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The Aerospace Museum of California is an aviatizon museum located in North Highlands, California on the grounds of the former McClellan Air Force Base. It features displays of authentic military and civilian aircraft as well as space vehicle replicas. It preserves the history and mission of this former base as well as those of neighboring bases like Beale (active) and Mather (closed) Air Force Bases. McClellan Air Force Base closed in 2001 and became McClellan Airfield, a civil aviation airport.

History
The museum was originally established as the McClellan Aviation Museum in 1986. It was chartered by the National Museum of the United States Air Force. In 2001 it incorporated as a non-profit organization. In 2005 its name was changed to the Aerospace Museum of California. In 2004 the museum moved to 3200 Freedom Park Drive, McClellan Park and in February 2007 opened its new 35000 sqft Hardie Setzer Pavilion enabling some of the aircraft to be displayed indoors.

Exhibits
The museum has over 40 aircraft in its collection from a fully restored Fairchild PT-19 to one of the last Grumman F-14D Tomcat retired from U.S. Navy service in 2006. In addition to aircraft, the collection includes many other historic artifacts relating to Sacramento's aerospace heritage. It also houses an extensive collection of historic aircraft engines. These include examples ranging from a World War I-era Gnome and Rhone rotary piston engines, large radial piston engines, and jet engines. Jet engines normally in the exhibit hall are GE I-16 (1940, Whittle design), J-57 #35 (1952), and J-58 “turbo-ramjet”, used on the SR-71 Blackbird Mach 3+ spyplane. The museum features an art gallery containing more than 50 original works, many from the Air Force Art Collection and the United States Coast Guard Art Collection.

Engines on Display
• Hall-Scott A-7

• Curtiss OX-5

• Hispano-Suiza 8

• Le Rhône 9C

• Gnome Monosoupape 9N

• Hall-Scott A-7

• Lawrance A-3

• Wright R-790 Whirlwind

• Wright R-795-11 (J-6) Whirlwind

• Henderson 4, motorcycle engine conversion

• Aeronca E-113

• Franklin O-150 (4AC-150)

• Jacobs R-755

• Allison V-3420

• Allison V-1710-51

• Westinghouse J34

• General Electric J31

• Pratt & Whitney J57 (JT3C)

• Bristol Centaurus mk. 175

• Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp

• 2 each Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major one complete, one cutaway

Aircraft on Display
• Beech UC-45J “Expiditer”

• Boeing 727

• Convair F-102A Delta Dagger

• Convair F-106A Delta Dart

• Convair VC-131D Samaritan

• Douglad A-1E Skyraider

• Douglad C-53 Skytrooper

• Douglas C-54D Skymaster

• Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II

• Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II (Warthog)

• Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar

• General Dynamics FB-111A Aardvark

• Grumman F-14D Super Tomcat

• Grumman HU-16B Albatross

• Grumman TS-2A Tracker

• Lockheed EC-121D Warning Star

• Lockheed F-80B Shooting Star

• Lockheed F-104B Starfighter

• Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star or T-Bird

• McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II

• McDonnell F-101B Voodoo

• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17PF Fresco E

• Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F Fishbed

• North American F-86L Dog Sabre

• North American F-86F Sabre

• North American F-100D Super Sabre

• North American T-6G Texan

• North American T-28B Trojan

• North American T-39A Sabreline

• Piasecki CH-21C Workhorse

• Pitts Special S-1C

• Republic F-84F Thunderstreak

• Republic F-105D Thunderchief (Thud)

• Sikorsky CH-3E Jolly Green Giant

• Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper

• Vought A-7D Corsair II

Flight Zone
The Aerospace Museum of California has 10 a state of the art, STEM, realistic flight simulators. Where you can learn to fly under the instruction of experienced volunteer flight instructors.