Aviation Museum Blueprints, Concept Art, and Renderings

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:30 pm

Historic Wendover Airfield, which was mentioned in a previous post, had a previous rendering of the restored Enola Gay Hangar with a B-29 parked in front of it:

Historic Wendover Airfield

Exterior Rendering

(Source: Historic Wendover Airfield)

The Minter Field Air Museum had a plan for a large hangar and landscaped park:

Minter Field Air Museum

Exterior Drawing

(Source: Minter Field Air Museum)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 10, 2024 7:49 pm

Although not immediately obvious, the Fargo Air Museum has a rendering of a new glass-enclosed façade connecting their two existing hangars in the background of their donation page. This expansion is known as Phase III and, according to an event announcement, will include an event center:

Fargo Air Museum

Southeast Exterior Perspective

(Source: Fargo Air Museum)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:08 pm

The curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum sent me some renderings from April 2020 by HLW of their proposed new building on Wednesday and generously gave me permission to post them. The building will be located on the site of Hangar 1, which burned down in 1981.[1] It will have two floors, 20,000 square foot each and, excitingly, the upper one will have a proper library, archives and collections storage!

Cradle of Aviation Museum

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(Source: Cradle of Aviation Museum)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:42 pm

The Valiant Air Command has plans to add a 300 foot x 428 foot concrete apron, a 140 foot x 160 foot event facility and two 120 foot x 180 foot hangars in that order:

Valiant Air Command

Proposed Expansion Plan and Hangars (PDF, with text)

(Source: North Brevard Business Directory)

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(Source: North Brevard Business Directory)

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Noha307 · **Posted:** Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:44 pm

The Texas Air & Space Museum has plans to renovate their 8 existing buildings and grain silo as well as build a welcome center/library/classrooms/conference building on a roughly 20 acre lot next to the Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport:

Texas Air & Space Museum

(Source: Texas Air & Space Museum)

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(Source: Texas Air & Space Museum)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Fri Apr 26, 2024 5:14 pm

The National Naval Aviation Museum, following the completion of Hangar Bay One in 2011 (Phase IV), had plans for an additional expansion (Phase V) to move more aircraft on the flightline inside:

National Naval Aviation Museum

[Interior Rendering]

(Source: Naval Aviation Museum Foundation)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:46 pm

Not unlike the Royal Air Force Museum Midlands as mentioned in a previous post, the Imperial War Museum Duxford also has plans to redesign its outdoor space and create an area called the Weston Play Zone:

Imperial War Museum Duxford

[Aerial Drawing]

(Source: IWM)

The Valiant Air Command's current plans were mentioned in a previous post, but they had a concept for a much larger building resembling the design of the American Air Museum in 2012:

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(Source: North Brevard Business Directory)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Thu May 09, 2024 5:39 pm

The contractor for the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum's 1,800 square foot artifacts restoration center was mentioned in a previous post, but there is a rendering of it as well:

Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum

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(Source: Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sat May 18, 2024 7:48 pm

The Beechcraft Heritage Museum has plans for a "Beech Park" to the east of their campus with a camping area and recreational vehicle parking - presumably to be used during their "Beech Party" fly-in:

Beechcraft Heritage Museum

Master Plan

(Source: Google)

The Peterson Air and Space Museum would like to renovate the Broadmoor Hangar, Building 982, as well as expand parking, add sidewalks and improve nearby landscaping:

Peterson Air and Space Museum

Master Plan

(Source: Space Force)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Mon May 20, 2024 2:27 pm

Similar to NASM's Dulles Collections Center and RAFM's Collections Hub mentioned in previous posts (1, 2), the Reynolds Museum has plans for a new "Collections Facility East" made up of a 65,000 square foot hangar, a 10,000 square foot "mobile racking area" for unassembled aircraft and a "resource centre" (read: archive) for their document collection:

Reynolds-Alberta Museum

(Source: Diamond Schmitt)

The British Columbia Aviation Museum would like to build a new hangar to the southeast of their current facility to house additional aircraft. The proposal also shows a new lobby or entrance at the front of the main hangar:

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Noha307 · **Posted:** Tue May 21, 2024 11:27 pm

The City of Norwich Aviation Museum recently opened a second exhibition hall called Fenland Hall. The building, which measures 260 square meters, holds 90% of the collection of the Fenland and West Norfolk Aviation Museum, which was forced to close in 2022:[1]

City of Norwich Aviation Museum

Proposed South Elevation, Proposed West Elevation & Sketch View of Propose Exhibit Hall 2

(Source: Facebook)

Sketch View of Propose Exhibit Hall 2

(Source: Facebook)

The de Havilland Aircraft Museum launched their "de Havilland Aircraft Museum in the 21st Century Project" a few years ago to fund the construction of the Sir Geoffrey de Havilland Hangar:

de Havilland Aircraft Museum

Exterior

(Source: Aviation Heritage UK)

Interior

(Source: St Albans and Harpenden Review)

In 2019, Dyess Memorial Park began construction on a memorial in honor of the men and women from the base that had lost their lives:

Dyess Memorial Park

Model

(Source: Abilene Reporter-News)

Similar to the example at the Imperial War Museum Duxford mentioned previous post, the Fleet Air Arm Museum had a playground built:

Fleet Air Arm Museum

Play Area

(Source: ProLudic)

It what might be one of the oldest cases to date, the South Australian Aviation Museum posted a drawing of the then proposed Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith War Memorial:

Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith War Memorial

[Drawing]

(Source: Facebook)

Lastly, another project for a "Earhart Aviation Museum" (not to be confused with the actual Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum):

Earhart Aviation Museum

Noha307 · **Posted:** Wed May 29, 2024 11:08 pm

Western North Carolina Air Museum

Rendering (Photograph)

(Source: Western Western North Carolina Air Museum)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:23 pm

Hucknall Flight Test Museum

Rendering (with Text)

(Source: Hucknall Flight Test Museum)

Floor Plan & Elevations

(Source: Facebook)

Aerospace Center for Excellence: Project Skylab

Rendering

(Source: The Lunz Group)

Delta Flight Museum

(Source: Lorenc Design)

The Empire State Aerosciences Museum was mentioned in a previous post, but it didn't include a video of renderings for a new building they produced:

Expanded ESAM Architectural Design Presentation (Video)

(Source: YouTube)

Noha307 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 04, 2024 4:49 pm

The National Museum of Commercial Aviation in Forest Park, Georgia was never built, but if its 43,000-square-foot hangar and 16,000-square-foot Learning Center were it might have looked something like the following:

National Museum of Commercial Aviation