Vintage SovietYak-9 on takeoff at the 2002 MAAM WWII Weekend Air Show.
TheMid-Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM) is anaviation museum and aircraft restoration facility located atReading Regional Airport inReading, Pennsylvania. The museum, founded by Russ Strine, the current President, collects and actively restores historicwar planes and classicairliners as well as rare civilian and military aircraft. Many of the museum's historic aircraft are often seen on theairshow circuit.
The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum has hosted the “World War II Weekend Air Show” annually since 1990. The World War II Weekend is generally scheduled to coincide with6 June, with an attendance approaching 100,000 people.[1]
The museum offers rides in their vintageNorth American SNJ and in a Stearman Biplane on the second Saturday of the month from May through October excluding the month of June.[2]
It has also embarked on an ambitious project to restore itsNorthrop P-61B Black Widow, recovered from New Guinea in 1989, to flying condition.[3]
Mid Atlantic Air Museum also sells aircraft forMS Flight Simulator of some of their restored aircraft such as the B-25, C-47 and TBM Avenger.
In 2014, the museum acquired 10 t-hangars from a company called Airlife Hangars.[4]
In 2017, the construction of a new 6,400 sq ft (590 m2) hangar and 3,200 sq ft (300 m2) storage building was approved and work began the following year.[5][6]
