World aviation museum and gate guard map

[kitbasher]

You don't have these on your map:
https://www.dehavillandmuseum.co.uk/

https://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/bunker

https://www.bcam.net/

[PR19_Kit]

What's with that 'Half a Herk' then? 

[Captain Canada]

Sorry I totally forgot to add the text ! It's located at the Evansville Regional Airport, in Evansville, Indiana. It's beside the fire hall, so I'm assuming it's a training aid.

[reddfoxx]

Kitbasher: We already have those on the map.  Let me know if you still can't see them.  Maybe Google is being weird.  I hope everyone can see all the sites.   I do have a different website for the BOB bunker at RAF Uxbridge / Hillingdon: http://friendsof11group.co.uk/

[reddfoxx]

I logged out and searched the map for the de Havilland museum, etc., and they showed up.  Still might be an issue of me seeing things that others don't, since I am the administrator.  Folks, please poke around the map and see if your favorites are there.  We'll never have them all, but I am confident we have all of the major ones, and 95% of the aviation museums in total.  A few more come in every month during my searches for gate guards, generally in out of the way places.

For reference, right now we have 1552 museums, 3232 gate guards/air parks (in two separate map layers,) and 314 miscellaneous (memorials, factory tours, planes built into restaurants, etc.)  If you see different numbers, or don't see a museum you know of, please let me know.  I want this to be as complete, and useful, as possible.

[kitbasher]

Hi reddfoxx, delved into the map and had a rummage round but didn't see any of the sites I highlighted (hence the suggestions).  So is it possible some locations don't show according to the user's location (unlikely I guess), or is it possible I somehow checked an old copy?  A mystery 

[reddfoxx]

Argh, I'm not sure what is happening.  I doubt the viewer's location matters, and I assume the map link stays the same.  Just in case, here is the current link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YglU7IxTI_xdJtGCPwljGoFWn-8&usp=sharing

[reddfoxx]

Might it make a difference whether you view it on a phone or a computer?  And you're all welcome to join my Facebook group, The International Aviation Museum Guide.  The map is pinned to the top.  Maybe accessing it that way makes a difference?

TIAMG FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/365080863684050/

[reddfoxx]

Wow.  Added, thanks!  The Jetstar and others appear to be permanent displays.  And that graveyard is huge!

[Rheged]

Another one for the list. So new it's not erected yet!

https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/16980269.blacksmith-crafts-latest-addition-for-national-arboretum/#gallery1

Three stylised Horsa gliders in an S shaped spiral  descent pattern

[reddfoxx]

Added, thanks!  We already have a couple of sculptures listed there.

Good time for an update:  more than 5700 locations on the map.  374 misc. (memorials, factory tours, planes used as restaurants, etc.)  3785 gate guards/air parks, etc.  And 1,585 museums, far more than I thought existed.  The museums are trickling in very slowly nowadays, so I think we have almost all of them.  But then, I said that as we approached 1500.

[upnorth]

Here's something very new for you, this past week an L-29 Delfin was mounted outside the National Technical Museum in Prague, Czech Republic:

https://www.facebook.com/pg/NarodniTechnickeMuzeum/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2166983033335492&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARA2jJIVxVq8Vq_BXe4oHnuyErur8rXdcvUqNCsrH3twei541fifTI3Rg2GxIDVlINetyECcAQchGYWdFcf87PvxY-2fR1Cc0jFgudIAmvPkiiJ7hypqKxTS7dtD1FabGErVJ1eayLi53faBX9P-CcjyjsJf-E4JLHrLEh40OCUNFqg0AyMAwy-UYgjzkpuUOKiqBDbt33hArWph5g9HO5HGsNdNMttO&__tn__=-UC-R

The aircraft was, until recently, part of the Brno Technical Museum collection.

[perttime]

Aircraft Park in Kauhava, Finland:
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/63%C2%B006'02.5%22N+23%C2%B003'27.1%22E/@63.1006968,23.0553391,356m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d63.1006944!4d23.0575278
63°06'02.5"N 23°03'27.1"E

The Finnish Air Force Training Air Wing was located in Kauhava from 1937 to 2014.

A park in the town currently has two display cabinets with trainer aircraft (Saab 91D Safir, Focke-Wulf Fw 44J Stieglitz, VL Pyry - and a Valmet Vinka coming when they are decommissioned) and a BA Hawk on a pole. The plan is to also move two Fouga Magisters, mounted on poles, from the former Air Force site to the park - and there is an option for a third display cabinet.







Google's images are not up to date.
The Fougas are still at the former Air Force site, near the airport:
https://www.google.fi/maps/place/63%C2%B006'48.1%22N+23%C2%B002'28.0%22E/@63.1133635,23.0389224,356m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d63.1133611!4d23.0411111

edit:
Finnish Aviation Museum Society page that seems updated on what is there:
http://www.ilmailumuseot.fi/tuotteet.html?id=25534/

A Fouga Magister was recently mounted on a pedestal in the "Aircraft Park" at Kauhava, Finland.
A few photos at https://www.flightforum.fi/topic/31468-fouga-fm-12-kauhavan-lentokonepuisto/

[reddfoxx]

Perttime and upnorth, thanks!  Both museums were on the map, but I modified the listings with your updates.  That Finnish one is unusual, with the "display cabinets" for some planes.

[reddfoxx]

There are now more than 6000 listings on the map!  1600 museums, the rest gate guards, memorials, etc.  Never thought we'd have that many museums, but I find a few more every month.  Thanks for all the info and suggestions!