Pearson Air Museum

A National Park Service museum at Pearson Field that covers Pacific Northwest aviation history.

800 Hatheway Road, Bldg. 722, Vancouver, WA 98661 · Vancouver, WA

About Pearson Air Museum

Run by the National Park Service as part of Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, this aviation museum sits at Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington. Its exhibits draw on Park Service collections and loans from community members and other museums to show flying history in the Pacific Northwest and at Vancouver Barracks. The field's story includes a World War I lumber mill, early civilian stunt flyers, a 1924 stop by the Douglas World Cruisers, and a 1937 Soviet polar flight that landed there. The museum also holds the first plane flown by Leah Hing, the first Chinese American woman to earn a pilot's license.

#aviation
#history
#national park service
#military history
#Pacific Northwest

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