Sullenberger Aviation Museum

The Sullenberger Aviation Museum, formerly the Carolinas Aviation Museum, is an aviation museum on the grounds of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It is one of a few aviation museums located at an airport which serves as a major hub (Charlotte is the No. 2 hub for American Airlines). Its centerpiece attraction is the Airbus A320 used on US Airways Flight 1549.





== History ==

In 1992, Floyd and Lois Peithman Wilson founded the museum, which has a collection of over 50 static aircraft and many smaller historic items related to aviation in North Carolina and South Carolina. Most of the collection consists of Cold War military aircraft, including several historic jet aircraft from the 1950s and 1960s. Many of the aircraft came over from the now-closed Florence Air & Missile Museum, formerly in Florence, South Carolina. A significant number of aircraft have also come from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and Marine Corps Air Station New River. Although the museum no longer operates flying aircraft, it has on occasion hosted historic aircraft for fly-ins, since it is located on Charlotte Douglas International Airport property. Those aircraft include the B-17, B-24, B-29, and Berlin Airlift C-54.