Quonset Air Museum Roof

In march 2014 snow and ice caused part of the roof to collapse in the world war ii era hangar that housed the museum near quonset state airport.

Quonset air museum roof.

The quonset air museum resides in a wwii airplane hangar that was once part of the naval air station quonset point. 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. Days later officials condemned the building. 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.

A quonset hut being put in place at the 598th engineer base depot in japan post world war ii. Many of the aircraft and artifacts it housed such as a tb avenger once flown by former u s. The quonset air museum was an aerospace museum located at quonset point air national guard station in north kingstown rhode island. They had the room fall in on them a while back and so i could not bring friends here like before.

No one was in the building at the time. I took a long time for the people who take care of this place like a shrine to get it together so they need all the help they can get. An extensive archive of books magazines manuals photos documents and blueprints was preserved within the quonset air museum. They have great airplanes and vintage planes.

The quonset air museum is located in north kingston rhode island. The museum s collection included military vehicles missiles aircraft and over 5000 smaller aviation artifacts. 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. Quonset air museum was established in 1992 by then gov.

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. Bruce sundlun to help preserve the state s aviation heritage. 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.