Historic Aircraft Restoration Project

The Historic Aircraft Restoration Project is an aviation museum located in Hangar B at Floyd Bennett Field in New York, New York.

Historic Aircraft Restoration Project

Location within New York
Established	1998 (1998)
Location	New York, New York
Coordinates	40.595°N 73.883°W / 40.595; -73.883
Type	Aviation museum
Founder	Arnie Migliaccio
Website	www.nps.gov/gate/learn/historyculture/historic-aircraft-at-hangar-b.htm

History

In 1996, Arnie Migliaccio suggested the creation of a group of volunteers, working as part of the National Park Service's Volunteers-In-Parks program, to restore aircraft on Floyd Bennett Field. The project began two years later in Hangar B on the east side of the airport and the volunteers eventually became known as "angels".^[1][2][3]

A number of the project's aircraft were previously on display at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.^[4][5][6]

In May 2002, the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation's KC-97 arrived at the project's hangar.^[7] The project provided space to the foundation as they restored the aircraft. After 15 years of work, the airplane departed the airport in November 2017.^[8]

The project's volunteers were locked out of the hangar in 2019, allegedly due to a dispute over racial discrimination by another volunteer.^[9]

Collection

Grumman JRF-5 Goose

• Beechcraft JRB-4^[10]
• Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina^[11]
• Douglas A-4 Skyhawk^[12]
• Douglas C-47D Skytrain^[13]
• Fairchild PT-26^[14]
• Grumman UF-1G Albatross^[6]
• Grumman JRF-5 Goose^[15]
• Grumman S-2E Tracker^[5]
• Lockheed SP-2E Neptune^[4]
• Lockheed Vega Winnie Mae – replica^[3]
• Sikorsky HH-3F Pelican^[16]

See also

• List of aviation museums