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Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum south of Tillamook, Oregon, at Tillamook Airport in the United States. The museum is housed in a former military blimp hangar, called "Hangar B", which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world.〔Larsen, Jeff (March 21, 2002). (Short Trips: Slice of History and a Wedge of Cheese ) ''Seattle Post-Intelligencer''. Retrieved 2008-04-24〕 Constructed by the US Navy in 1942 during World War II for Naval Air Station Tillamook, the hangar building housing the aircraft is long and wide, giving it over of area. It stands at tall. The doors weigh each and are tall. Hangar "B" is one of two that were built on the site originally, Hangar "A" was destroyed by fire in August,1992.〔(Tillamook Air Museum: Building )〕〔(U.S. Naval Air Station Dirigible Hangars )〕 ''USA Today'' described the Tillamook Air Museum in 2004 as "one of the country's top private World War II aircraft collections".〔(''10 great places to remember World War II'' ) ''USA Today'' (June 4, 2004). Retrieved 2014-09-27.〕 However, in April 2013, the museum announced that the part of its collection owned by Jack Erickson would be moving from Tillamook to Madras, Oregon, and all of the World War II aircraft had been removed by September 2014. In November 2014, the owners of Hangar B, the Port Of Tillamook Bay, announced that they would continue operation of the Tillamook Air Museum with the remaining collection. The museum's lease on the hangar extends to January 2016. A portion of the blimp hangar is now leased by the Hillsboro, Oregon-based American Blimp Corporation, which is the largest manufacturer of blimps in the United States. ==Collections== The museum features a collection of more than 15 aircraft. This is a listing of some of the more notable: * Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy * Douglas A-4B Skyhawk * Fairchild GK-1 * Grumman F-14A Tomcat * A-7 Corsair ll * Kaman HTK -1 Helicopter * Bell Helicopter * Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 * Nord 1101 * Cessna 180 (One of two light aircraft that were the first to land on the North Pole) * Erco Ercoupe 415C * Quickie Homebuilt Aircraft * Learjet 24 * Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17F/Lim 5 * A-26 Invader * Fouga Magister * Jet Provost The Museum also features an exhibit hall with a large collection of rare historical wartime and aviation themed artifacts including pieces of the great German airship the Hindenburg, a WWII Luftwaffe flight jacket and a WW II Japanese Army Winter flight suit. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tillamook Air Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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