Aviation Museum Blueprints, Concept Art, and Renderings

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Deutsches Museum
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
(Source: Deutsches Museum)
Exhibit 1A
(Source: Paradise)
Exhibit 1B
(Source: My News Desk)

Polish Aviation Museum
Hangar Restoration
(Source: Polish Aviation Museum)
Exterior Plan Looking East
First Floor Plan
Three Floor Plans
Second Floor Plan
Section Plan
Aerial Image
Site Plan
(Source: ArchDaily)

Waco Air Museum
Learning Center from Left
Learning Center from Right
(Source: Waco Air Museum)
Exterior Elevations
(Source: Waco Air Museum)

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These are a little different since they are, as of yet, not exactly museums, but foundations in the process of opening museums:

Aviation Trail, Inc.
PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
(Source: Aviation Trail, Inc.)

National Stearman Foundation
Exterior (Old)
(Source: National Stearman Foundation)
Exterior
(Source: National Stearman Foundation)
Exterior (with Pictures)
(Source: National Stearman Foundation)
Blueprint (with Picture)
(Source: National Stearman Foundation)

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As mentioned in a previous post:

National American Huey History Museum
Composite Image 1
Interior 1
Construction Phases
Interior 2
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
Composite Image 2
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
View 1
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
View 2
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
View 3
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
Overview 1
Exterior
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
Composite Image 3
(Source: National American Huey History Museum)
Overview 2
(Source: Polar Engraving)

Also, Old Rhinebeck is building a new hangar:

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
Exterior
(Source: Facebook)
Hangar Elevations, 3D Views (PDF)
Existing Conditions/Demo Plan, Overall Site Plan, Detailed - Site Plan (PDF)
[Renderings] (PDF)
Existing Conditions/Demo Plan, Overall Site Plan, Detailed - Site Plan (PDF)
(Source: Town of Red Hook, New York)

EDIT (23-04-17): Add 4 PDFs about the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome. An additional 7 PDFs (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) related to the hangar, but not containing visual information are also available.

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Warhawk Air Museum
Airport Map
Maintenance Hangar Elevations
(Source: Warhawk Air Museum)

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National Museum of World War II Aviation
Site Plan 1
(Source: National Museum of World War II Aviation)
Kaija Raven Shook Aeronautical Pavilion
Aviation Hall 1
(Source: National Museum of World War II Aviation)
Aviation Hall 2
Aviation Hall 3
(Source: The Gazette)
Site Plan 2
Ground Level Exhibit Plan
Concept Art
(Source: National Museum of World War II Aviation)
Homefront Exhibit
(Source: National Museum of World War II Aviation)

EDIT (22-01-30): For reference, a picture from a Gazette article shows that the proposed Aviation Hall was supposed to be located at the east end of the parking lot.

EDIT (24-08-26): About a month ago, Adam Estes took a picture of a rendering on the wall of the museum's Briefing Room (adjacent to the gift shop) that shows their three phase plan:

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Carolinas Aviation Museum
Site Plan
(Source: Progressive AE)
Aerial View 1
Airport Map
Aerial View 2
Aerial View 3
(Source: Tobin)

Indian Air Force Museum
Overview
(Source: Indian Defence Review)

Yanks Air Museum
Entrance 1
(Source: Yanks Air Museum)
Entrance 2
(Source: Greenfield News)
Entrance 3 (with Overlaid Text)
Aerial View (with Overlaid Text)
Exhibits (with Overlaid Text)
(Source: Yanks Air Museum)

EDIT (23-12-29): Added 1 additional rendering to the Yanks Air Museum.
EDIT (24-05-18): Added 3 additional renderings to the Yanks Air Museum.
EDIT (24-06-28): The discussion in the Yanks F6F thread brought up the subject of their expansion. Two renderings and a site plan published in the Gonzalez Tribune in the mid- to late-1990s illustrate what the project is intended to look like:

THE PROPOSED air museum would showcase aircraft from World War II.

