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The third smallest state in the United States, yet the one with the largest average per-capita income, Connecticut possesses a rich aviation heritage curated by four different-sized museums located in the capital, Hartford, and New Haven areas.<\/p>\n

Pioneering aviation state<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Hot air balloons started flying from both those cities in the 1790s, America’s first controlled flight of a dirigible occurred in the state capital in 1878 and the first reliably documented flight of a heavier-than-air craft took place over New Britain in 1910.<\/p>\n

Connecticut historians also boast that their state government was the creator of the world’s first piece of civil aviation legislation, the 1911 “Act Concerning the Registration, Numbering, and Use of Airships, and the Licensing of Operators Thereof”.<\/p>\n

\"Pioneers\" <\/a>
A selected display illustrates aviation pioneering artifacts in Connecticut history (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hamilton <\/a>
Display shows but a few of the propeller models built by Hamilton Standard in their Hartford plant (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"WW <\/a>
Wood carved and painted plate shows P&W’s engines contribution to the WW II effort (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Founding <\/a>
Preserved at the P&W Historic Hangar is the shovel used to break ground for the company’s East Hartford and North Haven plants in 1929 and 1951, respectively (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"P&W <\/a>
Perspective view of the P&W Historic Hangar at the formar East Hartford airfield (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Corsair <\/a>
Framed by Goodyear FG-1D, CASC displays this gigantic mural photo of the Vought production line in Stratford (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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Growing public and business interest in aviation led to the appearance of pioneering enterprises building aircraft and dirigibles in the second half of the 1910s, the creation of aviation power plants giant, Pratt & Whitney<\/strong>, in Hartford and the Curtiss Flying School<\/strong> in Stratford during the 1920s.<\/p>\n

In the early 1930s, Ukranian aircraft designer, Igor I. Sikorsky<\/strong>, selected Stratford for a seaplanes manufacturing plant, and Colonial Air Transport<\/strong> (now part of American Airlines), started providing regional passenger and cargo services between New York, Hartford and Boston.<\/p>\n

Second World War brought about an unexpected bonanza for industrial production after the 1929 depression, with Pratt & Whitney manufacturing over 350,000 engines for military use, Hamilton Standard<\/strong> supplying countless aircraft propellers and Chance Vought<\/strong> producing F4U Corsair fighter aircraft for the US Navy.<\/p>\n

\"Connecticut <\/a>
Information panel tells the story of USAAF 57th Fighter Group from creation in Connecticut in 1941 through its distinguished combat record in WW II (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Starfighter\" <\/a>
Lockheed F-104 56-0901 in silver finish and USAF Tactical Air Command markings (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Thunderbolt\" <\/a>
Republic P-47D 45-49458 poses as 42-0344 “Norma” to illustrates the type’s usage by 57th FIghter Group’s 65th Fighter Squadron in WW II (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Kits!\" <\/a>
An interesting array of model kits propose and adequate ambience for visitors entering NEAM’s main hall (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Thunderbolt <\/a>
Republic A-10 79-0173 wearing Europe One colour scheme and Connecticut Air National Guard markings (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Huskie\" <\/a>
Kaman HH-53 60-0289 wearing USAF Military Airlift Command Markings (photo: Eduardo “Teddy” Di Poi). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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Post war years continued to witness in-state aviation evolution: Commercial air transport development focused on Bradley International Airport<\/strong> (in Hartford’s suburban area), Sikorsky became the founding father of US helicopter industry, Pratt & Whitney entered the turboprop and jet ages in earnest (and even briefly played with the concept of nuclear energy for aviation power plants) and Sikorsky disciple, Charles Kaman<\/strong>, launched an independent business and turned into a wealthy reference in intermeshing rotor helicopter design.<\/p>\n

Several of the firms listed above remain active and at the forefront of aviation technologies development and production to the present day, while Bradley International is a burgeoning facility supporting varied commercial, executive, general and military air operations.<\/p>\n

Museum at Bradley International<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The state’s #flagship museum is the New England Aviation Museum (NASM)<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, located in Bradley International’s northeast corner in Windsor Locks, near Hartford.<\/p>\n

