Airpower Museum, Aviation museum at Antique Airfield, Blakesburg, Iowa, US
The Airpower Museum is an aviation museum located at Antique Airfield in Blakesburg that displays historical aircraft, engines, and propellers across three hangars. The site sits on about 30 acres and uses the southern half of the north-south runway for regular flight operations with vintage aircraft.
The museum was founded in 1965 by Robert L. Taylor and the Antique Airplane Association, following a donation of aircraft engines from a university program. This founding led to the preservation of planes from different eras of aviation history.
The museum displays aircraft spanning different periods of aviation history, including military planes from World War II that you can walk around inside the hangars. Visitors can see how aircraft design and engineering evolved over the decades.
The museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9 AM to 5 PM and on Sundays from 1 PM to 5 PM. Plan to spend time walking through the three hangars, and keep in mind the grounds are expansive and open.
The museum actively uses the Antique Airfield runway to fly historical aircraft, so these old machines still take to the air. Visitors may occasionally see these planes in flight rather than only viewing them stationary in the hangars.
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