Quonset Air Museum Roof

In march 2014 snow and ice caused part of the roof to collapse in the world war ii era hangar that housed the museum near quonset state airport.

Quonset air museum roof.

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. 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. Bruce sundlun to help preserve the state s aviation heritage. Museum huts 1 6 and 8 are 1950 vintage huts of this final design.

Quonset air museum was established in 1992 by then gov. The quonset air museum resides in a wwii airplane hangar that was once part of the naval air station quonset point. Many of the aircraft and artifacts it housed such as a tb avenger once flown by former u s. They had the room fall in on them a while back and so i could not bring friends here like before.

They have great airplanes and vintage planes. A quonset hut being put in place at the 598th engineer base depot in japan post world war ii. The quonset air museum was an aerospace museum located at quonset point air national guard station in north kingstown rhode island. 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.

An extensive archive of books magazines manuals photos documents and blueprints was preserved within the quonset air museum. 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. The museum was located in a wwii era airplane hangar at 483 eccleston avenue north kingstown rhode island in the quonset business park on land that was formerly part of. 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.

The museum s collection included military vehicles missiles aircraft and over 5000 smaller aviation artifacts. The quonset air museum is located in north kingston rhode island. 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.