Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor

      Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor
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      Location Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States
      Type Aviation museum
      Director Ken DeHoff
      Curator Burl Burlingame
      Website www.PacificAviationMuseum.org

      The Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor is located on Ford Island, located in the middle of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.[1]

      A6M2 Zero painted as one of the Pearl Harbor attackers

      The museum site occupies 16 acres (65,000 m2) of the 440-acre (1.8 km2) island. It includes three historic hangars and an air traffic control tower. The collection expanded to 30 aircraft in 2012 with the addition of a Douglas A-3 Skywarrior used by Raytheon for testing radar sets.[2]

      F4F-3 Wildcat on display representing Cactus Air during the Battle of Guadalcanal
      The air traffic control tower of the former Naval Air Station Ford Island.

      References

      1. ^ Roland Gilmore (photo by Gerlinde Gorla). "Flight Plan". Hana Hou! Vol. 10, No. 1, February/March 2007. 
      2. ^ "Skywarrior makes final landing at Honolulu museum". Retrieved 3 May 2012. 
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