 The museum in October 2009 | |
  Location within Pennsylvania | |
| Established | 1980s |
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| Location | Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Coordinates | 41°08′03″N77°25′37″W / 41.134030°N 77.426916°W |
| Type | Aviation museum |
| Founder |
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| President | Ronald W. Dremel [1] |
| Curator | Dr. Ira Masemore [2] |
| Website | pipermuseum |
The Piper Aviation Museum is an aviation museum at the William T. Piper Memorial Airport in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. It is focused on the history of the Piper Aircraft Corporation.
Originally founded in the 1980s as a part of the Lock Haven Heisey Museum, for the first ten years the museum existed in the back of a tractor trailer. [3] The museum purchased the former Piper Aircraft engineering building in late 1996. [4]
One of the two first light aircraft to circumnavigate the globe, a PA-12 named The City of Angels, was donated in mid-2006 by the museum's historian, Harry P. Mutter. [5]
The museum opened additional exhibit space in 2022. [6] The museum acquired a J3C and PA-23 in 2024 and the sole PA-47 in 2025. [7] [8] [9]
Exhibits at the museum include a display about the former Piper head of styling, Dick Clark and a flight simulator made from a PA-38. [10] [11] A historical marker is also located in front of the museum. [12]
