Cradle of Aviation Museum
Aviation museum in Uniondale, New York / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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40.7286°N 73.5976°W / 40.7286; -73.5976
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Location | Uniondale, New York |
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Type | Aviation museum |
Founder | George C. Dade |
Curator | Joshua Stoff |
Public transit access | LIRR stations: Garden City, Mineola, Westbury |
Website | www |
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The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, established to commemorate Long Island's part in the history of aviation. It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. So many seminal flights had occurred in the area that, by the mid-1920s, the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "Cradle of Aviation",[1] the origin of the museum's name.