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The MAPS Air Museum is an aviation museum in North Canton, Ohio, United States.[1] Run by the Military Aviation Preservation Society, it is located off SR241 on the west side of the Akron-Canton Regional Airport.[1]

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The museum holds more than 50 aircraft,[2] most on loan from the U.S. Air Force or Navy for restoration. It also has two aircraft from the Goodyear Rubber Company.

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History

The museum was founded in 1990 in partnership with warbird collector David Tallichet and his Military Aircraft Restoration Corporation. In 1995, the museum opened to the public, housed in the National Guard Maintenance Building on the west side of the airport. In 2000, the first air show was held at the museum. In 2001, the museum moved to the nearby former Chautauqua Airlines hangar.[3]

The Ohio Military Museum moved to the museum from Massillon in 2015.[4]

In October 2018, thieves stole helmets, goggles, oxygen masks, helicopter controls, and other items from the museum. Two 17-year-olds were arrested on theft charges two weeks later.[5]

In 2020, the museum opened the hangar's newly renovated second floor, whose rental spaces include a conference room, a banquet hall, and a full-sized commercial kitchen.[6][failed verification][7]

The museum received a donation of four Goodyear Ducks in 2025 that had been discovered in a barn in Kalamazoo, Michigan.[8]

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Facilities

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The aircraft are displayed in a former U.S. Air National Guard hangar and on an adjacent tarmac.[citation needed]

The museum's library maintains and preserves institutional records and collects, preserves, and makes available images, literature, manuscripts, memoirs, diaries, books, and oral histories relating to military history. The library collection is open to the public with admission to the museum. Members may check books out.[citation needed]

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Exhibits

A tent called the "Medic's Corner" outside the hangar displays a collection of Vietnam War-era medical equipment.[9]

The museum's Gallery of Heroes room holds detailed models and period items from wars. Various displays highlight Pearl Harbor (artifacts include a piece of the battleship Arizona), the Tuskegee Airmen, and Rosie the Riveter, and include items on loan from members of the museum and community who fought in wars.[citation needed]

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Programs

The museum conducts a veterans oral history program, sending many of the interviews to the Veterans History Project.[47]

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