Mid-Atlantic Air Museum

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Vintage Soviet Yak-9 on takeoff at the 2002 MAAM WWII Weekend Air Show.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM) is membership supported museum and aircraft restoration facility located at the Carl A. Spaatz Field, the regional airport serving Reading, Pennsylvania. The museum, founded by Russ Strine, the current President, collects and actively restores historic war planes and classic airliners as well as rare civilian and military aircraft. Many of the museum's historic aircraft are often seen on the airshow circuit.

The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum has hosted the “World War II Weekend Air Show” annually since 1990. The World War II Weekend is generally scheduled to coincide with the Memorial Day (USA) celebrations with an attendance approaching 100,000 people. According to the editors of Military Vehicle Magazine the air show is “The largest and the best WWII reenactment in the nation – bar none”.

It also hosts the “Planes, Trains & Automobiles Transportation Show”, generally held in the fall.

This is a picture of the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum from 2,500 feet.

The museum provides speakers and other educational services to the surrounding community as well as offering rides in their vintage SNJ (Navy version of the AT-6 “Texan” WWII military trainer).

It has also embarked on an ambitious project to restore its P-61 Black Widow to flying condition. Some fundraising efforts are via the sale of a large-scale radio controlled model of the P-61 manufactured and provided by Vietnam-based Vinh Quang Model.

[edit] Museum inventory

Year	Manufacturer	Model
1928	Elias	EC1 Aerocoupe
1929	Brunner-Winkle	Bird "A"
1931	American	Eaglet
1933	Heath	CNA-40 Midwing
1933	Pietenpol	Air Camper
1935	Kellett	KD-1 Autogiro
1936	Aeronca	C3 Master
1936	Taylor (Piper)	J2 Cub
1937	Aeronca	Model "K"
1937	Arrow	Sport F
1937	Fairchild	24-G Deluxe
1937	Taylor Young	Model "A"
1939	Troyer	VX
1940	Fairchild	PT-19 Cornell (M-62)
1941	Naval Aircraft Factory	N3N-3 Yellow Peril
1941	Piper	NE-1 Cub
1942	Boeing	N2S3 Kaydett (B-75N)
1942	Fairchild	PT-26 Cornell (M-62A)
1942	Vultee	BT-13A Valient
1943	Cessna	UC-75 Bobcat (T-50)
1943	North American	B-25J Mitchell
1943	North American	SNJ-4B Texan (AT-6; T-6)
1944	Northrop	P-61B Black Widow
1945	Douglas	R4D-6 Skytrain (C-47)
1946	Auster	MKV J/1 Autocrat
1946	Commonwealth	185 Skyranger
1946	Republic	F-84B Thunderjet
1947	Republic	RC-3 Seabee
1950	ERCO	415G Ercoupe
1950	Piper	PA-22 Tripacer
1951	North American	F-86F Saber
1952	Martin	4-0-4 Silver Falcon
1953	Fairchild	C-119F Flying Boxcar
1953	Piasecki	H-21B Shawnee
1953	Piper	L-21B Grasshopper
1957	Vickers Armstrong	745D Viscount
1957	Lockheed	SP-2-H Neptune (P2V-7S)
1958	Sikorsky	UH-34D Seahorse
1959	Hawker	Mk 58A Hunter
1961	Beechcraft	G-18S Super
1961	Piper	PA-22-150 Caribbean
1962	Convair	CV-580 Turbo-prop
1962	Ried	Flying Submarine (Prototype)
1962	Sikorsky	HH-52A Seaguard
1964	Custer	CCW-5 Channelwing
1970	Rutan	Varieze
1972	Piper	PA-34-200 Seneca
1972	Piper	PA-23-250 Aztec
1977	Cessna	150M Commander
1978	Piper	PA-38-112 Tomahawk
1983	American Aerolites	Double Eagle