Quonset Air Museum Roof

An extensive archive of books magazines manuals photos documents and blueprints was preserved within the quonset air museum.

Quonset air museum roof.

The quonset air museum was formally established in 1992 by a group of dedicated aviation enthusiasts and for many years it was a popular rhode island tourist destination. They had the room fall in on them a while back and so i could not bring friends here like before. The quonset air museum resides in a wwii airplane hangar that was once part of the naval air station quonset point. As finally developed the quonset hut required less shipping space than did tents with wood floors and frames when equal numbers of men were to be accommodated.

The museum was located in a wwii era airplane hangar at 483 eccleston avenue north kingstown rhode island in the quonset business park on land that was formerly part of. No one was in the building at the time. The quonset air museum was an aerospace museum located at quonset point air national guard station in north kingstown rhode island. Many of the aircraft and artifacts it housed such as a tb avenger once flown by former u s.

Bush in world war ii and an f 14 tomcat the camera plane used to film the movie top gun were major attractions both at the museum itself and the annual. The museum s collection included military vehicles missiles aircraft and over 5000 smaller aviation artifacts. Quonset air museum was established in 1992 by then gov. Museum huts 1 6 and 8 are 1950 vintage huts of this final design.

They have great airplanes and vintage planes. A section of roof collapsed saturday at an unused storage and work area at the quonset air museum according to its executive director david payne. An old military plane was demolished tuesday at a closed museum in quonset a lockheed p2v neptune was crushed and put in dumpsters the 91 foot long post world war 2 navy aircraft had been part of. A quonset hut being put in place at the 598th engineer base depot in japan post world war ii.

Days later officials condemned the building. The hangar itself is the last wwii hangar standing that was used to paint aircraft and ventilation grates and catch basins on the floor are still in place. The quonset air museum is located in north kingston rhode island.