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Plan Your Visit
Visitors to Warner Robins will discover the "Crown Jewel" of Middle Georgia -- the Museum of Aviation, now the second largest museum in the United States Air Force. Displaying 93 aircraft and hundreds of exhibits on a beautiful 51 acre site, the museum has grown into a significant exhibit, education and cultural center drawing more than 500,000 visitors a year.
The Museum is comprised of four main buildings :
EAGLE BUILDING
The Eagle building, shaped like the U.S. Forces "Stars and Bar" insignia, houses exhibits, aircraft, archives and offices. An F-15 Eagle and two World War II aircraft (PT-17 Kaydet and TG-4 Glider) are suspended in the center rotunda. The Gift Shop contains an outstanding selection of museum souvenirs, everything from flight suits and jewelry to model airplanes.
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F-15 Eagle
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F-84E Thunderjet
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P-40N Warhawk
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P-51 Mustang
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50th Anniversary of World War II, Korea - The Forgotten War
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483rd Bomb Group and a 60-foot-long-replica profile of a B-17 "Flying Fortress" on a bombing mission over Europe
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14th Air Force "Flying Tigers"
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Georgia Aviation Hall of Fame
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Epps 1912 Monoplane (replica)
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1896 Chanute Glider (replica)
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Electronic Warfare Systems and RF-4 simulator
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"God Is My Co-Pilot: The Robert L. Scott, Jr. Story", Georgia's own World War II flying ace, Brigadier General Robert L. Scott, Jr.
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China-Burma-India Hump Pilots
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Model Airplane Display
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Victory Café
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Observation Deck
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CENTURY OF FLIGHT HANGAR
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Along with housing the Museum of Aviation's award-winning education programs, this 65,000 square foot hangar contains an interactive theater and exhibit hall, as well as several restored aircraft. |
Exhibit highlights: |
We The People" Theater and Exhibit Hall features an audio-visual presentation twice an hour which covers the U.S. constitutional provision for the "common defense" of our nation, the separation of powers in government, how a bill becomes a law, and seven outstanding Georgia legislators, including Senator Sam Nunn and President Jimmy Carter. |
- SR-71 "Blackbird"
- U-2 "Dragon Lady"
- B-25J "Mitchell"
- B-29 "Superfortress"
- HH-53 "Jolly Green"
- F-86 Super Sabre
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Hangar One |
This hangar features beautifully restored aircraft (including helicopters and trainers), missiles and engines.
- An F-105 simulator cockpit
- "America's Black Eagles - The Tuskegee Pioneers . . . and Beyond," traces the experiences and achievements of black aviators from the early 1920s to today's senior black leaders in the U.S. Air Force, including Lt. Gen. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. (first black general in the U.S. Air Force) and Gen. Daniel "Chappie" James, Jr. (first black four-star general). "America's Black Eagles" features dioramas of a barracks scene and Link trainer classroom, a Tuskegee Airmen combat briefing in Italy, a hangar with a BT-13 trainer aircraft, and an F-4 Phantom in Vietnam. An interactive exhibit enables visitors to explore several programs: Flight School, Black Wings Airport, and test their flight skills using a computer flight simulation aboard a Cessna aircraft.
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