The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM) is an aviation museum and aircraft restoration facility located at Reading Regional Airport in Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum, founded by Russ Strine, the current President, collects and actively restores historic war planes and classic airliners as well as rare civilian and military aircraft. Many of the museum's historic aircraft are often seen on the airshow circuit.
Overview The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum has hosted the “World War II Weekend Air Show” annually since 1990. The event is generally scheduled to coincide with 6 June, attracting nearly 100,000 people.
The museum offers rides in their vintage North American SNJ and in a Stearman Biplane on the second Saturday of the month from May through October, excluding the month of June.
It has also undertaken an ambitious project to restore its Northrop P-61B Black Widow, recovered from New Guinea in 1989, to flying condition.
Mid Atlantic Air Museum also sells aircraft for MS Flight Simulator of some of their restored aircraft, such as the B-25, C-47, and TBM Avenger.
In 2014, the museum acquired 10 t-hangars from a company called Airlife Hangars.
In 2017, the construction of a new hangar and storage building was approved, and work began the following year.
Aircraft on display
Aeronca C-3 Aeronca K Aichi D3A – replica American Aerolites Double Eagle American Eagle Eaglet 31 Arrow Model F Auster Mk.V J/1 Autocrat Beechcraft Model G18S Bellanca 14-19-3 Cruisair Stearman N2S-3 Kaydett Brunner-Winkle Bird Cessna 150M Commander Cessna UC-78 Bobcat Commonwealth 185 Skyranger CCW-5 Channelwing Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain Elias EC-1 Aircoupe ERCO 415-G Ercoupe Fairchild 24 G Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar Fairchild PT-19 Fairchild PT-26 Cornell Eastern Aircraft TBM-3E Avenger Heath CNA-40 Midwing Heath LNA-40 Kellett KD-1 Kinner B-1 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune Martin 4-0-4 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N North American B-25J Mitchell North American F-86F Sabre North American SNJ-4B Texan Northrop P-61B Black Widow Piasecki H-21B Shawnee Pietenpol Air Camper Piper J-2 Cub Piper NE-1 Cub Piper L-21B Grasshopper Piper PA-22 Tripacer Piper PA-22-150 Caribbean Piper PA-34-200 Seneca Republic F-84B Thunderjet Republic RC-3 Seabee Ried Flying Submarine Rutan VariEze Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard Spratt 108 Taylor-Young Model A Troyer VX Vickers 745D Viscount Vultee BT-13A Valiant
References
External links
Mid Atlantic Air Museum World War II Weekend Air Show Information Mid Atlantic Air Museum Photos of aircraft and other aviation exhibits at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA