Mid-Atlantic Air Museum

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Vintage Soviet Yak-9 on takeoff at the 2002 MAAM WWII Weekend Air Show.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM) is membership supported museum and aircraft restoration facility located at the Carl A. Spaatz Field, the regional airport serving Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum, founded by Russ Strine, the current President, collects and actively restores historic war planes and classic airliners as well as rare civilian and military aircraft. Many of the museum's historic aircraft are often seen on the airshow circuit.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum has hosted the “World War II Weekend Air Show” annually since 1990. The World War II Weekend is generally scheduled to coincide with 6 June, with an attendance approaching 100,000 people. According to the editors of Military Vehicle Magazine the air show is “The largest and the best WWII reenactment in the nation — bar none”.

The museum offers rides in their vintage North American SNJ (Navy version of the AT-6 “Texan” WWII military trainer) and in a Stearman Biplane on the second Saturday of the month from May through October excluding the month of June,

It has also embarked on an ambitious project to restore its Northrop P-61B-1-NO Black Widow, recovered from New Guinea in 1989, to flying condition.

Mid Atlantic Air Museum also sells aircraft for MS Flight Simulator of some of their restored aircraft such as the B-25, C-47 and TBM Avenger.

Museum inventory

Year Manufacturer Model
1928 Elias EC-1 Aircoupe
1929 Brunner-Winkle Bird "A"
1931 American Eagle Eaglet
1933 Heath CNA-40 Midwing
1933 Pietenpol Air Camper
1935 Kellett
1936 Aeronca C3 Master
1936 Taylor (Piper) J-2 Cub
1937 Aeronca Model "K"
1937 Arrow Sport F
1937 Fairchild 24-G Deluxe
1937 Taylor Young Model "A"
1939 Troyer VX
1940 Fairchild PT-19 Cornell (M-62)
1941 Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
1941 Piper NE-1 Cub
1942 Boeing N2S-3 Kaydett (B-75N)
1942 Fairchild PT-26 Cornell (M-62A)
1942 Vultee BT-13A Valiant
1943 Cessna UC-78 Bobcat (T-50)
1943 North American B-25J Mitchell
1943 North American SNJ-4B Texan (AT-6; T-6)
1944 Northrop P-61B Black Widow
1945 Douglas R4D-6 Skytrain (C-47)
1945 Grumman TBM-3E Avenger (TBF)
1946 Auster Mk.V J/1 Autocrat
1946 Commonwealth 185 Skyranger
1946 Republic F-84B Thunderjet
1947 Republic RC-3 Seabee
1950 ERCO 415G Ercoupe
1950 Piper PA-22 Tripacer
1951 North American F-86F Sabre
1952 Martin 4-0-4 Silver Falcon
1953 Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar
1953 Piasecki H-21B Shawnee
1953 Piper L-21B Grasshopper
1957 Vickers Armstrong 745D Viscount
1957 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (P2V-7S)
1958 Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse
1961 Beechcraft G-18S Super
1961 Piper PA-22-150 Caribbean
1962 Ried Flying Submarine (Prototype)
1962 Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard
1964 Custer CCW-5 Channelwing
1970 Rutan Varieze
1972 Piper PA-34-200 Seneca
1972 Piper PA-23-250 Aztec
1977 Cessna 150M Commander
1978 Piper PA-38-112 Tomahawk
1983 American Aerolites Double Eagle

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