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Olympic Flight Museum
The Olympic Flight Museum is an aviation museum at the Olympia Airport in Olympia, Washington, USA. The museum has more than 10 vintage planes and helicopters on display, most of which are in airworthy condition. The museum also hosts the annual Olympic Air Show, featuring a selection of heritage and current military aircraft demonstrations. History The museum was founded in 1998. In 2003, the museum started hosting an annual airshow called the "Gathering of Warbirds". Aircraft on display Fixed wing * Aero L-29 Delfín * Aero L-39 Albatros, Aero L-39ZO Albatros * Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet * English Electric Lightning * Vought F4U Corsair, Goodyear FG-1D Corsair * Mitsubishi A6M Zero (replica) * North American P-51D Mustang Helicopters * Bell AH-1 Cobra * Bell UH-1 Iroquois, Bell HH-1K Iroquois * Bell UH-1H Iroquois * Hughes OH-6 Cayuse * Kaman HH-43 Huskie References External links Olympic Flight Museum Aerospace museums in Washington (state) Museums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olympia, Washington
Olympia is the capital of the U.S. state of Washington and the county seat and largest city of Thurston County. It is southwest of the state's most populous city, Seattle, and is a cultural center of the southern Puget Sound region. European settlers claimed the area in 1846, with the Treaty of Medicine Creek initiated in 1854, followed by the Treaty of Olympia in 1856. Olympia was incorporated as a town on January 28, 1859, and as a city in 1882. It had a population of 55,605 at the time of the 2020 census, making it the state's 23rd-largest city. Olympia borders Lacey to the east and Tumwater to the south. History The site of Olympia had been home to Lushootseed-speaking peoples known as the Steh-Chass (or Stehchass, later part of the post-treaty Squaxin Island Tribe) for thousands of years. Other Native Americans regularly visited the head of Budd Inlet and the Steh-Chass, including the other ancestor tribes of the Squaxin, as well as the Nisqually, Puyallup, C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
