Aviation Museum of New Hampshire

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Aviation Museum of New Hampshire
Location
Membership
$35.00
Executive Director
Jeff Rapsis
Assistant Director
Leah Dearborn
Main organ
The Aeronaut
Parent organization
New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society
Website www.nhahs.org

The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire is a historical museum operated by the New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society, a non-profit group that preserves the history of flight in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The organization's goal is to preserve New Hampshire aviation history through a series of dynamic and hands-on exhibits and programs, as the museum's website states.

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The museum exists alongside a runway at Manchester–Boston Regional Airport that parallels a portion of the now-defunct Manchester and Lawrence Railroad. It is housed in the 1937 terminal and control tower that was moved to the east side of the airport at 27 Navigator Road in Londonderry, New Hampshire. [1] [2] The museum building was enlarged in 2011.

Notable aviators from New Hampshire

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References

  1. "The New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society Welcomes You!". NH Aviation Historic Society. 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  2. Klein, Christopher (February 19, 2012). "At the Aviation Museum of N.H., the state's history of flight". The Boston Globe . Retrieved March 22, 2015.

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