Touring Liberty Aviation Museum in Port Clinton, Ohio

The Liberty Aviation Museum
is located at the Erie-Ottawa
International Airport.

Turn left for the Tin Goose Diner.

Turn right for the Museum in

the Hangar.

The fee for an adult visitor is $5.00.

The culture of aviation is

on display here.

Everyone wants to fly.

A Corsair peddle car

A homemade Continental
Airline peddle car made
with a 55 gallon drum.

Building model airplanes was

& is a popular past time.

The Norden Bombsight was

used in high altitude bombing from

WW II into the Vietnam War.

B-17 Flying Fortress Gunner's Gear

Besides fighting the enemy, the

B-17 crew fought freezing 

cold associated with high 

altitude flight.

Advances in aviation lead to the US space program.

Wapakoneta, Ohio is the home
of John Glenn, the first American
to orbit the Earth.







We walk deeper into the hangar to find...

Georgie's Gal, a B-25 Mitchell

Bomber, sits in the

middle of the hangar.

Angela graces the port side of the bomber. 

Helene graces the starboard
side of the aircraft.







B-25 Bombers were used primarily in the Pacific during World War II.  Sixteen B-25s were flown by Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle's squadron on daring attack against Japan on  April 18, 1942.

Mechanic cabinets & work

benches surround the fuselage

of a Ford Tri-Motor.

Volunteers at Liberty Aviation Museum are restoring this 1929 "Tin Goose."  The Ford Tri-Motor was used by Island Airlines to transport people and mail to and from Lake

Erie Islands.

 

The supports within the
wing

Seats from the Ford Tri-Motor

are waiting to be re-installed.

Liberty Aviation Museum owns three other aircraft.  The "City of Wichita" Ford Tri-Motor is on loan to the Experimental Aviation Association and is touring the country.  The TBM Avenger Torpedo Bomber, and the Canadian made Harvard IV training plane are currently on loan to other aviation museums.