Quonset Air Museum Roof

A quonset hut being put in place at the 598th engineer base depot in japan post world war ii.

Quonset air museum roof.

They have great airplanes and vintage planes. An old military plane was demolished tuesday at a closed museum in quonset a lockheed p2v neptune was crushed and put in dumpsters the 91 foot long post world war 2 navy aircraft had been part of. They had the room fall in on them a while back and so i could not bring friends here like before. Many of the aircraft and artifacts it housed such as a tb avenger once flown by former u s.

Bush in world war ii and an f 14 tomcat the camera plane used to film the movie top gun were major attractions both at the museum itself and the annual. Days later officials condemned the building. The hangar itself is the last wwii hangar standing that was used to paint aircraft and ventilation grates and catch basins on the floor are still in place. The quonset air museum was an aerospace museum located at quonset point air national guard station in north kingstown rhode island.

The museum s collection included military vehicles missiles aircraft and over 5000 smaller aviation artifacts. No one was in the building at the time. As finally developed the quonset hut required less shipping space than did tents with wood floors and frames when equal numbers of men were to be accommodated. Bruce sundlun to help preserve the state s aviation heritage.

I took a long time for the people who take care of this place like a shrine to get it together so they need all the help they can get. The quonset air museum was formally established in 1992 by a group of dedicated aviation enthusiasts and for many years it was a popular rhode island tourist destination. An extensive archive of books magazines manuals photos documents and blueprints was preserved within the quonset air museum. Museum huts 1 6 and 8 are 1950 vintage huts of this final design.

Quonset air museum was established in 1992 by then gov. A section of roof collapsed saturday at an unused storage and work area at the quonset air museum according to its executive director david payne. The quonset air museum resides in a wwii airplane hangar that was once part of the naval air station quonset point.