This page is a listing of Military, Naval, and Aviation Museums in the northeast US and Canada. I started work on it a couple of years back when I was getting my father's photos from his time on a Destroyer Escort in WWII online. Once I got his photos up on the web, I felt I had to pay a visit to the ship where he used to do volunteer work which was the same type on which he served in WWII, the Destroyer Escort USS Slater in Albany, NY.
After doing the Slater pages I did some more searching and I was astonished to find John Holland's first and second submarines #1 and the Fenian Ram just a few miles away from me in Paterson, NJ. I had no idea it existed and was so close. There really was no good central listing of military museums so I figured I'd just start this for those with an interest in naval, aviation, and military technology and history, as well as the sacrifices our fathers and grandfathers made to help preserve our way of life. I hope these pages pique your interest in these exhibits and the history and veterans they represent and honor. And I hope you visit and support them. If you are local to one of these museums, offer to volunteer. Of course they need your donations but they can use the manpower as well.
Here's a quick run down of the museum's locations and websites:
- Destroyer Escort USS Slater DE-766 Museum -
141 Broadway
Albany, NY 12202
- Battleship USS New Jersey BB-62 Naval Museum - 62 Battleship Place
Camden, NJ 08103
- Aircraft, weapons, army tanks, armored vehicles, small arms, and other military exhibits at the Canadian War Museum -
1 Vimy Place Ottawa, Ontario K1R 1C2
- Holland Submarine Exhibit at The Paterson Museum - 2 Market St. Paterson, NJ 07501
- Battleship USS Massachusetts BB-59, Destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy DD-850, Submarine USS Lionfish SS-298, Soviet Missile Corvette Hiddensee, Elco PT Boat PT-617, and Higgins PT Boat PT-796 at Battleship Cove Naval Museum - Fall River, MA
- Military and civilian aircraft and helicopters at the Canada Aviation Museum -
11 Aviation Parkway
Ottawa, Ontario
K1K 4R3
- Military and civilian biplanes, monoplanes, propeller driven, and jet planes, rockets and other aircraft and aviation related exhibits at the United States Air Force Museum,
1100 Spaatz Street
Wright-Patterson AFB OH 45433
- Submarine USS Nautilus SS-571, Japanese Type A Midget Submarine, and other submarine related exhibits at the US Navy Submarine Force Museum - Groton, CT 0634
- Biplanes, early monoplanes, cars, motorcyles and other aviation related exhibits at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck, NY
12572
- Original WWI Fokker D VII German Biplane at the Brome County Historical Society Museum (No Website), 130 Lakeside, Knowlton Quebec
- Army Tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and other weapons at the US Army Ordinance Museum, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, MD
- USS Barry, DD-933, a Forrest Sherman Class Destroyer is berthed at the US Navy Museum in Washington, DC
- Tanks, APCs, self propelled guns, anti tank guns, artillery, anti aircraft guns and other military vehicles and ordnance at the AAF Tank Museum in Danville, VA
24540
- Original WWII German Jet Messerschmitt Me 262B Swallow and other military jets & helicopters at the Delaware Valley Historical Aircraft Association Museum DVHAA in Willow Grove, PA
- Intelligent Whale Submarine, army tanks, armored vehicles, military jeeps, helcopters, artillery, military jets, and small arms at the Militia Museum of New Jersey in Sea Girt, NJ
08750
- Revolutionary War fort, cannons, and other revolutionary war exhibits and reinactments at the Fort Ticonderoga Museum in Ticonderoga, NY
- Martin 202 airliner, several helicopters, a section of the Hindenberg, Wright aircraft engines, and many aviation exhibits with a connection to New Jersey at the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey in Teterboro, NJ 07608