\"Rotary <\/a>
The northwest corner of Hall #2 houses a selection of vintage and exotic helicopters, including an US Army Sikorsky R-4 and Doman’s H-31 and LZ-1A (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Hall <\/a>
Dominated by commercial aviation and rotary wings, hall #2 houses a Lockheed Electra in Northwest Airlines colours, a Douglas DC-3 in Eastern Airlines livery and the exotic Burnelli Loadmaster prototype (photo: Eduardo “Teddy” Di Poi). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Atlantic <\/a>
Sikorsky VS-44 NC41881 “Excambian” is the main attraction in Hall #2 (photo: Eduardo “Teddy” Di Poi). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Blimp <\/a>
Cockpit section in Goodyear ZNPK-28’s control car, rebuilt after 10,000 man hours of restoration work (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Civil <\/a>
The visually striking Sikorsky S-39 NC803W, as exhibited in Hall #2 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Racing <\/a>
The winner of the 1948 Thompson Trophy at Cleveland (Ohio), North American P-51D-20NA N13Y #45, was fully restored in 2018 and is now exhibited in NEAM’s Hall #2 (photo: Eduardo “Teddy” Di Poi). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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At a modern and well maintained facility, the museum possesses four exhibition buildings, two maintenance\/storage hangars, several outdoor exhibits and a deep storage sector dubbed “Area 51”, where access is naturally restricted…<\/p>\n

Distinguishing features in the exhibition include a selection of World War II<\/strong> aircraft, including\u00a0 a fantastically preserved B-29 Super Fortress, several land and carrier-based fighters (including an impeccable P-47 Thunderbolt) and two medium bombers (a B-25 Mitchell and an A-26 Invader).<\/p>\n

Cold War<\/strong> is also well represented, with several jets illustrating the era ranging from the Korean War in the 1950s to the fall of the Berlin wall in the 1990s and also showing a number of helicopters from the traumatic Vietnam War; several of them wearing markings from Connecticut or New England flying units.<\/p>\n

\"Black <\/a>
Entrance to the exhibition honoring black crews involved in WW II (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Breaking <\/a>
A small glimpse at the New England women in aviation exhibition (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Canberra\" <\/a>
Kansas Air National Guard Martin RB-57A 52-1488 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Polish <\/a>
The impeccable exhibition portraying the flying history of the Kosciuszko Squadron (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Scorpion\" <\/a>
Maine Air National Guard Northrop F-89J 52-1896 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Boeing <\/a>
Boeing B-29A-55-BN 44-61975 posing 44-61566\/I55 “Jack’s Hack” at NASM’s 58th Bomb Wing memorial hall (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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The museum also pays tribute to the Airships era, propeller-drive commercial aviation and helicopters, with a variety of exclusive exhibits, including an awe-inspiring Sikorsky VS-44 seaplane, a beautifully restored Goodyear ZNPK dirigible cockpit, resplendent metal finished Douglas DC-3 and Electra 10 in Eastern and Northwest Airlines (respectively), exotic helicopter prototypes by Sikorsky and Doman and the ugly and recently restored Burnelli Loadmaster N17N.<\/p>\n

Last, but definitely not the least, NEAM also illustrates aviation contributions to progress by helicopter pioneers, Igor Sikorsky and Charles Kaman, and involvement in aviation and US foreign wars by different social groups, such as New England’s women in aviation<\/strong>, the Tuskegee airmen<\/strong> or the Polish Kosciuzskko Squadron<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Twenty miles south of NEAM, Pratt & Whitney maintains a Hangar Museum<\/a><\/strong><\/span> (P&WHM), at its corporate headquarters in East Hartford, where company legacy, memorabilia and historial artifacts are on display for both employees and visitors alike.<\/p>\n

