Mid-Atlantic Air Museum

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Mid-Atlantic Air Museum
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An aerial view of the museum
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Location in Pennsylvania
Established1980
Location Reading, Pennsylvania
Coordinates 40°22′55″N75°58′01″W / 40.382°N 75.967°W / 40.382; -75.967
Type Aviation museum
FounderRussell A. & Eugene Strine
DirectorEugene Strine
PresidentRussell A. Strine
Website http://www.maam.org
Vintage Soviet Yak-9 on takeoff at the 2002 MAAM WWII Weekend Air Show. YaK-9 MAAM.jpg
Vintage Soviet Yak-9 on takeoff at the 2002 MAAM WWII Weekend Air Show.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM) is an aviation museum and aircraft restoration facility located at Reading Regional Airport in Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum, founded by Russ Strine, the current President, collects and actively restores historic war planes and classic airliners as well as rare civilian and military aircraft. Many of the museum's historic aircraft are often seen on the airshow circuit.

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Overview

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum has hosted the “World War II Weekend Air Show” annually since 1990. The World War II Weekend is generally scheduled to coincide with 6 June, with an attendance approaching 100,000 people. [1]

The museum offers rides in their vintage North American SNJ (Navy version of the AT-6 “Texan” World War II military trainer) and in a Stearman Biplane on the second Saturday of the month from May through October excluding the month of June. [2]

It has also embarked on an ambitious project to restore its Northrop P-61B Black Widow, recovered from New Guinea in 1989, to flying condition. [3]

Mid Atlantic Air Museum also sells aircraft for MS Flight Simulator of some of their restored aircraft such as the B-25, C-47 and TBM Avenger.

In 2014, the museum acquired 10 t-hangars from a company called Airlife Hangars. [4]

In 2017, the construction of a new 6,400 sq ft (590 m2) hangar and 3,200 sq ft (300 m2) storage building was approved and work began the following year. [5] [6]

Aircraft on display

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References

  1. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "MID-ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM'S WORLD WAR II WEEKEND". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  2. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "Take a Flight Into History". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  3. 1 2 Rambow, Bill. "P-61B 'BLACK WIDOW' RECOVERY AND RESTORATION PROJECT". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  4. ↑ Shuey, Karen (22 February 2019). "Rising Rates at the Reading Regional Airport Anger Some Tenants". Reading Eagle. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  5. ↑ Lacis, Valdis I. (18 January 2017). "Reading Regional Airport Authority to Support Construction of New Hangar, Storage Facility". Reading Eagle. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  6. ↑ Lacis, Valdis I. (19 August 2021). "Construction on new hangar at Mid-Altantic Air Museum moving along". Reading Eagle. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 "AIRCRAFT OF THE MID-ATLANTIC AIR MUSEUM". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 "CURRENT RESTORATION PROJECTS". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  9. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "HEATH LNA-40 "PARASOL"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "NAVAL AIRCRAFT FACTORY N3N-3 "YELLOW PERIL"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  11. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "BOEING/STEARMAN N2S "KAYDET"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  12. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "CONSOLIDATED VULTEE BT-13A / SNV 1 "VALIANT"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  13. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "B-25J MITCHELL 'BRIEFING TIME'". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  14. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "NORTH AMERICAN SNJ-4 "TEXAN"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  15. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "DOUGLAS R4D-6 "SKYTRAIN"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  16. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "GRUMMAN EASTERN AIRCRAFT TBM-3 "AVENGER"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  17. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "ERCO/SANDERS 415-G "ERCOUPE"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  18. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "MARTIN 4-0-4 EASTERN AIRLINES "SILVER FALCON"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Archived from the original on 11 December 2016. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  19. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "PIPER L-21B "SUPER CUB"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  20. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "LOCKHEED P2V-7 (SP2-H) "NEPTUNE"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  21. ↑ "SIKORSKY HH-52A "SEAGUARD"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  22. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "CUSTER CC-W-5 "CHANNEL WING"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  23. ↑ Rambow, Bill. "SPRATT 108 "CONTROL WING"". Mid-Atlantic Air Museum. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
  24. ↑ Mitchell, Dorian (13 July 2016). "Harris' vintage aircraft is museum-bound". Kent County News. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  25. ↑ Urban, Mike (31 May 2021). "Plane featured in World War II movie donated to Mid-Atlantic Air Museum in Berks". Reading Eagle. Retrieved 2 June 2023.

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