large collections of flying historic aircraft 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Collection

The museum collection concentrates on civil aircraft from the inter-war years, with most of the aircraft originating from 1916 to 1946.^[2] There are several WACO biplanes, with the oldest of these types being a WACO 10, which was built in 1938.^[3] The oldest airplane on display is a Standard J-1 that was built in 1917 and was used in the movie The Rocketeer.

Aircraft rides are available at the museum by request, in either a Stearman WWII biplane trainer or in a North American SNJ-5.^[4]

[edit] See also

• Vintage warbird restoration
• Experimental Aircraft Association
• Aviation archaeology

[edit] Gallery

WACO UBF-2 biplane.	Flagg biplane.	WACO UBF-2 biplane.	Curtiss Travel Air 16E.
Shavrov Sh-2 seaplane.	Standard J-1.	Ryan PT-22 STA Ranger.	WACO QF-2 biplane.

[edit] Other large collections of flying historic aircraft

• Commemorative Air Force‎, in Midland, Texas.
• Battle of Britain Memorial Flight at RAF Coningsby, UK.
• Shuttleworth Collection at Old Warden near Biggleswade in Bedfordshire, UK.
• Fantasy of Flight, in Polk City, Florida.
• Champlin Fighter Collection at the Seattle Museum of Flight.
• The Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas.
• The Yankee Air Museum in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
• EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

[edit] References

v • d • e List of museums in Greater St. Louis National Museum of Westward Expansion State Cahokia Mounds • Mastodon State Historic Site Municipal St. Louis Art Museum Private City Museum • Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis * Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum • International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame • Laumeier Sculpture Park • Missouri History Museum • Museum of Transportation • The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts • St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum • St. Louis Science Center

[edit] External links

• Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum - Museum website
• Location - 38.72483° N 90.50943° W
• Very high resolution panoramic images: Hangar 1, Hangar 2, Hangar 3
• Don Parsons Restoration Air & Space Magazine, March 01, 2007
• Linda Shiner People and Planes of Creve Coeur Air & Space Magazine, July 01, 2005