Swift Museum

The Swift Museum is an aviation museum located at the McMinn County Airport in Athens, Tennessee.

Background
The Swift Museum Foundation was established by Charlie Nelson in 1968. In the early 1980s it purchased the Globe Swift type certificate and production tooling from Univair.

It acquired the first production Swift in 2007.

Museum construction
The foundation announced plans for a 10,000 sqft hangar in April 2008. This would allow the museum to consolidate aircraft it had stored in multiple buildings around the airport. After five years, it broke ground on the first phase, a 3,200 sqft office and parts storage building, in March 2013 and completed it later that year.

After signing a new lease with the airport that expanded the size of its parcel in 2015, it opened the second phase, a 6,400 sqft hangar, the following year.

The third phase, a 3,200 sqft expansion for additional parts, was finished in time for the 50th anniversary of the foundation in October 2018. In the meantime, the museum had worked with AirCorps Library to have its collection of drawings and manuals digitized.

The sole LoPresti Fury was donated to the museum in 2019.

Collection

 * Globe GC-1A Swift
 * Globe GC-1B Swift
 * Johnson Rocket 125
 * Temco T-35 Buckaroo
 * Temco T-35 Buckaroo

Events
The museum holds an annual fly-in.