The Vintage Flying Museum is an American

United States

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 aviation museum

Aviation museum

An aviation museum, air museum or aerospace museum is a museum exhibiting the history and artifacts of aviation. In addition to actual or replica aircraft, exhibits can include photographs, maps, models, dioramas, clothing and equipment used by aviators.Aviation museums vary in size from housing...

 located in Meacham International Airport, Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the 16th-largest city in the United States of America and the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas. Located in North Central Texas, just southeast of the Texas Panhandle, the city is a cultural gateway into the American West and covers nearly in Tarrant, Parker, Denton, and...

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Mission

The museum states their aim as: "The primary mission of the Vintage Flying Museum, a Texas 501C(3) Non Profit, is to preserve America's flying heritage in Word, Deed and Action"".

Programs

The museum runs a unique series of educational programs that include aviation summer camps for middle and high school students, aviation workshops for teachers as well as Take Flight Days, which are single day programs for elementary school students.

Aircraft

The museum's collection consists of over twenty aircraft, including:

• Aeronca 11 Chief
• Aeronca L-3B Grasshopper
• American Flea - 1930s vintage homebuilt aircraft
  Homebuilt aircraft
  Also known as amateur-built aircraft or kit planes, homebuilt aircraft are constructed by persons for whom this is not a professional activity. These aircraft may be constructed from "scratch," from plans, or from assembly kits.-Overview:...
  
  
• Beechcraft Model 18
  Beechcraft Model 18
  The Beechcraft Model 18, or "Twin Beech", as it is better known, is a 6-11 seat, twin-engine, low-wing, conventional-gear aircraft that was manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas...
  
  
• Boeing PT-17 Stearman Kaydet
• Convair 640
• Knight Falcon - experimental test bed surveillance aircraft
• Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star
• LTV L450F
  LTV L450F
  -See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Taylor, John W.R. Jane's All The World's Aircraft 1971-1972. London: Sampson Low Marston & Co, 1972. ISBN 354-000-942....
  
  
• North American AT-6D Texan
• North American B-25J Mitchell Pacific Prowler
• North American F-86 Sabre
• Piaggio P.136 Royal Gull
• Ryan PT-22 Recruit
• Stinson L-5 Sentinel

The Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress Chuckie which the museum had described as "the focal point of the museum" was transferred from the Vintage Flying Museum to the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area of Virginia, on the Atlantic Ocean at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay...

in January 2011.