| Florida Military Aviation Museum |
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- Description
- The Florida Military Aviation Museum is a
non-profit, tax exempt, educationally oriented
organization chartered by the state if Florida
and dedicated to the preservation of aircraft,
vehicles, and artifacts of our military services.
We are particularly interested in promoting
Florida's role in military aviation. To this end,
we attempt to aquire aircraft that were either
stationed in Florida or flown by Floridians.
All work is done by volunteers and is supported by the nominal admission fees, memberships, retail sales and donations.
The museum is currently located at 16055 Fairchild Dr. at the St. Petersburg - Clearwater International Airport. Due to airport expansion, the collection will be moved in October or November to a new location, most likely the former Ringling Circus site at the airport in Venice, Florida. We will update this page upon completion of the move.
Family and student memberships are available and volunteers are welcome.
Reviews / Comments by our visitors
| Pete Hodgdon , Florida |  The Florida Military Aviation Museum came apart at the seams....There is nothing left of it....The aircraft at Wachula, Fla. in a field are all but gone...Most went to Maps Museum in Ohio...Its a shame how it all ended, when they were forced out of Clearwater, Fla. There P-2V was disgraced, taken apart and sunk off Dunedin Fla. as a so called artificial reef... I tried to get the museum to move to Venice, Fla., but politics stepped in and that was the end of it... Three months ago I visited the site in Wachula, and there a bits and pieces left of 2 aircraft but thats it. June 22, 2008 06/22/2008 @ 16:09 [ref: 8125] |
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| Pawel Mankowski Tampa, Florida | The two gentlemen, Grady Lisk and Ken Ramsy had a chance of taking few pictures of what is left of the aircraft near Ft. Meade, Fl. If you did, could you share. mankowskip@hotmail.com Thank you. 06/13/2007 @ 07:09 [ref: 5967] |
| Ken Ramsay Solon, Ohio | Grady A. Lisk is correct. The aricraft were moved (dumped) in a field off of Hwy 17 south of Ft. Meade FL. Most have been move to the MAPS Air Museum, Akron Ohio to be restored for museum display. The A-4, Navy F-4, Beachcraft, Mohawk, Sikorsky and a Hawk missle battery are still at the site. If you visit watch out for snakes, fire ants and an occasional alligator. 05/06/2007 @ 16:56 [ref: 5906] |
| Norm DeRoche St Pete Fl., Florida | We have had many calls from individuals who are not qualified museums. Please do not call about aircraft until you recieve written authorization from the military museum department. Any questions about this call Norm at 727 251 0033 04/15/2007 @ 11:18 [ref: 5830] |
| Paul Sutcliffe Dobson, North Carolina |  The Museum at the St.Pete-Clearwater airport was started by a group called Yesterdays Air Force Florida Wing in 1979 I was a charter member and an original member of the board. We had some good aircraft when we first started. A flyable B-25 that Jimmy Doolitle had autographed at Mcdill AFB. It was flown to England for the filming of Hanover Street and later sold in England. A P-47 that came to us on a flat bed trailer. It wsas fully restored and flown out to Wright-Paterson.The F-102 was a static display on a pedistal in Orlando. The B-17 was flown from Kansas then down the Mississippi. Took a left turn at New Orleans and followed the coast line. One of our members in his SNJ escourted him from Indian River,Fl. to the airport where it landed. The only navigational instruments was a altimeter and a magnatic compass,no radio. I had the pleasure of guideing him to our site and parking him. We completly restored that bird right down to 10 50 cal. machine guns. I left in 1986 and have no further information about the aircraft or Yesterdays Air Force. Anyone out there with further information please let me know. Paul Sutcliffe 02/23/2007 @ 19:22 [ref: 5643] |
| Norman DeRoche Saint Petersburg, Florida | The Fl. Military Aviation Museum is still in existence and is located in Wauchula Fl. Unfotunately the aircraft are not available for display at this time. We are downsizing and would like to find new homes for many of these aircraft. If you represent a qualified museum please call Bud at 1 863 773 9700 10/31/2006 @ 11:51 [ref: 5386] |
| grady a.lisk jr. sebring, Florida | i was very lucky to get by the museum in 2000, there was only a few aircraft in the fenced in area ,the f-4 was a very early version of the phantom and the f-105 was in pretty good shape, they had a early p2 neptune that was the same model like the turtle at nasm in pensacola fl. she is now a artifical reef that was lost during the hurricanes of 2004 ,i do not think they every found her again. ,i also traveled to wachula and photographed what was taken therein late 2000 ,early 2001 ,not much there now ,i had hear from the locals that they moved some of the aircraft up to ft. meade along hwy 17 on the right side if you are heading north ,it is either just before or after a bridge behind a group of trees. good luck and if you want to try and find these aircraft good luck in your ventures. only if you are in the 50 mile radius would it be worth while ,coming from a warbird photographer. good luck 10/07/2006 @ 12:54 [ref: 5320] |
| Steve , Florida | If this museum no longer exists, would all of you who keep giving it five starts knock it off -- AND would the people who maintain this database take it off! Makes the whole thing kinda pointless to have things like this on here! 09/16/2006 @ 04:08 [ref: 5264] |
| Steve , Florida | If this museum no longer exists, would all of you who keep giving it five starts knock it off -- AND would the people who maintain this database take it off! Makes the whole thing kinda pointless to have things like this on here! 09/16/2006 @ 04:08 [ref: 5263] |
Last updated: 02/14/00.
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