Hiller Aviation Museum

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The Hiller Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located at the San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, California, focused on Northern California aviation history, Hiller Aircraft and helicopter history.

History

Background

As early as the late 1960s, Stanley Hiller began collecting aircraft at a warehouse in Redwood City, California.<ref name="Larsen">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="History">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> By 1986, it displayed 15 aircraft and set a goal of a acquiring a total of 28 of Hiller's designs.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Eight years later it had surpassed this and the Hiller Museum of Northern California Aviation Heritage included over 40 aircraft.<ref name="Mitchell">Template:Cite news</ref>

Move to San Carlos

However, public access was limited.<ref name="History" /> So, funded by a trust established by Hiller, the museum announced a proposal to acquire a Template:Convert building at the San Carlos Airport and expand it to Template:Convert facility.<ref name="Mitchell" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A lease for the property was approved in March 1996 and ground was broken in October.<ref name="Clifford">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Larsen" /> The Template:Convert Hiller Aviation Museum opened on 5 June 1998.<ref name="Clifford" /><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

The Boeing 2707 mockup, which had been on display at the museum since it opened, moved back to Seattle in 2013 where it is undergoing restoration at the Museum of Flight.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Facilities

The Michael King Smith Research Library at the museum has a collection of approximately 5,400 books.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Exhibits

Exhibits at the museum include flight simulators, a retired British Airways 747 to explore, and an indoor drone plex. There are also displays about early aviation, California pioneers, air racing, women in aviation, the mechanics of flight, urban air mobility and weather.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

One of the museum's most popular attractions is the forward fuselage and flight deck of a retired British Airways Boeing 747-100, painted in Flying Tigers colors, open for public access via staircase.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Collection

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Aircraft

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  • Fairchild Hiller FH-1100<ref name="aircraft" />
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  • Hiller YH-32 Hornet<ref name="aircraft" />
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  • Hollmann HA-2M Sportster<ref name="aircraft" />
  • Irvine Aerocycloid – replica<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Ground vehicles

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Simulators

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  • Curtiss Wright P-2<ref name="aircraft" />
  • Del Mar DHT-2<ref name="aircraft" />
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  • McDonnell Douglas A-4M Skyhawk cockpit simulator<ref name="aircraft" />

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Events

The museum hosts the Biggest Little Air Show, an annual airshow consisting of radio-control model aircraft ending with a piloted aerobatic demonstration.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> It also holds an annual Airport Runway Run.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

This museum sponsored Vertical Challenge, an annual all-helicopter airshow from 2000-2010, and a final one in 2012.Template:Citation needed In 2011 and 2016 an aviation festival event called Heli-Fest was held instead.Template:Citation needed

Programs

This museum offers two Scouts BSA Merit Badge programs, the Aviation Merit Badge and the Weather Merit Badge.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

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