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Prairie Aviation Museum ^[1]
2929 East Empire Street
Bloomington, Illinois 61704
Phone: (309) 663-7632

When passing through Bloomington, Illinois, be sure to visit the Prairie Aviation Museum. The Prairie Aviation Museum, is a mid-size air Museum located on East Empire Street on the north side of the Central Illinois Regional Airport (BMI).

PAM's Mission Statement — “To educate, entertain, and inspire through collecting, preserving, and displaying aircraft, artifacts, and memorabilia about aviation and space.”

The PAM is an all volunteer organization that has provided displays, static aircraft, education programs, air shows, group tours, and special aviation events for over 30 years. As an aviation and space museum, they honor military and civilian aviation. While visitors are quick to notice their displays, they love to tell the stories of the men and women who have contributed to the creation, development, expansion, and promise of aviation and space exploration.

They are a family friendly Museum, where visitors of all ages can touch their displays and static aircraft and visit with members who flew and maintained the aircraft in the Air Park. They love to hear visitor's stories about experiences that they and/or members of their family have had related to aviation and space.

If you would like to learn more about the PAM, please visit their website noted above.

• Bell AH-1J “SeaCobra” (BuNo 157771)
• Bell UH-1H-BF “Iroquois”—“Huey“ (AF 67-17832)
• 1958 Cessna 310B (N900S, c/n 35742)
• Douglas A-4M “Skyhawk” (BuNo 160036, c/n 14538)
• Grumman F-14D(R) “Super Tomcat” (BuNo 161163, c/n 390, ex F-14A-110-GR)
• Hughes 269A (TH-55 “Osage”)
• Ling-Temco-Vought A-7A-3B-CV “Corsair II” (BuNo 152681)
• Lockheed T-33A-5-LO “Shooting Star” (AF 53-5979)
• McDonnell Douglas F-4N “Phantom II” (BuNo 150444, c/n 230, ex F4H-1)
• North American F-100C “Super Sabre” (AF 54-1785, c/n 217-46)
• Northrop T-38A-25-NO “Talon” (AF 60-0549, c/n N.5122, ex GT-38A)

A Special Thanks

We would like to thank Michael R. Sallee, Director Community Outreach, Prairie Aviation Museum for sending us pictures of the aircraft at the Museum.

References

1. Prairie Aviation Museum, website
2. Google Earth, Satellite Image
3. Sallee, Michael R. “Re: Prairie Aviation Museum - Pictures.” Multiple messages to Skytamer Images. 11/21/2014 to 11/30/2014. E-mail.