MAPS Air Museum
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The MAPS Air Museum is an aviation museum in Green, Ohio, United States.[1] Run by the Military Aviation Preservation Society, it is located off SR241 on the west side of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport.[1]
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Established | 1990 |
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Location | Green, Ohio |
Coordinates | 40°55′1″N 81°27′16″W |
Type | Aviation museum |
Executive director | Kim Kovesci |
Curator | Jim Cameron |
Website | www |
The museum holds more than 50 aircraft,[2] most on loan from the U.S. Air Force or Navy for restoration. It also has two aircraft from the Goodyear Rubber Company. The aircraft are displayed in a former U.S. Air National Guard hangar and on an adjacent tarmac.
Its collection of rare artifacts includes the gondola from the "Spirit of Akron", a Goodyear blimp.
The museum's Gallery of Heroes room holds detailed models and period items from wars. Various displays highlight Pearl Harbor (artifacts include a piece of the battleship Arizona), The Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the Riveter, and include items on loan from members of the museum and community who fought in wars.
The museum's library maintains and preserves institutional records and collects, preserves, and makes available images, literature, manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, books, and oral histories relating to military history. The library collection is open to the public with admission to the museum. Members may check books out.