Eglin AFB - USAF Museum Collection

[canberraman]

The US Air Force Armament Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to the collection, preservation and exhibition of artifacts and memorabilia associated with Air Force Armament and its platforms of delivery.

 

The museum was conceived and approved in 1974 but there was no suitable structure available on Eglin Air Force Base until 1976. In the spring of that year, an old Enlisted Club facility became available and the Armament Museum became a reality. To help fund and perpetuate this Museum, the Air Force Armament Museum Foundation (AFAMF), a philanthropic non-profit organization, was established.

 

The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum is located outside Eglin AFB on the Emerald Coast of the Florida Panhandle. There are over 29 different aircraft that have found a home at the Air Force Armament Museum including an AC-130, B-17, B-25, B-52, P-51, A-10, F-15, F-16, F-100, F-101, and many other aircraft from the WWII era to the present. There are also several hundred pieces of armament to include a gun collection, bombs, bomblets and missiles to include the Sparrow, Sidewinder, cluster bombs, Bunker Buster and the MOAB.

 

I visited the SE USA in October 2017 and this museum, on our visits itinerary, certainly didn’t disappoint. Best of all it was free to enter!

 

 

B-17G 44-883863 marked 230180/C

For many years this F-111E 68-0058 was assigned to the 20th TFW at RAF Upper Heyford. Its later service was spent with the 40 FLTS/46 Test Wing at Eglin AFB.

This C-47K has been modified and painted to represent an AC-47 gunship 'Spooky' 43/010/OS as used in SE Asia.

F-86F 52-5512 'Beauteous Butch II' marked as F-86A 51-9210

B-52G 58-0195 'El Lobo II' still wearing the markings of the 2 BW at Barksdale AFB

A-10A 75-0288.ET, an example of the Warthog previously employed by the 46th Test Wing at Eglin om armament trials.

Beautifully restored RF-4C 67-0452/ET also formerly of the 40 FLTS./46 Test Wing.

Star attraction for many is this SR-71A Blackbird 61-7959. 

MH-53M Pave Low 73-1652

UH-1B 66-15186/ET

EB-57B 52-1516

RB-47H 52-4296 with F-4C, F-100D and F-101B in the background.

Wearing the markings of Eglin AFB's 33rd FW, a base once synonymous with the Eagle before the recent arrival of the F-35A. is this F-15A 74-0124/EG.

 

Thanks for looking. C&C always appreciated.

 

Mark

Edited December 11, 2017 by canberraman

[Alpha Delta 210]

You certainly get around a bit, Mark! Great pictures from an interesting collection that I had never heard of! Thanks for sharing.

[canberraman]

Just now, Alpha Delta 210 said:

You certainly get around a bit, Mark! Great pictures from an interesting collection that I had never heard of! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Alpha Delta!  October was certainly an action packed month filled with some great visits and opportunities. That's it though now till next Spring, I might now be able to get back to some modelling!

 

Mark

 

 

[thevid]

Excellent shots. Here is ine I took in  Feb 1977 when the Museum was in a small building.

 

 

 

[F-32]

Love it!

[canberraman]

On 12/13/2017 at 9:19 PM, F-32 said:

Love it!

Thanks F-32 and all for the comments and likes.

 

Mark

[Red Dot]

The first time i went there it was shut and we were only given ten minutes to do the planes outside. Easy-peasey, including a film change too