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  Location within California | |
| Established | 1979 |
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| Location | Riverside County, near Moreno Valley, California |
| Coordinates | 33°53′02″N117°16′00″W / 33.883848°N 117.266682°W |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Founder | Lt. Gen. James E. Mullins [1] |
| Curator | Jeff Houlihan |
| Website | www |
The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, located at March Air Reserve Base.
The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. One of the first exhibits at the museum was a collection of art painted by Hazel Olson. [1] [2] It moved to a new location at the base's former commissary, where it reopened to the public in 1981. That same year, a B-29 was flown to the museum. [3] The museum moved again in 1993 to its current location west of the runway along Interstate 215. Originally operated by the Air Force, the museum's operation was transferred to a nonprofit organization in 1996. [4]
The museum's 120th aircraft, an F-16, was added to the collection on 3 October 2025. [5]
In October 2025, the president, Jamil Dada, fired the museum's collections manager, archivist and a restoration assistant. The director of collections and security supervisor subsequently resigned in protest. Dada claimed that the museum was having financial difficulties. This was disputed by the former director of collections, who stated that the museum had been solvent as of 2023. [6]
Indoor displays include a timeline of March Field, a gallery about the Space Race, a display about strategic reconnaissance and a recreation of a World War II-era mural. [7] [8]
The March Field Air Museum was featured on an episode of Ghost Adventures in 2018. The team of paranormal investigators investigated paranormal claims of artifacts being thrown out of their glass cases by an unseen force while in the Main Hangar, voices of children who died with their mother from the flu when they lived on the property before the Restoration Hangar was built, and sounds of soldiers preparing for battle while in the Lockheed C-141 Starlifter display aircraft. [117]
