Tillamook Air Museum

History

The six-blimp hangar was built by the United States Navy in 1942 during World War II for Naval Air Station Tillamook. It is 1072 ft long and 296 ft wide, covering more than 7 acre. It stands 192 ft tall. Each door weighs 30 ST and are 120 ft tall. Its companion building, Hangar "A", was destroyed by fire on August 22, 1992.

Between April 2013 and September 2014, the museum moved the part of its collection owned by Jack Erickson from Tillamook to Madras, Oregon.

In November 2014, the owners of Hangar B, the Port of Tillamook Bay, announced that they would continue operation of the Tillamook Air Museum with the remaining collection.

In 2016, the Classic Aircraft Aviation Museum moved some aircraft to the museum.

In 2021, the museum received a B-52 cockpit on loan from Scroggins Aviation Mockup & Effects.

In 2025, the museum announced it would be receiving an HU-25. Later that year it began fundraising for the restoration of its F-14. In July, it revealed it was being given an AV-8B. At the end of the month, the Port of Tillamook proposed a study for structural repairs to Hangar B. In December, a large hole was opened in the hangar when an approximately 170 by 30 foot section of the roof was folded over by strong winds. Estimates to repair and fully restore the building are at least $20 million.

Collection

Aircraft on display

• Aero Spacelines Mini Guppy
• Alenia C-27A Spartan
• BAC Jet Provost
• Boeing B-52 Stratofortress cockpit
• Boeing 727 cockpit
• Bell TH-57 Sea Ranger
• Bellanca 14-13 Cruisair Senior
• Brown Starlite
• Cessna 180F Skywagon
• Chris-Teena Mini Coupe
• Convair 880 – Forward fuselage
• Cvjetkovic CA-65 Skyfly
• Douglas A-4B Skyhawk
• Douglas A-26C Invader
• ERCO Ercoupe 415C
• Fairchild GK-1
• Fisher R-80 Tiger Moth
• Grumman F-14A Tomcat
• Kaman HTK-1 Huskie
• Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star Coming Soon
• LTV A-7 Corsair II
• McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom cockpit Used in the 2016 film, "Sully."
• McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II
• Nieuport 11 – Replica
• Nord 1101 Noralpha
• PZL-Mielec Lim-6bis
• PT-17 Stearman
• Rans S-4 Coyote
• Rutan Model 61 Long-EZ
• Rutan Quickie
• Ryan PT-22 Recruit
• WindRyder

Exhibits

The museum also features an exhibit hall with a large collection of rare historical wartime and aviation themed artifacts including pieces of the great German airship, the LZ-129 Hindenburg, a World War II Luftwaffe flight jacket and a WWII Japanese Army Winter flight suit.

• Anderson air raid shelter walk-thru interactive exhibit
• Curtiss SB2C Helldiver crash exhibit
• Naval Air Station Tillamook pigeon loft walk-thru exhibit
• Spots of Light: To Be a Woman in the Holocaust exhibit
• Virtual reality exhibit: A Journey through the Architectural Legacy of "Hangar B."

References

References

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13. (18 December 2025). "Windstorm damages Tillamook Air Museum's 83-year-old roof". KGW8.
14. (16 January 2026). "A storm tore open the roof of this massive Oregon landmark. Will anyone save it?". OregonLive.
15. "Aero-Spacelines Mini-Guppy".
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17. "B-52 Stratofortress".
18. "Cessna 180F Skywagon".
19. "Chris-Teena Mini-Coupe".
20. "Douglas A4-B [sic] Skyhawk".
21. "Erco Ercoupe 415-C".
22. "Fairchild Gk-1 [sic]".
23. "Grumman F-14A Tomcat".
24. "Kaman HTK-1 (Helicopter)".
25. "Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair ll".
26. (6 August 2025). "Historic fighter jet retires at Tillamook Air Museum". OregonLive.
27. "Nieuport 11 (Replica)".
28. "Nord 1101 Noralpha".
29. "Mikoyan-Gurevich Mig-17/Lim 6".
30. "Airframe Dossier - Mikoyan Gurevich-WSK-Mielec Lim-6bis, s/n 319 SPRP, c/n 1F 03-19, c/r N2503N".
31. "Quickie (homebuilt aircraft hanging above Café)".
32. "Exhibits".