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Established
  
1979

Director
  
Paul Hammond

Website
  
March Field Air Museum

Phone
  
+1 951-902-5949

Type
  
Aviation museum

Curator
  
Jeff Houlihan

Founded
  
1979

March Field Air Museum

Location
  
Riverside County, near Moreno Valley, California

Address
  
March ARB, 22550 Van Buren Boulevard, March Air Reserve Base, CA 92518, USA

Hours
  
Closed today MondayClosedTuesday9AM–4PMWednesday9AM–4PMThursday9AM–4PMFriday9AM–4PMSaturday9AM–4PMSunday9AM–4PMSuggest an edit

Similar
  
Riverside Metropolitan Museum, Castle Air Museum, California Citrus State Historic P, Mission Inn Museum, UCR/California Museum of Photography

March field air museum tour


The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, adjacent to March Air Reserve Base.

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March field air museum in riverside county southern california


Origins

The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. Originally operated by the Air Force, the museum's operation was transferred to a nonprofit organization in 1996.

Aircraft

The museum has over 70 aircraft on display. Some of the more notable aircraft include:

  • A Lockheed P-38L Lightning replica. (The prototype XP-38 first flew on January 27, 1939 from March Field.)
  • A Boeing B-29A Superfortress Three Feathers III that flew 11 combat missions during World War II.
  • A Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter.
  • A Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. This aircraft appeared in the movie Space Cowboys (2000).
  • A Boeing B-52D Stratofortress that flew 175 combat missions in the Vietnam War.
  • A Northrop YA-9A, designed to the same requirements as the A-10 Warthog.
  • A Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (44-6393), CP-627, CP-891
  • Three F-4 Phantoms
  • An F-14 Tomcat
  • A Vultee BT-13 Valiant painted to replicate an Aichi D3A Val Dive Bomber for the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!.
  • An F-86 Sabre
  • A MiG-15
  • A MiG-21
  • A MiG-23
  • An F-100 Super Sabre
  • The sole Sauser P6E Replica

    • Indoor Exhibits

    Indoor displays include:

  • A Flight Simulator
  • A movie played on a regular recurring schedule
  • An AT-6 Texan
  • Replicas of a German 30mm cannon and jet engines
  • Missile and bomb cross-sections

    • Memorials

  • A memorial to War dogs.
  • Rep. Calvert proposed, in the Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial Act (H.R. 330; 113th Congress), that a memorial in honor of current and former members of the Armed Forces who have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross be created here.

    • References

    March Field Air Museum Wikipedia
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