Aviation Museum Layout Maps

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Maps (Cont.)

• Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum (Source)
• New England Air Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Golden Wings Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Hangar 25 Air Museum (Source)
• National Museum of the United States Air Force (5-Color Wayfinding, 2019) (via NationalMuseum.AF.mil)

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• American Museum of Aviation (Site Map) (Source)
• American Museum of Aviation (Storage Area) (Source)
• American Museum of Aviation (Floor Plan) (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Selfridge Military Air Museum (via SelfridgeAirMuseum.org)
• War Eagles Air Museum (Source)

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• Selfridge Military Air Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Hill Aerospace Museum (2023) (Source)
• Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace (Source)
• Patuxent River Naval Air Museum (Building A) (Source)
• Patuxent River Naval Air Museum (Building B) (Source)

Reproductions of Maps (Cont.)

• March Field Air Museum (Flight Line, August 2018) (Source)
• March Field Air Museum (Main & Heritage Hangars, August 2018) (Source)
• Pima Air & Space Museum (October 2012) (Source)

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• CIAL Museum (Source)
• Patuxent River Naval Air Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Canada Aviation and Space Museum (Aircraft Index) (via Unknown)

Proposed Maps (Cont.)

• National Museum of the United States Air Force (Exhibit Layout - Bldg 487) (Source)

Also, although its not strictly an aviation museum, the Museum of Missouri Military History did produce a layout for the aircraft in the parking lot in front of their building:

Non-Aviation Museums

• Museum of Missouri Military History (Source)

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The Yorkshire Air Museum, which was mentioned in a previous post, has updated their layout map to an overhead format:

Maps (Cont.)

• Yorkshire Air Museum (2023) (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Flight Path Museum (2022) (Source)
• Planes of Fame (Chino) (Source)
• Planes of Fame (Valle) (Source)

Reproductions of Maps (Cont.)

• British Columbia Aviation Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Museum of Aviation (2023) (Source)

Reproductions of Maps (Cont.)

• Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (Aviation Museum) (Source)
• Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (Aviation Museum, 2022) (Source)
• Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum (Space Museum) (Source)

Lastly, the Air Mobility Command Museum went a slightly different route, with an annotated aerial image:

(Source: Aviation History Museums)

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I tried editing OpenStreetMap the other day for the first time. I since went through and added or edited a bunch of aviation museums. This got me thinking: could I use the results to create layout maps? The one for Planes of Fame always confused me because the buildings were out of proportion, not accurately shaped and had incorrect relations to each other, so it made it somewhat difficult to determine exactly what and where each one was. I exported the relevant OSM data as an SVG file and edited it in Inkscape. I wanted make it resemble the original in most possible ways aside from what needed to be fixed. For comparison, the original:

(Source: Planes of Fame)

and the recreation:

I think it came out pretty well!

EDIT (24-05-25): Updated the design of the map to resemble the original a slight bit more.
EDIT (24-05-26): One additional minor change to the map.

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Maps (Cont.)

• Canadian Museum of Flight (Source)
• National Air Force Museum of Canada (Airpark) (Source)

I also measured and made a map of the Tri-State Warbird Museum:

I then added some of the aircraft 3-views to make a "ouija board" version with properly scaled aircraft that could be used to determine where each one could be positioned:

(Note, this is not an actual layout, just a template. Also the TBM has been included once each with wings extended and retracted and the Corsair divided into section to represent it configuration under restoration.)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Air Zoo (Campus Overview, 2020) (Source)
• Air Zoo (Flight Discovery Center, 2020) (Source)
• Air Zoo (Flight Innovation Center, 2020) (Source)
• de Havilland Aircraft Museum (2020) (Source)
• Kent Battle of Britain Museum (Source)
• The Helicopter Museum (Source)

Reproductions of Maps (Cont.)

• de Havilland Aircraft Museum (Source)

Other

• Army Flying Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Montrose Air Station Heritage Centre (2024) (Source)
• Uzurano Museum (Source)

Reproductions of Maps (Cont.)

• College Park Aviation Museum (Source)
• Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum (2017) (Source)
• National Museum of Flight (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Fagen Fighters WWII Museum (Source)

However, the museum's brochure, which can be found in PDF format on their website, has been revised as additional hangars have been built since the one above was created. Extracted versions are below:

(Source: Fagen Fighters WWII Museum (Archived))

(Source: Fagen Fighters WWII Museum)

EDIT (24-11-15): Fagen Fighters updated their website and posted a higher resolution version of the above map:

Maps (Cont.)

• Fagen Fighters WWII Museum (Source)

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Maps (Cont.)

• Historic Wendover Airfield (Source)

It is worth noting that maps of Wendover Air Force Base made for the Historic American Building Survey are available from the Library of Congress website and that these identify many of the buildings that are now part of the museum. An Flickr album of a tour byKelly Michals also includes pictures of the historic markers with reproductions of an old map that have mounted around the base.

EDIT (24-05-29): The Aviation Museum Layout Maps page on Warbird Philosophy has been updated with all of the posts made in this thread up to this point.