Air Mobility Command Museum, Military aviation museum in Dover, United States.
The Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover displays over 30 transport and refueling aircraft in a large hangar and outdoor area. The collection also includes cockpit equipment, navigation instruments, and engine components that show how these planes operated.
The museum began in 1978 when members of the 512th Military Airlift Wing set out to restore a B-17G, Shoo Shoo Shoo Baby, as a maintenance training project; the restoration took ten years. Colonel Walter Kross, commander of the 436th Military Airlift Wing, then directed planning for a permanent display, and the Dover AFB Historical Center opened on 13 October 1986. Three days later a C-47 was airlifted in from Muir Army Airfield in Pennsylvania. Recognized as a museum by the U.S. Air Force in 1995, it moved to Hangar 1301 in June 1996 and took the name Air Mobility Command Museum in February 1997.
Military uniforms, flight gear, and personal items from pilots and crew members are on display throughout the galleries. These objects give a sense of how the people who flew and serviced these aircraft lived and worked over the decades.
The museum is located near Route 9 and easy to reach by car with free parking available on-site. Bring water and wear comfortable shoes, since you will spend time both indoors in the hangar and outdoors exploring the aircraft displays.
The museum holds a complete set of the significant Lockheed airlifters the Air Force and Army used since World War II, and several aircraft are the first, last or only examples of their model. The retired control tower cab that served Dover AFB from 1956 to 2009 stands outside.
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