Frontiers of Flight Museum

The Frontiers of Flight Museum is an aerospace museum located in Dallas, Texas, founded in November 1988 by William E. Cooper, Kay Bailey Hutchison, and Jan Collmer.Frontiers of Flight Museum site Originally located within a terminal at Dallas Love Field, the museum now occupies a building at the southeast corner of Love Field on Lemmon Avenue. The museum is an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program.

Aviation historian George E. Haddaway promoted the founding of the museum subsequent to donation of his extensive personal collection of aviation history books, journals, photographs, as well as archives to the University of Texas at Dallas as the nucleus of the History of Aviation Collection.Texas Aviation Hall of Fame George E. Haddaway

The museum features an extensive collection of aviation history artifacts and vehicles, and focuses on the history of aviation and space exploration with an emphasis on the role of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Exhibits include the Apollo 7 Command Module; a World War I Sopwith Pup biplane replica; artifacts from the German airship Hindenburg and other airships; and over 200 World War II aircraft models.

Aircraft on display

Bell TH-1L Iroquois Bell TH-13S Sioux Bell UH-1D Iroquois Boeing 737-200 nose section, Southwest Airlines livery. Boeing 737-300 registration N300SW, Southwest Airlines livery. Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet Bücker Bü 133 – replica Culver Dart GC Curtiss JN-4D de Havilland DH.82H Tiger Moth E-Systems XQM-93A Glasflügel BS-1 Grumman EA-6B Prowler Laser 200 LearAvia Lear Fan 2100 Learjet 24D Lockheed T-33A Lockheed Martin F-16B Fighting Falcon LTV A-7 Corsair II Meyer's Little Toot Northrop T-38 Talon Piper PA-20 Pacer Pitts S-2B Republic F-105D Thunderchief Ryan PT-22 Recruit Shoestring F1 Racer Sopwith Pup – replica Texas-Temple Sportsman – sole surviving example Thorp T-18 Vought RF-8G Crusader Vought V-173 Wright Flyer – model

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Frontiers of Flight Museum

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