A WINERY included in the plans for Yanks Air Museum would have 20,000 to 30,000 square feet.

(Source: Newspapers.com)

THE YANKS AIR MUSEUM, which has been in the planning stages since 1991, will be on the Aug. 13 agenda for the county planning commission. The complex would be built in six phases over five years on land just north of Greenfield. The planning commission will consider the EIR at its meeting.

(Source: Newspapers.com)

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Royal Air Force Museum, London
Masterplan
Hangar Ground Floor Plan
Concept Model
Cutaway Model
(Source: Nex)
Sunderland Hall
[Exerior]
Restaurant Interior
Orientation Space
Centennary Entrance
Axonometric View
Elevation
[Second] Floor Plan
Main Entrance
(Source: ArchDaily)
[Floor Plan]
(Source: Nex)

Student Project
Aviation Museum Project

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This post is a bit different because it involves PDFs rather than actual images. The first is a proposal for an aviation museum in Bolivia. The other is the Heritage Flight Museum, which included renderings of their new hangar in their newsletters.

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Ohio Air & Space Hall of Fame and Learning Center
AvSTEAM on 2nd Floor
Gallery 2
Lindbergh Room
Monument
[Entrance Sign]
(Source: Ohio Air & Space Hall of Fame and Learning Center)
Simulator Stations 2
(Source: Warbirds News)
Tower Side
(Source: Warbirds News)
Aerial View
(Source: No Plane No Gain)
Street View
(Source: Dayton Daily News)
Founders Walk
(Source: Columbus Underground)
North Elevation
(Source: Columbus Underground)
[Patio]
[Admission Desk & Gift Shop]
[Interior 1]
[Interior 2]
[Conference Room]
[Lindbergh Room 2]
(Source: Columbus Business First)
[Interior 3]
(Source: Facebook)

Note that it was originally called the "Ohio Air & Space Hall of Fame and Museum" according to the rendering of the entrance sign. Furthermore, the images that include "screen shot" in the URL appear to have been taken from a video fly-through the museum posted on YouTube.

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I've often wondered if the Alaska Aviation Museum ever had any plans to move given how cramped and awkward their current location is. Well, the other day I found my answer. I happened across a presentation from 2011 about how the museum upgraded its lights to LED. On the final slide were two renderings of a new building that appears to be located roughly 2,900 feet to the east on the south shore of Lake Spenard. It's a pretty impressive building and I doubt it will happen anytime soon, but it proves they were thinking about it.

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The Air Force Flight Test Museum now has a third set of renderings of their new facility. I particularly enjoy the F-35 under restoration:

Air Force Flight Test Museum
Interior
Exterior 1
Exterior 2
Exterior 3
Exterior 4
Exhibit 1
Exhibit 2
Exhibit 3
Exhibit 4
Pancho Barnes Bar
(Source: Flight Test Museum Foundation)
Exterior 5
Orbital Render
Interior Composition
(Source: Flight Test Museum)
Interior 2
Interior 3
(Source: Flight Test Museum)
Interior 4
Interior 5
Interior 6
(Source: Flight Test Museum)

I have also recently been informed that Historic Wendover Airfield has renderings of its future plans on its website:

Historic Wendover Airfield
Phase Map
Barracks
Celestial Navigation Trainer
Plan View
Runway, East
Runway, West
(Source: Historic Wendover Airfield)

EDIT (25-01-21): Add 8 Air Force Flight Test Museum entries.

