A History of Peace in Dayton, Ohio by Newsom Tammy

Author:Newsom, Tammy [Newsom, Tammy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2015-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

DAYTON ’S MOST CELEBRATED MUSEUMS

Dayton, Ohio’s National Museum of the Air Force located on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is the oldest aviation museum in the world. The museum was started to trace America’s entire legacy of flight and retell its peace resolution efforts from the early years of the Wright brothers through World War II and the Cold War. Exhibits on the space age technology and twenty-first-century conflicts in the Middle East are on display at the museum to commemorate both the sacrifice and courage of those who explored new worlds or died courageously in battle.

Engineers from Dayton’s McCook Field first began collecting artifacts in 1923. The artifact recovery operation moved to a laboratory in Wright Field in 1927. Then in 1932, the collection was named the Army Aeronautical Museum and placed in a Works Progress Administration building from 1935 until after World War II. In 1948, this private collection was called the Air Force Technical Museum. In 1954, the Air Force Museum went public and opened its first permanent building, Building 89, an entire hanger of the former Patterson Field in Fairborn. The museum kept retired aircraft parked outside and remained there until 1971, when the current iteration opened. Since 1971, the museum has tripled in square footage.

The museum changed its name in October 2004 from the United States Air Force Museum to the National Museum of the United States Air Force. Many military planes, whether or not they were actually manufactured in Southwest Ohio, are permanently displayed in the museum. A fourth building, added in 2015, houses the Space Gallery, the Presidential Aircraft Gallery and the Global Reach Gallery. There, visitors can see the Crew Compartment Trainer One, CCT-1, which was used to teach astronauts how to fly orbiters and operate equipment in space. A full-scale mock-up of the payload bay was created as part of the exhibit.

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