Tillamook Air Museum
Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum south of Tillamook, Oregon in the United States. The museum is housed in a former US Navy blimp hangar, called Hangar B, which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world.
Tillamook Air Museum Aug 2019
The last place we visited was the air museum at United States Naval Air Station Tillamook (1942-1948). It’s home to the largest free-standing, clear-span wooden structure in the world. Covering more than seven acres, the building is 1,072 feet long, 296 feet wide, and towers more than 15 stories high. NAS Tillamook stationed blimps during 1943-1945. The blimps were used to watch over ports in Oregon and Washington and shipping lanes from California to the San Juan Islands, a 500-mile radius. These Lighter-than-Air (LTA) ships could stay aloft 48 hours, cruise at 50-67 knots, and cover 13,000 square miles of water during a day’s shift. This hanger is huge! They not only have the museum inside with 40-50 planes, but one end is used for boat, trailer and motorhome storage. The pictures are of a MiG-15 is a jet fighter aircraft developed for the Soviet Union. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful jet fighters to incorporate swept wings to achieve high transonic speeds. The other is one of two mini guppy’s that were built. Erickson Air Crane used the Mini Guppy to haul heavy equipment until 1995 and is the only surviving mini guppy.
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In 1942, the U.S. Navy began construction of 17 wooden hangars around the U.S. coastlines to house the K-class blimps being used for antisubmarine coast patrol and convoy escort. Two of these hangars were built at Naval Air Station Tillamook. They were commissioned in December 1942 and served the Oregon-Washington coastal area.
Construction of the two hangars was rushed to completion. Hangar B was the first one built and was completed in August of 1943. Hangar A (which was destroyed in a 1992 fire) was completed in only 27-days!
Stationed at NAS Tillamook was Squadron ZP-33 with a complement of 8 K-ships. The K-ships were 252-feet long and filled with 425,000 cubic feet of helium. With a range of 2,000-miles and an ability to stay aloft for three-days, they were well suited for coastal patrol and convoy escort. Naval Air Station Tillamook was decommissioned in 1948.
Since 1994, the remaining hangar has been home to one of the finest collections of privately owned WW II flying aircraft in the nation and has the distinction of being the largest wooden structure in the world!
HANGAR B
Length 1,072 feet
Height 192 feet (over 15 stories)
Width 296 feet
Area Over 7 acres
Doors 120 feet high (180 tons total) / 220 feet wide openings
Catwalks Two catwalks, each 137 feet above the hangar deck
Tillamook Air Museum - Tillamook Oregon
I got the opportunity to visit the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook Oregon. This was a pretty interesting place to visit, the building was huge and very cold. I had expected to see more planes for how large the building was, but they didnt have tones of planes. They also had a lot of other items outside of planes. Should have been more a military museum or something.
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A walking tour of the Tillamook Air Museum Part 1
Tillamook Air Museum is an aviation museum south of Tillamook, Oregon in the United States. The museum is housed in a former US Navy blimp hangar, called Hangar B, which is the largest clear-span wooden structure in the world.
Constructed by the US Navy in 1942 during World War II for Naval Air Station Tillamook, the hangar building housing the aircraft is 1,072 feet long and 296 feet wide, giving it over 7 acres of area. It stands at 192 feet tall. The doors weigh 30 short tons each and are 120 feet tall. Hangar B is one of two that were built on the site originally, Hangar A was destroyed by fire in August of 1992.
Aircraft featured in this video: F-14A Tomcat, A-7 Corsair 2, C-27A Spartan, Mig-17/Lim 5, Convair 880 forward fuselage (only partly shown in video), Chris-Teena Mini Coupe, ERCO Ercoupe 415C, Cvjetkovic CA-65 Skyfly Homebuilt, Fairchild GK-1, Nord 1101 Noralpha, Cessna 180F Skywagon (One of two light aircraft that were the first to land on the North Pole), Brown Starlite Homebuilt
If you are ever in the Tillamook area I highly recommend you visit this museum go to their website for all of the information you need:
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Tillamook Air Museum - Tillamook, OR
Tillamook Air Museum is located in Tillamook, Oregon features an incredible collection of over 30 magnificently restored warbirds including a P-38 Lightning, F4U-Corsair, P51-Mustang, PBY Catalina and SBD Dauntless dive bomber, all housed within a WWII blimp hangar - the largest wooden structure in the world. Also at the museum is an Exhibit Hall with rare wartime and aviation artifacts.
