The Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum acquired the 33,000 square foot former Rooms To Go furniture store from the City of Gulfport, Mississippi in September 2016 and has been hard at work renovating it ever since. In 2021, they posted a December 2017 rendering by the
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio of the College of Architecture, Art and Design at Mississippi State University showing what it could look like:
Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum(Source:
Facebook)
However, before they ever got that far, there were plans for a two floor, 52,000 square foot "John C. Robinson Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum" at the Gulfport-Biloxi International Airport. Some of these plans are still available on an archived version of their website:
John C. Robinson Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum(Source:
Brown Condor Association)
The Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin (not to be confused with the Deutsches Museum in Munich mentioned in a
previous post) worked with Gerkan, Marg and Partners to develop a plan to turn Hangar 6 at the former Templehof Airport into an 8,000 square meter exhibition hall:
Deutsches Technikmuseum(Source:
Flughafen Tempelhof)
The American Museum of Aviation, project of Hollywood aircraft mockup supplier Doug Scroggins, posted a few simple drawings of a proposed 45,000 square foot museum, 70,000 square foot restoration maintenance hangar and site on Facebook back in 2015. The museum building would include a Bowling Sports Museum complete with bowling alley, a Classic Route 66 Hot Rod Museum and a Tumble Weed snack bar:
American Museum of Aviation(Source:
Facebook)
The Yankee Air Museum was mentioned in a
previous post, but, like the Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum, they had plans for a new hangar before they acquired a portion of the former Willow Run plant:
Yankee Air Museum(Source:
Yankee Air Museum)
EDIT (24-03-03): Another plan for Tempelhof would see the Boeing 737-230C Landshut, which was the subject of the Lufthansa Flight 181 hijacking and was rescued from in Brazil, placed in one of the bays at the terminal:
Museum of the German Autumn(Source:
Welt)
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