Florida Military Aviation Museum

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Address(1) P.O. Box 1687 Address(2)   City Clearwater State Florida Zip 34622 Country USA Contact   Phone 813-535-9007 Fax   Giftshop Yes

Description

The Florida Military Aviation Museum is a non-profit, tax exempt, educationally oriented organization chartered by the state if Florida and dedicated to the preservation of aircraft, vehicles, and artifacts of our military services. We are particularly interested in promoting Florida's role in military aviation. To this end, we attempt to aquire aircraft that were either stationed in Florida or flown by Floridians.

All work is done by volunteers and is supported by the nominal admission fees, memberships, retail sales and donations.

The museum is currently located at 16055 Fairchild Dr. at the St. Petersburg - Clearwater International Airport. Due to airport expansion, the collection will be moved in October or November to a new location, most likely the former Ringling Circus site at the airport in Venice, Florida. We will update this page upon completion of the move.

Family and student memberships are available and volunteers are welcome.

Reviews / Comments by our visitors

CAPT Jim Philpitt, USN (Ret)  Orlando, Florida	As a guy who flew for the Navy until the mid-2000s, I concur with Bob Hufford's comments ref the P2V-3. However, I'd just like to add that several of the jets in FMAM's former collection eventually found a new home with the MAPS Air Museum in Canton, OH and are currently undergoing restoration there. This includes the T-37, F-86, F-100, F-101, F-102 and F-105. See: http://mapsairmuseum.org/old/T-37.asp http://mapsairmuseum.org/old/f86_recovery.asp http://www.airplanesofthepast.com/f100-super-sabre.htm http://mapsairmuseum.org/old/F101.asp http://mapsairmuseum.org/old/F102.asp http://mapsairmuseum.org/old/F105.asp 02/04/2016 @ 11:12 [ref: 55861]
Current resident  , Florida	Well, since people have been stopping by, This museum has been defunct for almost 14 years. Sadly things on the internet never go away. At least we now have an explanation. 10/06/2014 @ 09:23 [ref: 55665]
shannon  , Florida	Where are you located we want to visit 09/10/2014 @ 11:33 [ref: 55647]
Thomas Smith  Orlando, Florida	Nice museum! Way better than the Valiant Air Command Warbird museum in Titusville, Florida. At that museum, they have a yellow T-128 on display in their Vietnam hangar. That plane is owned by a guy sitting in Federal prison in Miami for NASA contract fraud. He bought that T-128 from the monies with that fraud scheme. He donated $65,000 of that money from that fraud scheme to that museum in Titusville. He also illegally flew their TBM Avenger back on March 30th 2014 before he reported to prison. That Avenger had been under restoration and never received any FAA inspections to verify it was airworthy. Plus that same guy had a previous conviction for sexual assault on his 19 year old babysitter in Minnesota back in 1989. The commander of that museum in Titusville is good friends with this guy. That museum in Titusville should turn that T-128 over to the government and also give the government back the $65,000 that guy donated. After all, that was money that came out of that NASA contract fraud scheme. This is NOT how a non-profit museum should be operated. How can one get the IRS to conduct an audit on a non-profit organization? 08/17/2014 @ 03:32 [ref: 55638]
CRAIG KNIGHT  , Florida	WE ELECTED A NEW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AROUND 1996--THEY THEN STARTED RELOCATING THE AIRCRAFT TO THE SEBRING AREA. WE WERE IN DANGER OF LOSING THE PROPERTY WE WERE ON. 08/16/2013 @ 04:10 [ref: 55505]
Cindy  , Florida	The phone number listed on your website is invalid. Wanted to plan a visit. Disappointed : ( 12/22/2012 @ 06:33 [ref: 55388]
John Spencer  Liverpool/ England,	Hi, what happened to all the aircraft that were at this museum please? 09/09/2012 @ 04:21 [ref: 55260]
the drake  , Delaware	crazy comments on this page apparently nobody is watching so fuck it LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL 12/28/2011 @ 11:16 [ref: 31378]
Bob Hardie  Lutz, Florida	What happened to the hawk battery? 07/03/2011 @ 14:49 [ref: 18167]
Rettro  Haymarket, Virginia	I was certainly glad that I took a look at these reviews. I nearly made a long drive for what appears to be almost nothing. It seems a real shame that the directors of the museum have appearently mismanaged what seems to have been a great collection of aircraft. Can't they at least have the courtesy to update and maintain this web site so that they fairly represent what they have left? 12/27/2010 @ 17:24 [ref: 12085]

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