The Pacific Aviation Museum is located on Ford Island, located in the middle of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.^[1]

A6M2 Zero painted as one of the Pearl Harbor attackers

The museum site occupies 16 acres (65,000 m²) of the 440-acre (1.8 km²) island. It includes three historic hangars and an air traffic control tower.

F4F3 Wildcat on display representing Cactus Air during the Battle of Guadalcanal

On December 7, 2006, one of four phases of the museum opened Hangar 37 to the public. The hangar's 42,442 square feet (3,943 m²) of space focus on the attack on Pearl Harbor through the Battle of Guadalcanal and includes a display of Jimmy Doolittle's bomber raid on Tokyo, Japan. Future phases of the museum will be built in other nearby hangars and focus on the Korean War, Vietnam War, and Cold War.

One of the principal Pearl Harbor Historic Sites, the interactive museum is located near the Battleship Missouri and the new USS Oklahoma Memorial in the hangars of historic Ford Island which were attacked by the Imperial Japanese Navy on December 7, 1941, the beginning of World War II in the Pacific.

Visitors can purchase tickets online at www.pacificaviationmuseum.org or at the USS Bowfin Submarine Park ticket office located next to the USS Arizona Memorial Museum now part of the new World War II Valor in the Pacific Monument by the National Park Service and ride the shuttle bus to Ford Island and view the airfield, control tower, and the museum that occupies World War II hangars that still bears the scars of the Pearl Harbor attack.

Aircraft, such as a Japanese Zero Grumman Wildcat, and the Stearman in which former President George H. W. Bush soloed as the war’s youngest aviator, illustrate how aviation helped stem the war. Visitors can view historic videos, including a movie of the beginning of the war. The museum features a gift shop, 1940s-themed Laniakea Cafe, and combat flight simulators in which guests can virtually fight the Battle of Guadalcanal in either an American or Japanese plane.

Pacific Aviation Museum’s mission is to develop and maintain an internationally recognized aviation museum, which educates young and old alike, honors aviators and the support personnel who defended freedom in the Pacific Region, and is dedicated to preserving Pacific aviation history.

The museum has recently announced its national capital campaign for the restoration of two additional standing hangars and the landmark red and white icon control tower. Restoration of these structures will house the increasing aircraft collection includes the recently arrived Hawaii Air National Guard's fastest F-15 Screaming Eagle and the Navy's last flown Grumman F-14 Tomcat in the service of our nation.

Pacific Aviation Museum is open 9am to 5pm daily and is accessed by air conditioned shuttle buses that leave the USS Bowfin Submarine Park at Pearl Harbor every 15 minutes. Phone (808) 441-1000

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[edit] External links

• Official site
• More on Museum

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