\"Lindbergh's <\/a>
As a consultant to Pan American Airways, Charles Lindbergh visited P&W and Sikorsky plants in Connecticut during development of the company’s China clipper seaboats. This is the desk he used while visiting P&W’s in West Hartford. (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jumbo <\/a>
P&W’s JT9D was the first high bypass ratio jet engine, powering wide-body airliners such as the Boeing 747. It subsequently powered the Boeing 767, Airbus A300 and A310, and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Turboprop <\/a>
Full-size examples of Pratt & Whitney’s JFTD12\/T73 turboprop helicopter engine and the unducted fan proposed jointly with Allison for the McDonnell Douglas MD-92X in the late-1980s (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"UCAV\" <\/a>
P&W display of the first carrier-launch of an unmanned combat air system, powered by their F100 engine (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Unducted <\/a>
Back in the 1980s, P&W teamed up with McDonnell Douglas and Allison proposing MD-92X, an MD-80 evolution powered by unducted fans for increased fuel efficiency (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"P&W <\/a>
Scale models illustrate but a short list of P&W engine-powered aircraft, including (left to right) Lockheed Martin’s F-16, Boeing’s X-32 demonstrator and Sonic Cruiser project and Ling Temco Vought’s F4U (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
\n

The facility, which also fulfills a role as a huge two-hangar meeting hall for internal events, preserves a fascinating collection of Pratt & Whitney engines, scale models and displays curating company history since Faye Rentschler broke ground for their first engine-manufacturing plant on 07\/16\/1929.<\/p>\n

New Haven entries<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Closer to the Long Island Sound, at the northwest corner of Stratford’ Sikorsky Memorial Airport, lies the Connecticut Air & Space Center<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (CASC), an aspiring museum project housed just beside the historical Curtiss Flying School hangar.<\/p>\n

In addition to preserving an interesting collection of aircraft and helicopters that are on display or storage, CASC’s goals contemplate restoring “the [Curtiss] hangar back to its original splendor and display it’s growing fleet of restored aircraft and displays [so as to] become a significant regional cultural educational location like no other in Southern Connecticut”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"Historic <\/a>
CASC advertises their project to restore the 1929 Curtiss historic hangar back to its original splendor (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cessna <\/a>
Donated by its former owner, N7021G was repainted in Connecticut Motor Club livery (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Army <\/a>
Panel telling the story of the former aviation plant presently hosting CASC (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"WW <\/a>
CASC’s exhibition hangar is crammed full of historial aviation signs, posters and photos (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Tweety <\/a>
Cessna A-37B 57-2346 in outdoor exhibition with USAF Air Training Command markings (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Chickasaw\" <\/a>
Sikorsky H-19B 52-7573 in outdoor exhibition with USAF Air Training Command markings (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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Occupying two buildings at the former Stratford Army Engine Plant<\/strong> (one of a handful of surviving World War II aircraft factories in the USA), CASC displays only a small part of its aircraft and artifacts collection in a compact hangar and the surrounding tarmac.<\/p>\n

Cramped, yet well illuminated and relatively easy to walk around, the hangar also displays a fascinating list of artifacts, collectibles and memorabilia from years gone by, including uniforms, flying garment, scale model aircraft and helicopters, manuals, posters and informative display commemorating state pioneers and veterans, ranging from humble Stratford test crews, Connecticut Pearl Harbor heroes to the state’s adopted son, Russian designer Sikorsky.<\/p>\n

Center piece exhibitions include a former US Navy and Salvadorian Air Force FG-1D Corsair and an US Army LOH-6 Cayuse twice-downed during Vietnam War (both inside CASC’s main hangar) as well as several neatly restored relics exhibited outdoors.<\/p>\n