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Grant's Getaways: Tillamook Air Museum
From many miles away, the gargantuan size draws visitors near. Is it the eleven acres of arched roof? Perhaps the hundred-foot-tall letters boldly printed on its side? Or maybe it's the a-4 jet perched on a pole to signal that they've arrived? Regardless of how they find it, size is: Massive! Enormous! Colossal! Those exclamations and more are on everyone's lips when they are face to face with the Tillamook Air Museum just off U.S Highway 101.
Tillamook Air Museum
One of my visits to the Tillamook Air Museum in Tillamook, OR. This old WWII era blimp hangar is one of the largest wooden structures in the world. Most of the old railroad equipment outside is out of service. The Port Of Tillamook Bay railroad company used to operate lumber trains years ago, until the tracks through the Coast range connecting the coast and Hillsboro, OR were washed out. The tracks on the coastline are still in use by the Oregon Coast Scenic Railroad.
Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon
Air Museum in Tillamook, Oregon
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USA 2013 - 25th October - Cannon Beach to Portland Via Tillamook Air Museum
USA 2013 - 25th October - Cannon Beach to Portland Via Tillamook Air Museum
Tillamook Air Museum / Air Show and Car Show
Historical Aviation Guild visits the Tillamook Air Museum
Tillamook To Portland
A drive from Tillamook, Oregon to Portland, Oregon. 62 miles in 4:23 minutes...or about 800 miles per hour.
Hwy 6 Portland to Tillamook Oregon 2
TILLAMOOK FOREST CENTER
A Pacific University Media Arts Production
Oregon Miniguppy at Tillamook Air Museum Stratocruiser (Model 377)
After World War II was over, Boeing re-entered the commercial market with a new long-range airliner, the. It was the first Boeing commercial transport since the Stratoliner and, like its military counterpart, the C-97, was based on the B-29 bomber. It possessed all the speed and technical improvements available to bombers at the end of the war.
The Stratocruiser set a new standard for luxurious air travel with its tastefully decorated extra-wide passenger cabin and gold-appointed dressing rooms. A circular staircase led to a lower-deck beverage lounge, and flight attendants prepared hot meals for 50 to 100 people in a state-of-the-art galley. As a sleeper, the Stratocruiser was equipped with 28 upper-and-lower bunk units.
Pan American placed the first order for 20 Stratocruisers, worth $24 million, and they began service between San Francisco, Calif., and Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1949. Boeing built 56 Stratocruisers between 1947 and 1950, and they marked the company's first significant success selling passenger planes to airlines in other countries.
During the early 1960s, Aero Space Lines ballooned the Stratocruiser's fuselage into a whale-like shape to carry spacecraft sections. Nine of the variants were assembled. The first was called the Pregnant Guppy, followed by five larger Superguppies and three smaller Miniguppies. In the process, one of the most elegant airplanes in the sky became one of the ugliest. -- from the Boeing website.
First flight: July 8, 1947
Model number: 377
Classification: Commercial transport
Span: 141 feet 3 inches
Length: 110 feet 4 inches
Gross weight: 145,000 pounds
Top speed: 375 mph
Cruising speed: 300 mph
Range: 4,600 miles
Ceiling: More than 33,000 feet
Power: Four 3,500-horsepower P&W R-4360 Wasp Major engines
Accommodation: 55 to 100 passengers and attendants
Tillamook Landing and Taxi to Air Museum
Landing on runway 1 at KTMK and taxi to the Air Museum in a WWII blimp hangar. Notice the elk grazing in the field just before landing (about 1:17).
Tillamook NAVAL AIR MUSEUM, Oregon
This museum is located about 10 min away from the Tillamook downtown, and about 25 min from the Oceanside.. Great place to learn about the history, and to check out the planes, jets, and helicopters!
Music: Sand box- Jingle by Scott Holmes
FLIGHT OVER TILLAMOOK
Our flight over Tillamook, Netarts, Oceanside and Cape Mears (Oregon) in a fully restored 1928 Travel Air open cockpit biplane.
Bay Ocean Exhibit
Stop by the Tillamook County Pioneer Museum for their latest exhibit on Bay Ocean.
Feldshaw Road, Tillamook, Or
11/28/13 Thanksgiving day heading down Feldshaw road looking for firewood.