The Hagerstown Aviation Museum is an aviation museum at the Hagerstown Regional Airport in Hagerstown, Maryland. It is focused on the history of the Fairchild Aircraft Corporation.
History The idea for an aviation museum in Hagerstown began in 1995 with a group of individuals that included Richard Henson, Kent Mitchell, John Seburn, and Kurtis Meyers. After a decade of delays, the museum opened to the public at the Discovery Station in downtown Hagerstown, Maryland on 14 July 2005. The following year, the museum led a community fundraising effort and purchased a Fairchild C-82 Packet, the first of a series of cargo airplanes produced by Fairchild in Hagerstown. This airplane was purchased at the liquidation auction of Hawkins and Powers in Greybull, Wyoming.
The museum purchased a C-123 and trucked it to the airport in 2019.
After originally considering building a new hangar, the museum moved to the former Fairchild Aircraft Flight Test Hangar in 2020 and purchased the building three years later.
The museum held a grand opening on 14 September 2024.
The museum received an A-10C in 2025.
Collection
Aircraft on display
Bellanca CE – Original fuselage Fairchild 22 C7D 922 Fairchild 24R-9 R9-405 Fairchild 24R-46 R46-129 Fairchild C-82A Packet 45-57814 Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar 22111 Fairchild C-123K Provider 54-0681 Fairchild PT-19A 42-65485 Fairchild PT-19A 42-83447 Fairchild PT-19A 44-33689 Fairchild PT-23 Fairchild PT-26 Fairchild UC-61C 42-70862 Fairchild XNQ 75726 Fairchild Republic A-10C Thunderbolt II 79-0087 Kreider-Reisner KR-31 North American T-6G Texan 49-3390
Aircraft in storage
Bell UH-1V Iroquois Fairchild C-123K Provider 54-0592 Fairchild F-27F 33 Fairchild RC-26B
See also List of aviation museums
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