MAPS Air Museum


The MAPS Air Museum is an aviation museum in Green, Ohio, United States. Run by the Military Aviation Preservation Society, it is located off SR241 on the west side of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport.
The museum holds more than 50 aircraft, most on loan from the U.S. Air Force or Navy for restoration. It also has two aircraft from the Goodyear Rubber Company. The aircraft are displayed in a former U.S. Air National Guard hangar and on an adjacent tarmac.
Its collection of rare artifacts includes the gondola from the "Spirit of Akron", a Goodyear blimp.
The museum's Gallery of Heroes room holds detailed models and period items from wars. Various displays highlight Pearl Harbor, The Tuskegee Airmen, Rosie the Riveter, and include items on loan from members of the museum and community who fought in wars.
The museum's library maintains and preserves institutional records and collects, preserves, and makes available images, literature, manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, books, and oral histories relating to military history. The library collection is open to the public with admission to the museum. Members may check books out.

History

The museum was founded in 1990. A partnership was formed with David Tallichet, in which planes from his Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation would be leased to museum. The museum opened to the public in 1995. In 2000, the first air show was held at the museum. Although initially housed in the National Guard Maintenance Building on the west side of the airport, the museum was given a lease to use the nearby former Chautauqua Airlines hangar in 2001.
In October 2018, thieves stole helmets, goggles, oxygen masks, helicopter controls and other items from the museum. Two 17-year-olds were arrested on theft charges two weeks later.

Aircraft in collection