Went there on a road trip with family about years ago, it was an absolutely incredible experience, and Tillamook is so green and beautiful! The Tillamook Cheese plant has a great tour too.
As a resident within the Portland Metro area, I went to this museum in the early nineties, very much a 'hands on' place at that time, no velvet ropes whatsoever. You could poke your head in a PBY, twist the throttle on an Allison V12 on a stand, poke your fingers down the exhaust ports. The building itself is immense inside...while I was there, a TBM observer type circled overhead, landed & taxied right up to the opened end...35 ft. away, no "officials", no cordoned off areas, very self-policed, self-reason...
There talking about shutting it down ……my parents where in the fire department when hanger A burnt ,you could see the fire for miles and large chunks fell from the sky in a 10 mile radius if not more …I wish there was a organization that could help save it … it needs to be a outside organization with stick too it ness that can handle donations money diligently and efficiently..our children and grandchildren need too see things like this so those who sacrificed so much are remembered….the folks running it are fantastic and have kept a real historic gem alive and need to be praised…
Was there today for the first time sadly like 5 min before close (Winter hours they close at 4pm) but they let us go peak around for a min and WOW that hangar is awesome.
excellent video. I didn't know much of the info you presented. I live about 110 miles away from Tillamook. The museum is one of those things I always mean to visit, but somehow never do.
My cousin started the Tillamook Air Museum, he died flying one of the museums aircraft. I have tried to find out more information but no one will offer any. I do have the documents from the City of Tillamook about him and the museum.
Very interesting. I was a Marine working out of MCAS Santa Ana, CA then renamed MCAS Tustin, CA. We had two hangars identical to this one. Hangar 1 and Hangar 2. The air station has been closed but the hangars are still there. They were designated National Historic Landmarks so they cannot be destroyed, for now. The base was nicknamed LTA, which means Lighter Than Air because of the U.S. Navy blimps that were hangared there during World War Two.
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Visiting the air museum was truly a highlight of a trip up the Oregon coast last summer. I would love to visit again.
Went there on a road trip with family about years ago, it was an absolutely incredible experience, and Tillamook is so green and beautiful! The Tillamook Cheese plant has a great tour too.
As a resident within the Portland Metro area, I went to this museum in the early nineties, very much a 'hands on' place at that time, no velvet ropes whatsoever. You could poke your head in a PBY, twist the throttle on an Allison V12 on a stand, poke your fingers down the exhaust ports. The building itself is immense inside...while I was there, a TBM observer type circled overhead, landed & taxied right up to the opened end...35 ft. away, no "officials", no cordoned off areas, very self-policed, self-reason...
There talking about shutting it down ……my parents where in the fire department when hanger A burnt ,you could see the fire for miles and large chunks fell from the sky in a 10 mile radius if not more …I wish there was a organization that could help save it … it needs to be a outside organization with stick too it ness that can handle donations money diligently and efficiently..our children and grandchildren need too see things like this so those who sacrificed so much are remembered….the folks running it are fantastic and have kept a real historic gem alive and need to be praised…
Was there today for the first time sadly like 5 min before close (Winter hours they close at 4pm) but they let us go peak around for a min and WOW that hangar is awesome.
I've been to this museum. Well worth the time spent here. The architecture is amazing.
excellent video. I didn't know much of the info you presented. I live about 110 miles away from Tillamook. The museum is one of those things I always mean to visit, but somehow never do.
My cousin started the Tillamook Air Museum, he died flying one of the museums aircraft. I have tried to find out more information but no one will offer any. I do have the documents from the City of Tillamook about him and the museum.
Very interesting. I was a Marine working out of MCAS Santa Ana, CA then renamed MCAS Tustin, CA. We had two hangars identical to this one. Hangar 1 and Hangar 2. The air station has been closed but the hangars are still there. They were designated National Historic Landmarks so they cannot be destroyed, for now. The base was nicknamed LTA, which means Lighter Than Air because of the U.S. Navy blimps that were hangared there during World War Two.
They will fly some of the planes to. It's pretty intense seeing the older planes still going strong.
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