Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum

Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum

The Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum is located in Anchorage, Alaska. Its mission is to preserve, display, and honor Alaska's aviation heritage, by preserving and displaying historic aircraft, artifacts, and memorabilia, and to foster public interest in aviation and its history. The museum has several aircraft on display, a restoration hangar, flight simulators, two theatres, and a Hall of Fame. It provides an emphasis on historic aircraft, aviation artifacts, and memorabilia that contributed to the development and progress of aviation in Alaska. [citation | title= Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum: About | publisher=ARTINFO | year=2008 | url= http://www.artinfo.com/galleryguide/21050/7568/about/alaska-aviation-heritage-museum-anchorage/ | accessdate=2008-07-24 ]

Hall of Fame

* 2007: Russel Merrill
* 2006: Merle "Mudhole" Smith
* 2005: Robert Campbell Reeve
* 2004: Bob Ellis
* 2003: Carl Ben Eielson
* 2002: Joe Crosson
* 2001: Ray Petersen
* 2000: Noel Wien

References

See also

* History of aviation in Alaska

External Links

[http://www.alaskaairmuseum.org Official Website]


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