- P-61 Black Widow Night Fighter undergoing restoration, restored B-25 Mitchell and TBM Avenger, rare Custer Channel Wing, and many other aircraft at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, PA 19605
- TBM Avenger, F-14 Tomcat, Northrop F-5, Bell AH-1 Cobra Gunship, Boeing Stearmans, L-19 Bird Dog, MiG-15 and other aircraft at the Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in Rio Grande, NJ 08242
- C-47 Skytrain, Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress, C-141 Starlifter, KC-97 Stratotanker, C-121 Constellation, C-119 Boxcar, C-54 Skymaster and other transport aircraft at the Air Mobility Command Museum at the Dover Air Force Base, Dover, DE
- Bell Huey Helicopter, Cobra Gunship, V-22 Osprey, Pitcairn Autogyro, and Sikorsky, Bell, Hughes, Piasecki, Robinson, and other helicopters at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester, Pennsylvania
19380
- Spirit of St. Louis sister ship, Grumman Wildcat, Hellcat, Avenger TBM, Panther, Tiger, Intruder, Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, P-47 Thunderbolt, Brewster Buffalo, Lindbergh's Curtiss Jenny, Lunar Module and other aircraft at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, New York
- A-7B Corsair II, Douglas A-4C Skyhawk, F-14, Tomcat, Lockheed F-104G Starfighter, F-86 Sabre Dog, F-4 Phantom II, Sikorsky RH-53D Sea Stallion, German WWII Junkers Jumo 004B Turbojet, and other aircraft and aviation exhibits at the Air Victory Museum in Lumberton, NJ
- North American B-25 Mitchell, P-51 Mustang, TBM Avenger, Consolidated PBY Catalina, P-40 Warhawk, F-105 Thunderchief, F-84 Thunderjet, Cessna Skymaster, SNJ/AT6 Texans, and other aircraft and aviation exhibits at the American Airpower Museum in Farmindale, NY.
- Tanks, Armored Personell Carriers, Artillery, Anti Tank Guns, Armored Cars, Tank Destroyers, Halftracks and other military vehicles and exhibits at the Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT 06810.
- Heavy Cruiser USS Salem CA-139 at the
United States Naval Shipbuilding Museum in Quincy, Massachusetts.
- F-4 Phantom, A-6 Intruder, A-10 Thunderbolt II, A-7E Corsair, F-5 Tiger, MiG-17, MiG-21, the model Akagi Japanese Aircraft Carrier used in the movie Tora Tora Tora, the Lockheed Electra fuselage used in the Amelia Earhart movie Final Flight, and other aircraft and aviation exhibits at the ESAM Empire State Aerosciences Museum in Glenville, NY 12302 at the Schenectedy County Airport.
- Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Sikorsky Excambian Flying Boat, B-25 Mitchell Bomber, Grumman Hellcat, P-47 Thunderbolt, F-14 Tomcat, MiG-15 Soviet Fighter, Gee Bee R1 Racer, and many other airplanes, helicopters, and aircraft exhibits at the New England Air Museum at 36 Perimeter Road, Bradley International Airport, Windsor Locks, CT 06096 (Near Hartford)
- Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter and Douglas C-54 Skymaster Transport aircraft at the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation, Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, New York
- PBY Catalina, Lockheed P2V Neptune, Douglas C-47, Grumman Goose Amphibian, Grumman Albatross, Douglas A4 Skyhawk, Beech C-45 Expeditor, Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican Helicopter, and other naval aircraft at Floyd Bennett Field's Historic Aircraft Restoration Project in Brooklyn, New York
- Muzzle loaders, revolvers, repeating rifles, semi automatic weapons, machine guns, early cannon, WWI & WWII exhibits, WWI tank, Fat Man Hiroshima atomic bomb casing, Patton's Thompson submachine gun, Hiltler's Pistol, Goering's Dagger and Baton, Napoleon's sword and pistols and many other military artifacts at the West Point Museum on the grounds of the US Military Academy in West Point, New York
- F-14 Tomcat, Grumman TBM Avenger, Grumman S-2 Tracker, MiG-15, DeHavilland Vampire, Cobra Gunship, Huey Helicopter, Curtiss Wright XF-15C, and several more military airplanes and aviation related exhibits at the Quonset Air Museum in North Kingston, RI
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