Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting

The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting is an aviation museum located at the South Big Horn County Airport in Greybull, Wyoming focused on the history of aerial firefighting.

History
Hawkins and Powers Aviation was founded at the airport in 1969 as an aerial firefighting outfit. It maintained a large collection of stored airtankers remained as a boneyard at the airport and, over time, a number of the airframes were towed to the south side of the airport and a small museum was opened in 1992. The museum was initially established five years prior, when the company became embroiled in the U.S. Forest Service airtanker scandal, in which former U.S. military aircraft that were allegedly to go to the Forest Service in exchange for older retired military aircraft instead ended up in the hands of private companies. This was followed by a pair of accidents which led to the grounding of their fleet and the company was sold in 2006.

Exhibits


Exhibits include a memorial to the flight crews killed in the 2002 airtanker crashes.

Collection



 * Aero Commander 500
 * Beechcraft C-45F Expeditor
 * Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
 * Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer
 * Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar
 * Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar
 * Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune