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Aerospace Museum of California
	A view of the entry to the Aerospace Museum of California.
Established	1986 (as the McClellan Aviation Museum)
Location	North Highlands, California, United States
Coordinates	38°40′30″N 121°23′28″W / 38.675099°N 121.391029°W
Type	Private: aerospace
Website	aerospaceca.org

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The Aerospace Museum of California is an aviatizon museum located in North Highlands, California on the grounds of the former McClellan Air Force Base. It features displays of authentic military and civilian aircraft as well as space vehicle replicas. It preserves the history and mission of this former base as well as those of neighboring bases like Beale (active) and Mather (closed) Air Force Bases. McClellan Air Force Base closed in 2001 and became McClellan Airfield, a civil aviation airport.

History

The museum was originally established as the McClellan Aviation Museum in 1986. It was chartered by the National Museum of the United States Air Force. In 2001 it incorporated as a non-profit organization. In 2005 its name was changed to the Aerospace Museum of California. In 2004 the museum moved to 3200 Freedom Park Drive, McClellan Park and in February 2007 opened its new 35,000-square-foot (3,300 m²) Hardie Setzer Pavilion enabling some of the aircraft to be displayed indoors.

Exhibits

The museum has over 40 aircraft in its collection from a fully restored Fairchild PT-19 to one of the last Grumman F-14D Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy service in 2006. In addition to aircraft, the collection includes many other historic artifacts relating to Sacramento's aerospace heritage. It also houses an extensive collection of historic aircraft engines. These include examples ranging from a World War I-era Gnome and Rhone rotary piston engines, large radial piston engines, and jet engines. Jet engines normally in the exhibit hall are GE I-16 (1940, Whittle design), J-57 #35 (1952), and J-58 “turbo-ramjet”, used on the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spyplane. The museum features an art gallery containing more than 50 original works, many from the Air Force Art Collection and the United States Coast Guard Art Collection.^[1]

Engines on Display

Hall-Scott A-7
Curtiss OX-5
Hispano-Suiza 8
Le Rhône 9C
Gnome Monosoupape 9N
Hall-Scott A-7
Lawrance A-3
Wright R-790 Whirlwind
Wright R-795-11 (J-6) Whirlwind
Henderson 4, motorcycle engine conversion
Aeronca E-113
Franklin O-150 (4AC-150)
Jacobs R-755
Allison V-3420
Allison V-1710-51
Westinghouse J34
General Electric J31
Pratt & Whitney J57 (JT3C)
Bristol Centaurus mk. 175
Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp
2 each Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major one complete, one cutaway

Aircraft on Display

A FedEx Express Boeing 727 is seen on display at the Aerospace Museum of California.

A Lockheed F-104B Starfighter is seen at the Aerospace Museum of California

Flight Zone

The Aerospace Museum of California has 10 a state of the art, STEM, realistic flight simulators. Where you can learn to fly under the instruction of experienced volunteer flight instructors.