Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum, Aviation museum in Hillsboro, United States

The Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum occupies a hangar at Hillsboro Airport that once housed Roger Kelsay's charter company Premier Jets. Its aircraft, including MiG-17F and MiG-21 fighters, F-104 Starfighters, a Northrop F-5, a Fouga CM-170 Magister and a Hawker Hunter F Mk.51, are kept flyable or restored toward flight; the rest of the collection sits at Corvallis Aero Services and the Tillamook Air Museum.

Roger Kelsay founded the charter company Premier Jets at Hillsboro Airport in 1984 and bought a 1958-built MiG-17F in 1995, a former Polish Air Force machine. He founded the museum in 1998 and donated many of its aircraft. In 2007 the collection gained a MiG 21 bought from a Chevrolet dealership in Federal Way, Washington, and an F-104G from Taiwan's Feng Chia University; a 1942 Douglas C-47A followed in 2009. A lost hangar lease in 2016 sent part of the collection to Tillamook and Corvallis.

The museum functions as an educational center where volunteers share stories about aviation history with school groups and community members who visit. This place represents a commitment to keeping aircraft and the people who flew them from being forgotten.

Visitors should check ahead about opening times since the museum is only accessible at certain times and advance arrangements are often needed. Planning ahead and contacting the museum about current availability is a good approach.

Some aircraft in the collection are maintained in flying condition, which means they occasionally appear at air shows and flight demonstrations. These active planes let visitors experience the aircraft in action, not just parked on display.