Minnesota Air Guard Museum Artifacts

Many of the images for the planes are crude placeholders for later elaboration. Feel free to browse about, but the good stuff won't be done for a while.

Aircraft:

Simulators:

Link Trainer
C-97 Globemaster flight deck
C-130 full trainer
F-4D Phantom II Instrument trainer
F-4D Phantom II Egress trainer
F-102 Delta Dart Familiarization trainer

Engines:

OX-5 V-8 cylinder, liquid cooled with exposed rocker arms. Used by many post-WWI biplanes.
Jacobs radial
Pratt & Whitney R985 Jr Wasp Radial - Used on C-45 and Beavers
Pratt & Whitney R1350 Wasp Radial - Used on C-47
Cut-away, moving, PW R3850 Twin-bank Radial
... Many other radial engines ...
... Many 4 and 6 cylinder horizontally-opposed engines ...
Centrifugal-flow jet engine - from T-33
Axial-flow jet engine - from F-4
Turbo-Prop engine, gearbox, and prop from C-130, cut-away

Other artifacts:

Worlds largest display of Air National Guard unit patches
Many propellers from a wide variety of planes
Uniforms and flight gear
Photo archive of Mrs Ray S. Miller, wife of the founder of the Air Guard
Large collection of aircraft flight manuals and Tech. Orders, including many experimental military aircraft.
Large library of aviation books and magazines.
Scale model collection of Air Guard aircraft and others. (The museum is also the home to the Twin-Cities Aero Historians modeling and history group)

We also have a gift store that offers t-shirts, patches, models, books, and other interesting aviation items.

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