Hiller Aviation Museum
 The front of the Hiller Aviation Museum. A Rutan Long-EZ is on the roof. | |
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| Established | June 1998 |
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| Location | San Carlos, California |
| Type | Aerospace museum |
| Collection size | 50+ aircraft |
| Founder | Stanley Hiller Jr. |
| President | Jeffery Bass |
| Website | www.hiller.org |
The Hiller Aviation Museum is an aircraft history museum located at the San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, California. The museum was founded by Stanley Hiller in June 1998.[1] and is endowed by members of the Hiller family. It specializes in Northern California aircraft history and helicopter history. The museum is also an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program.[2]
Permanent exhibits[]
This museum has more than 50 aerospace vehicles along with companion descriptive displays concerning the history of flight. Some of the exhibits include:
- The Hiller XH-44 (replica), first coaxial helicopter to fly in the US
- The Hiller Flying Platform, an experimental aircraft from 1955 to give a single passenger low-altitude flight[3]
- The front 45 feet of a Boeing 747[4]
- Fairchild 24
- Stearman-Hammond Y-1, a mid-1930s trainer also used as a remotely piloted aircraft
- The Rutan Defiant, Burt Rutan's personal homebuilt airplane.
- A Grumman HU-16 Albatross that was the first to circumnavigate the earth.[5]
- The NASA AD-1 oblique wing research aircraft.
Annual airshow[]
This museum sponsored Vertical Challenge, an annual all-helicopter airshow from 2000-2010, and a final one in 2012. In 2011 and 2016 an aviation festival event called Heli-Fest was held instead.
See also[]
- Coleopter
- List of aerospace museums
References[]
- ^ Costantinou, Marianne (2006-04-23). "Stanley Hiller Jr. -- designed helicopters, created museum". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ "Affiliate detail: Hiller Aviation Museum". Smithsonian Affiliations. 2011. Archived from the original on 2017-02-02. Retrieved 2017-06-17.
- ^ Hiller Flying Platform
- ^ Boeing 747-100 Nose Section and Cockpit
- ^ Grumman HU-16-RD “Albatross”
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Coordinates: 37°30′45″N 122°15′11″W / 37.5124°N 122.2531°W
San Mateo County, California, United States | |
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- Aerospace museums in California
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- 1998 establishments in California