\"Connecticut <\/a>
CASC reserves display space to celebrate the history of women in US aviation industry, highlighting Connecticut World War II female workers as well as distinctive cultural icon, “Rosie the riveter”<\/b> (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"HO5S-1\" <\/a>
BuNo 128610, an USMC example of the Sikorsky S-52, the first US helicopter with all-metal rotor blades (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div>
\"Corsair\" <\/a>
FG-1G BuNo 92460, built by Goodyear in 1945, had a short career with the USMC and USN, moved to the Salvadorian Air Force in 1957 and returned to the USA in 1969 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Cayuse\" <\/a>
OA-6A 67-16477 “Brandy 477”, a “twice-wounded in combat” veteran of the Vietnam War (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Bede <\/a>
BD-5B N5123G, was presumably donated by Stratford neighbor, May Reinhard in about 2018 (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"National <\/a>
In spite of its gradiouse title, NHM occupies humble facilities at a train station (photo: Carlos Ay). <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n
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The last stop in our Connecticut aviation museum tour is the National Helicopter Museum<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (NHM), established in 1983 in a former train building across the railways from Stratford Amtrak station, to try and “put the development of the helicopter in perspective with other aviation activities that occurred in Stratford”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In addition to an S-76 Spirit cockpit section, NHM (inaccessible at the time of our visit) is said to feature a photo essay of helicopter development from nature\u2019s own dragonfly and hummingbird to international developments in the twenty-first century, evokes Igor Sikorsky\u2019s career and many helicopter pioneers are illustrated in varied forms.<\/p>\n

Visiting the four museums requires a relaxed two to three-day schedule for ordinary tourists (inquisitive explorers should add more time try and access private areas): NASM definitively justifies a full day stay, CASC deserves at least a morning tour and P&WHM and NHM can be checked in just a couple hours each; while shuttling back and forth from New Haven to Hartford requires one and a half hour each way… but the list of 60 aircraft noted<\/strong><\/span><\/a> are well worth the effort!<\/p>\n

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Acknowledgements<\/strong>: Brothers Alfredo<\/strong> and Eduardo “Teddy” Di Poi<\/strong> contributed to this report in East and West Hartford, Stratford and Windsor Locks. Internet references<\/strong>: Airways Magazine, Avweekery, CASC, Connecticut History, Federal Aviation Agency, Joe Baugher, Mustangs Mustangs, National Helicopter Museum, Scramble and Wikipedia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fortuitous pre-winter holiday visit to the United States in early December 2023 provided a unique opportunity to visit and inspect the four aviation-related museums in the State of Connecticut… come discover the treasures preserved in these institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,4,10,11,13],"tags":[50,170,178,171,180,158,163,57,160,169,159,166,162,155,175,176,154,164,181,177,161,153,179,156,167,174,173,106,165,172,168,157],"class_list":["post-9600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transport","category-defence","category-general","category-industry","category-relics","tag-a-10-warthog","tag-b-29-super-fortress","tag-bradley-international-airport","tag-cessna-150","tag-connecticut-air-space-center-casc","tag-curtiss","tag-doman-helicopters","tag-eebacbae-canberra","tag-f-104-starfighter","tag-f-89-scorpion","tag-f4u-corsair","tag-goodyear-blimps","tag-h-43-huskie","tag-hamilton-standard","tag-hughes-mcdd-boeing-500","tag-jim-bede","tag-kaman-helicopters","tag-lockheed-electra","tag-national-helicopter-museum-nhm","tag-new-england-aviation-museum-nasm","tag-p-47-thunderbolt","tag-pratt-whitney","tag-pratt-whitney-hangar-museum-pwhm","tag-sikorsky","tag-sikorsky-s-39","tag-sikorsky-s-52","tag-sikorsky-s-55","tag-sikorsky-s-61","tag-sikorsky-vs-44","tag-t-37-tweety-bird","tag-tuskegee-airmen","tag-vought"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/wp-content\/uploads\/3024\/01\/3-2023-12-09-14-53-48-IMG_1014_edited.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1JKRl-2uQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10275,"url":"https:\/\/www.gacetaeronautica.com\/gaceta\/wp-102\/conaf-deploys-77-forest-fire-fighting-aircraft-in-central-and-southern-chile\/","url_meta":{"origin":9600,"position":0},"title":"Chilean government deploys almost 80 forest fire fighting aircraft for the summer season","author":"Carlos Ay","date":"Monday 23 December 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"In preparation for the 2024\/2025 wild fires season, Chile's National Forestry Corporation (Corporaci\u00f3n Nacional Forestal, CONAF) officiallly acknowledged deployment of 36 fixed-wing and 41 rotary-wing aircraft throughout 12 regions where events are expected to occur between December 2024 and April 2025. 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