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financially viable: that year, its monthly profits were roughly $ 5,000, compared to monthly expenses of around $ 7,000. Also in 2014, the museum only had one paid employee, with the remainder of its personnel consisting entirely of volunteers. According to board member Russell Smith, the museum's number of annual visitors shrunk from approximately 26,000 to 6,000 after the opening of
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The museum was originally established in 1986 as the Arkansas Air Museum. In 2012, it merged with the Ozark Military Museum housed next door into the Arkansas Air & Military Museum. In 2014, its board of directors noted that a decrease in visitors had resulted in the museum struggling to stay
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The Arkansas Air & Military Museum's collection of aircraft ranges from the 1920s to the modern era, including many Golden Age racing aircraft, as well as military aircraft dating from
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The wooden hangar in which the Arkansas Air & Military Museum is housed is one of the few surviving such buildings from the 1940s and is listed on the
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Additionally, the museum features biographical exhibits on notable Arkansan aviators, including Commander
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In addition to aircraft, the museum also displays a variety of aviation engines, including a
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US Army cargo helicopter also known as the "Workhorse" and nicknamed "The Flying Banana"
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automobile, military vehicles (including ambulances, jeeps, trucks, and a British
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executive jet once the world's only aerobatic Lear Jet flown by
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replaced Drake Field as the region's principal airport in 1998.
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Exterior of the Arkansas Air & Military Museum
Arkansas Air & Military Museum is located in Arkansas
Drake Field
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Coordinates
36°00′26″N 94°10′23″W / 36.007136°N 94.172987°W / 36.007136; -94.172987
Aviation
military museum
www.arkansasairandmilitary.com
aviation
military museum
Drake Field
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Arkansas
Interstate 540
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport
Arkansas Register of Historic Places
World War I
World War II
Vietnam War
Bell AH-1S Cobra
Bell UH-1H Huey
Boeing-Stearman NS2S
Curtiss-Wright CW-1 Junior
Dassault Falcon 20
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk
Ercoupe 415C
Walmart
Sam Walton
Howard DGA-11

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