CAF Utah Wing Museum, Aviation museum at Heber City Municipal Airport, United States
The CAF Utah Wing Museum occupies a hangar at Russ McDonald Field, Heber City Municipal Airport. Its exhibits cover World War II, Korea and Vietnam, and the wing flies an N2S-5 Boeing-Stearman built in Wichita in 1943 and a T-6 Texan advanced trainer. Character displays recount local pilots such as B-17 bombardier Herbert Rostoff, shot down over Germany in July 1944.
The museum is a local detachment of the Commemorative Air Force, a non-profit association dedicated to American military aviation. Its flying N2S-5 Stearman, built in Wichita in 1943, trained Navy pilots at Corpus Christi, was later converted for crop dusting, crashed in the Oquirrh Mountains and flew again on 17 August 1988 after restoration in Twin Falls, Idaho. A privately owned T-6 Texan is kept in the hangar.
The museum honors regional aviation pioneers and their roles in military flying through its exhibits. Visitors learn personal stories of pilots from this area who shaped aviation history.
The museum is closed, except by special arrangement, from October 31 to May 1 each year, so visits fit between spring and autumn. It sits at Russ McDonald Field, Heber City Municipal Airport. The Stearman N1387V appears at local airshows and gives rides to the public, and the privately owned T-6 Texan performs flyovers in the wider area.
Visitors can watch ongoing restoration work on vintage warbirds, offering a rare look at how these machines are kept flying. The hands-on work in the workshop shows the effort required to maintain aircraft that are decades old.
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