Thu, Jun 10, 2010
Second Consecutive Heritage Award For The Georgia Museum
The Museum of Aviation has won the
2010 Air Force Heritage Award for its Ambassadors in Blue - U. S.
Air Force Thunderbirds exhibit. The 2,286-square-foot exhibit
sponsored by the Carl Vinson Memorial chapter of the Air Force
Association opened in May 2009 and displays an F-16A Fighting
Falcon that was a part of the famous flying team from 1982 to
1991.
The award was presented by C.R. Anderegg, the director of Air
Force History and Museums Programs and Policies, who recognized
"the hard work, dedication and commitment to excellence" shown by
the exhibits team at the Museum of Aviation.
Museum officials gained the aircraft in February 2008 from
Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas, where it had been used as a
maintenance trainer after being retired from the Thunderbirds team
to bring on a newer model of the F-16. Using the aircraft paint
facilities at Robins AFB and the technical data supplied by the
Thunderbirds members, museum officials repainted the aircraft to
its original red-white-and-blue Thunderbirds markings. Air Force
Association officials donated more than $17,700 for the supplies
and paint to put the Thunderbirds paint scheme on the aircraft,
which is an earlier version of the F-16s used by the team
today.
"This is the second year in a row we have won this Air Force
award," said Ken Emery, the museum director. "Last year we won it
for the 507th PIR/Down to Earth WWII exhibit in the new World War
II Hangar. That exhibit and the Thunderbirds exhibit are now two of
our most popular exhibits."
Besides the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Dayton,
Ohio, the Museum of Aviation is now the only other Air Force museum
in the country to have a former Thunderbirds F-16 on display. The
exhibit is open free to the public.
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