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Tillamook Air Museum

97141 Tillamook, OR, United States of America (USA) (Oregon )

Address 6030 Hangar Rd
 
 
Floor area unfortunately not known yet  
 
Museum typ Exhibition
Air and Space (aviation, spaceflight etc.)
  • Fire Brigade
  • Model Ships
  • Trucks / Lorries
  • Model Aircraft and Aviation
  • Combustion engines/generators/pumps
  • Electric motors/generators/pumps
  • Railway
  • Military Aerospace
  • Buildings- & Landscape Models


Opening times
Tuesday-Sunday: 10:00am - 5:00pm

Admission
Status from 11/2017
Adults: $9.75; Seniors: $8.75; Military: $7.75;
Youth (7-16 years): $6.50; Child (1-6 years): $2.75

Contact
Tel.:+1-503-842-1130  eMail:info tillamookair.com  

Homepage www.tillamookair.com

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Location / Directions
N45.420391° W123.804835°N45°25.22346' W123°48.29010'N45°25'13.4076" W123°48'17.4060"

Tillamook is located on the southeast end of Tillamook Bay on the Pacific Ocean.

Parking is available for Automobiles, Motorcycles, Buses, and aircraft

Description

Hangar B

In 1942, the U.S. Navy began construction of 17 wooden hangars to house K-class airships that would be used for anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort. Two of these hangars were built at Naval Air Station Tilllamook, which was commissioned in December 1942 to serve the Oregon-Washington-California coastal areas.

Length: 1,072 feet 
Height : 192 feet (over 15 stories)
Width: 296 feet
Doors: 120 feet high. 6 sections each weighing 30 tons. 220 foot wide opening Sections roll on railroad tracks.
Area: Over 7 acres (you could play 6 football games at once)
Catwalks: 2 catwalks, each 137 feet above the hangar deck

Aircraft

Aerospacelines Mini-Guppy
Bell TH-57 Hellicopter
Cessna 180F Skywagon
Chris-Teena Mini-Coupe
Douglas A4-B Skyhawk (on Highway 101)
Erco Ercoupe 415-C
Fairchild Gk-1
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
Kaman HTK-1 (Helicopter)
Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair ll
Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17/Lim 6
Nieuport 11 (Replica)
Nord 1101 Noralpha
Quickie (homebuilt aircraft hanging above Café)
Learjet 24
Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17F/Lim5
A-26C Invader
Fouga-CM 170 Magister
BAC Jet Provost Mk. 3A
C-27A Spartan
Bellanca 14-13 Cruisair Senior
Fisher Flying Products British Tiger Moth
Rutan Model 61 Long E-Z
Brown Starlite Homebuilt
Cvjetkovic CA-65 Skyfly Homebuilt

Vehicles

1944 Seagrave Ladder Truck (Fire Truck)
1938 Ford/Western States Fire Engine
1936 American LaFrance Ladder Truck (Fire Truck)
1944 Willy's Jeep
1940 International Boom Truck
1931 Ford AA Truck
1958 Pirsch Fire Truck

Trains

1917 Heisler locomotive

Engine Room

Experience first hand, engines from the glory days of aviation. We have engines ranging from the 1920s through the 1950s. Just another example of how the Tillamook Air Museum is filled with history housing history.

Helium Room

Frozen in time, the Helium Room is a hat tip to the Greatest Generation. Learn about the tools and machines that were used to deliver helium to the airships and experience real wartime equipment. The world was a very different place during the Second World War. This is your chance to put yourself in a different era.

Exhibit Hall

Explore rare wartime and aviation themed artifacts, including authentic WWII medals and gear. The Tillamook Air Museum has photos, first hand documentations and uniforms from the Second World War and beyond.


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