Trip to Museum: March Field Air Museum

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The March Field Air Museum is an aviation museum near Moreno Valley and Riverside, California, adjacent to March Air Reserve Base.

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Origins

The museum was founded in 1979 as March Air Force Base Museum. Originally operated by the Air Force, the museum's operation was transferred to a nonprofit organization in 1996.

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Exhibits

Aircraft

The museum has over 70 aircraft on display. Some of the more notable aircraft include:

A Lockheed P-38L Lightning replica. (The prototype XP-38 first flew on January 27, 1939 from March Field.)
A Boeing B-29A Superfortress Three Feathers III that flew 11 combat missions during World War II.
A Boeing KC-97L Stratofreighter.
A Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird. This aircraft appeared in the movie Space Cowboys (2000).
A Boeing B-52D Stratofortress that flew 175 combat missions in the Vietnam War.
A Northrop YA-9A, designed to the same requirements as the A-10 Warthog. This aircraft is the only one of its kind on display in the world.
A Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (44-6393), CP-627, CP-891
Three F-4 Phantoms
An F-14 Tomcat
A Vultee BT-13 Valiant painted to replicate an Aichi D3A Val Dive Bomber for the 1970 movie Tora! Tora! Tora!.
An F-86 Sabre
A MiG-15
A MiG-21
A MiG-23
An F-100 Super Sabre
The sole Sauser P6E Replica

Indoor Exhibits

Indoor displays include:

A Flight Simulator
A section of a Boeing B-47 cockpit which was used in the filming of the movie Strategic Air Command starring Jimmy Stewart.
A movie played on a regular recurring schedule
A Bell P-59 Airacomet
A German 30mm cannon and jet engines
Missile and bomb cross-sections

Memorials

A memorial to War dogs.
Rep. Calvert proposed, in the Distinguished Flying Cross National Memorial Act (H.R. 330; 113th Congress), that a memorial in honor of current and former members of the Armed Forces who have been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross be created here.

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