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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:10 pm 
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After a two week delay due to Harvey, LSFM opened their new facility at 9AM, Saturday, Sept 16th. Here's a few pictures of what it looks like. The Texas Aviation Hall of Fame, gift shop, and a couple other areas weren't open when I took these, I'll add them later.

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The Aviation Learning Center. School groups will file a flight plan, "pre-flight" the Mooney, then a simulator flight from Ellington to Galveston. This is modeled after the one at Museum of Flight in Seattle.
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I've seen many models of the Hornet, this is the best of them.
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All of the planes have panels describing them. All of the panels have casters for easy moving around.
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As you can see, there are planes from the CAF, Collings Foundation, Texas Flying Legends, and Vietnam War Flight Museum on display. If you want more detailed pictures of any plane, let me know here.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 6:19 pm 
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Whose Hellcat is in the first pic and where is the LSFM's own Hellcat?


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The LSFM is a very nice facility. It is well lit, not stuffed full of planes on top of one another (which is a plus for photographs), smells nice (that new car smell), and very clean (as you would expect). I hope they rotate the stock seeing as they display planes from various organizations. I do miss the Hustler they used to have. This is a win for the city. Yes, we have NASA (in Clear Lake), but this is the first aviation museum. This should be added to the City Pass and visitors will be able to see JSC and LSFM in one day. The admission is a bit steep as far as aviation museums go, but a yearly membership is a bargain. I wish them success.
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Yeah you can't just glance over that Hellcat. Which one is it?! Who owns it?!

BTW Thanks for the photos. The place looks amazing.

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C VEICH wrote:
Whose Hellcat is in the first pic and where is the LSFM's own Hellcat?


My guess would be the one owned by the Friedkin Family...


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Does anyone know the estimated cost to build the museum?

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C VEICH wrote:
...where is the LSFM's own Hellcat?

Sold to Erickson


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Wow! What a beautiful new facility! Fantastic. I gotta get down there some time.

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Beautiful facility! Do they still have the F4U-5 or is that one of the aircraft that has been sold? Seems like LSFM has had a lot of aircraft leave over the past few years ... Glad to see them with a new building to house their collection though.

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dusttinbound wrote:
Does anyone know the estimated cost to build the museum?

Somewhere in the mid $30M range.


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maradamx3 wrote:
dusttinbound wrote:
Does anyone know the estimated cost to build the museum?

Somewhere in the mid $30M range.


We've been told $38 million.


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Beautiful facility! Do they still have the F4U-5 or is that one of the aircraft that has been sold? Seems like LSFM has had a lot of aircraft leave over the past few years ... Glad to see them with a new building to house their collection though.


The Corsair is still in Galveston, will fly to EFD soon.


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Nice photos, thanks

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67N20, thanks a million for posting! 8)

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