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KF Aerospace Centre for Excellence
Concept Render
(Source: KF Center for Excellence)
[Aerial View]
Roof Plan
[Exterior 1]
(Source: KF Center for Excellence)
Front-On
[Interior]
Stripped Building
(Source: StructureCraft)
Top View
Front View
Front-On
Outside
[Exterior 2]
(Source: Naturally:Wood)
[Exterior 3]
(Source: Business Examiner)
[Exterior 4]
(Source: GSM)

The Vulcan Experience
Main Hangar
Dinner Setting
(Source: Vulcan to the Sky Trust)
Green Tech Hub
(Source: Vulcan to the Sky Trust)
STEM Activities
(Source: Vulcan to the Sky Trust)
Visiting Spitfire
(Source: Vulcan to the Sky Trust)
V-Force Memorial External
(Source: Vulcan to the Sky Trust)
Proposed Hangar
(Source: Warbirds News)
Composite 1
(Source: Pooleys Flight Equipment)
Composite 2
(Source: Twitter)

There's also a PDF with some sketches.

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In mid-2003, after being forced to disassemble their "center section" exhibit gallery due to the September 11th attacks, the apparently then named Minnesota Air Guard Museum created concept art and a model for a reimagined version. As pictured in the last entry below, the museum also had ultimately unrealized plans to relocate to the southern half of the Fort Snelling golf course roughly 3,400 feet to the southwest:

Minnesota Air Guard Museum
Tower
(Source: Minnesota Air Guard Museum)
Tent
(Source: Minnesota Air Guard Museum)
Model Tower Entrance (Thumbnail)
(Source: Minnesota Air Guard Museum)
Model Tower Above
(Source: Minnesota Air Guard Museum)
Model
(Source: Minnesota Air Guard Museum)
Aerial
(Source: Minnesota Air Guard Museum)

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The California Science Center is currently in the planning stages for the Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center to house their aircraft collection and the Space Shuttle Endeavour. As part of the above, they have built a scale model and placed it in a display case in the museum. A video tour of the model is available on YouTube and a second video has some shaky footage of the floorplans behind it.

Samuel Oschin Air and Space Center of the California Science Center
Endeavour
(Source: Bluebeam)
Model
(Source: Western Museums Association)
Concourse
Air Gallery
Space
Shuttle
Shuttle Overhead
Shuttle Underneath
(Source: Ron McPherson)
Exterior
(Source: California Science Center)

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Unfortunately, when it comes to aviation museums, the archival side of things often seems to be neglected in favor of the aircraft. Therefore, I was particularly happy when I came across some documentation a while back about the building of the National Air and Space Museum's Dulles Collections Center Expansion. While it was hinted at in a blog post about moving the museum's archives, the project has generally flown under the radar. If you're interested in the architectural design of a modern collections storage facility, it is some really informative reading. (For a similar large-volume, high-density storage concept, see the ReCAP facility at the James Forrestal Campus of Princeton University, and for a cheaper option, the Internet Archive's physical archive.)

Interestingly, easily missed on page 6 is a hint at another collections facility expansion. To the south of a small creek that crosses the property is the footprint of a large building. Not much information is available about this facility, but a video of a presentation during a 10 July 2014 meeting provides some details. Appearing at 1:38:35, it is labeled a "Large Object Prototype" and billed as a way to "reduce...reliance on leased collections storage space". It has been clear for years that NASM has wanted to move out of the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility in Silver Hill, Maryland. There have been mentions of transporting everything to Dulles, as suggested in a blog post. However, I could never figure out how everything would fit in the available space. This appears to be the solution.

These documents come from the National Capital Planning Commission, which has reports and presentations on number of other NASM related projects:

• 6890: Public Telescope and Observatory Temporary Renewal
• 7585: Revitalization
• 7817: Dulles Collections Center
• 8351: Bezos Learning Center

Finally, a rendering of the Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar that was built by Hensel Phelps:

Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar of the National Air and Space Museum
Interior
(Source: Smithsonian Magazine)

EDIT (24-06-30): In regards to what will replace the Silver Hill Facility if and when the Dulles Collections Center is completed, according to the Suitland Collections Center Master Plan, the buildings will be demolished and replaced by a series of 6 collections storage "Pods" and additional buildings in a "Campus Quad" layout. The first phase of this project, the construction of Building 38, has already been completed.

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