Port Townsend Aero Museum is an aviation museum located at Jefferson County International Airport in Port Townsend, Washington.
History The museum was founded in 2001 by Jerry and Peggy Thoutte with six flyable aircraft. The museum was initially located in a number of hangars at the airport, but moved into a new building in 2008. The Thouttes retired from daily operations in 2016 and Michael Payne took over as director. The museum acquired eight aircraft from the North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum when the latter closed in 2018.
On April 28, 2019, a PT-17 Stearman biplane that belonged to the museum made an emergency landing on a beach at Discovery Bay, Washington after an in-flight engine failure. The forced landing onto the narrow sloping beach resulted in significant damage to the airframe, but caused only minor injuries for the pilot and passenger.
Construction on a expansion of the museum was in progress in 2022.
Aircraft on display
Aeronca C-3B Master Aeronca 7AC Champion Aeronca L-3 Beechcraft C17B Staggerwing Boeing P-12C – Replica Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross CallAir A-2 Cessna 140 Corben Baby Ace Curtiss-Wright Junior de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk Dormoy Bathtub Fairchild 22 C7B Fairchild 24W40 Fairchild M62 – Painted as a PT-19B Howard DGA-4 – Replica Laister-Kauffman LK-10A Mooney M-18LA Mite Pietenpol Sky Scout Piper J3C-65 Cub Rose Parrakeet Schleicher Ka 6E Stinson SM-8A Junior Taylorcraft B Taylorcraft BC-12-D Travel Air 2000
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20190109224333/http://www.ptaeromuseum.com/collection_aircraft.html
External links Official website