Aviation Museum of New Hampshire
Location
Membership
$35.00
Executive Director
Jeff Rapsis
Assistant Director
Leah Dearborn
Main organ
The Aeronaut
Parent organization
New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society
Websitewww.nhahs.org

The Aviation Museum of New Hampshire is a historical museum operated by the New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society, a non-profit group that preserves the history of flight in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The organization's goal is to preserve New Hampshire aviation history through a series of dynamic and hands-on exhibits and programs, as the museum's website states. The museum operates in the 1937 Manchester Airport terminal building. The museum expanded in 2011.

The museum offers an accredited aviation education class for New Hampshire high school students. The course has two goals, to help prepare students for college, and to offer a career-based program. The course offers six modules, and is based on the "Virtual Skies" NASA curriculum. This course is currently entirely funded by the museum through grants and donations. The museum also offers a school outreach program geared towards NH and MA students in grades K-8. The presentation is one hour, and includes video, interactive demonstrations, and hands-on paper airplane building and flying.

Hours of operation are Friday and Saturday, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. and Sundays 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The museum exists alongside a runway at Manchester–Boston Regional Airport that parallels a portion of the now-defunct Manchester and Lawrence Railroad. It is housed in the 1937 terminal and control tower that was moved to the east side of the airport at 27 Navigator Road in Londonderry, New Hampshire.[1][2][3]

Notable aviators from New Hampshire

References

  1. ↑ "The New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society Welcomes You!". NH Aviation Historic Society. 2013. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Brooks, David (April 9, 2014). "Good Excuse to visit the Nashua Aviation Museum". Nashua Telegraph. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  3. ↑ Klein, Christopher (February 19, 2012). "At the Aviation Museum of N.H., the state's history of flight". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 22, 2015.

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