The Air Victory Museum is an aviation museum located at the South Jersey Regional Airport in Lumberton, New Jersey.
History The museum was founded by Steve Snyder, the president of Steve Snyder Enterprises and a former Air Force reservist, in 1989, with the goals of "airpower advocacy", "education" and "honoring the winners". The previous year, he had purchased the South Jersey Regional Airport at a bankruptcy auction.
In 1994, the museum began construction on a hangar, which was to be the restoration and storage portion of an eventual facility. The museum began acquiring additional aircraft and on 25 February 1995 an A-7 and an F-4 arrived by helicopter from Naval Air Engineering Station Lakehurst. A third aircraft, an RA-5C, was destroyed when the crew of the helicopter was forced to drop it. After four years of work, the museum opened to the public.
Then, on 19 June 1999, before construction could begin on additional buildings, Snyder was killed in the crash of his F-86 at the airport. As a result of the crash, plans for expansion of the museum and the airport were opposed by local residents.
Facilities The museum has a library with 3,000 books.
Collection Aircraft
Aereon 26 Beechcraft T-34B Mentor Douglas A-4C Skyhawk Fisher FP-404 Grumman E-2B Hawkeye Grumman F-14A Tomcat Lockheed F-80A Shooting Star – forward fuselage McDonnell F-4A Phantom II North American F-86L Sabre LTV A-7B Corsair II RH-53D Sea Stallion Northrop OQ-19A Drone Ryan Navion Wright Flyer – Replica Messerschmitt ME-109G – Replica
Engines
Righter Type 2-GS-17 Ranger L-440 Continental O-470-4 R-4360 R-2800-65W XJ30-WE-9 J65-W-5F TF30-P-408 Marquardt C-20D Martin 4-333 Ranger V-77011 Junkers Jumo 004 XJ-79-GE-13 TF30-P-414A Walter 109-500 RATO Allison J33-A-35k
Ordnance
AGM-69 SRAM B-61 Nuclear Bomb 2.75" FFAR Rocket CBU-58 Cluster Bomb MK. 46 Torpedo MK-15 Practice Bomb
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