Port Townsend Aero Museum is an

aviation museum An aviation museum, air museum, or air and space museum is a museum exhibiting the history and cultural artifacts, artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual, replica or accurate reproduction aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, Ph ...

located at

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History

The museum was founded in 2001 by Jerry and Peggy Thoutte with six flyable aircraft. The museum was initially located in a number of hangars at the airport, but moved into a new building in 2008. The Thouttes retired from daily operations in 2016 and Michael Payne took over as director. The museum acquired eight aircraft from the North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum when the latter closed in 2018. On April 28, 2019, a PT-17 Stearman biplane that belonged to the museum made an emergency landing on a beach at

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after an in-flight engine failure. The forced landing onto the narrow sloping beach resulted in significant damage to the airframe, but caused only minor injuries for the pilot and passenger. Construction on a expansion of the museum was in progress in 2022.

Aircraft on display

* Aeronca C-3B Master *

Aeronca 7AC Champion The Aeronca Model 7 Champion, commonly known as the "Champ", or "Airknocker",Bellanca Aircraft Corp, " d: "The Champ only $4,995"" ''Flying Annual & Pilots' Guide,'' 1971 ed., pp.36–37 iff-Davis NY is a single-engine light airplane with a ...

Aeronca L-3 The Aeronca L-3 group of observation and liaison aircraft were used by the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. The L-3 series were adapted from Aeronca's pre-war Aeronca 50 Chief, Tandem Trainer and Chief models. Design and developme ...

* Beechcraft C17B Staggerwing * Boeing P-12C – Replica *

Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross The Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross is an American high-wing, strut-braced, open cockpit, pod-and-boom glider that was designed by Hawley Bowlus and introduced in 1938.Said, Bob: ''1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine'', pages 6-7. Soarin ...

* CallAir A-2 *

Cessna 140 The Cessna 120, 140, and 140A, are single-engine, two-seat, conventional landing gear (tailwheel), light general aviation aircraft that were first produced in 1946, immediately following the end of World War II. Production ended in 1951, and ...

* Corben Baby Ace *

Curtiss-Wright Junior The Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior, originally named the Curtiss-Robertson CR-1 Skeeter is a light sports aircraft produced in the United States in the 1930s. It had been intended to sell it for the price of a mid-range automobile. The Junior had tw ...

de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk The de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk (or Chippie) is a tandem, two-seat, single-engined primary trainer aircraft designed and developed by Canadian aircraft manufacturer de Havilland Canada. It was developed shortly after the Second World Wa ...

* Dormoy Bathtub * Fairchild 22 C7B * Fairchild 24W40 * Fairchild M62 – Painted as a PT-19B *

Howard DGA-4 The Howard DGA-4 a.k.a. Mike, and DGA-5 a.k.a. Ike and "Miss Chevrolet" was the next in a series of racers from Ben Howard. He built two examples, "Mike" and "Ike", each with a different landing gear design. Design and development In 1932 work ...

– Replica * Laister-Kauffman LK-10A * Mooney M-18LA Mite *

Pietenpol Sky Scout The Pietenpol Sky Scout is a parasol wing homebuilt aircraft designed by Bernard Pietenpol. Development The Sky Scout was a lower-cost follow-on to the Pietenpol's first homebuilt design, the Pietenpol Air Camper, using a lower-cost Ford Model T ...

* Piper J3C-65 Cub * Rose Parrakeet * Schleicher Ka 6E * Stinson SM-8A Junior *

Taylorcraft B The Taylorcraft B is an American light, single-engine, high-wing general aviation monoplane, with two seats in side-by-side configuration, that was built by the Taylorcraft Aircraft, Taylorcraft Aviation Corporation of Alliance, Ohio.The Pitt ...

* Taylorcraft BC-12-D *

Travel Air 2000 The Travel Air 2000 is an open-cockpit biplane aircraft produced in the United States in the late 1920s by the Travel Air, Travel Air Manufacturing Company. During the period from 1924–1929, Travel Air produced more aircraft than any othe ...

References

* https://web.archive.org/web/20190109224333/http://www.ptaeromuseum.com/collection_aircraft.html

External links

Official website
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