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The Hangar was completed in March 1930 on the newly opened Curtiss-Stienburg airport. The brick structure featured a cast Curtiss Wright emblem across the doorway. The first occupant of Hangar 2 was St. Louis based
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is a museum with the mission to preserve and display historic air and space craft and artifacts, and provide educational programs.
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The Saint Louis Air & Space Museum was incorporated in July 1982. The original site for the museum was located at
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was used for corporate transport and line patrols, and is now part of the
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List of aircraft in the Greater Saint Louis Air & Space Museum
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The museum is housed in the Curtiss Wright Hangar number two at
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used the hangar for flight operations until the mid-1990s.
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Greater Saint Louis Air & Space Museum
National Air and Space Museum
St. Louis Downtown Airport
Cahokia Heights, Illinois
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38°34′38″N 90°09′55″W / 38.5772°N 90.1653°W / 38.5772; -90.1653
http://www.airandspacemuseum.org
St. Louis Downtown Airport
Cahokia Heights, Illinois
Union Electric Company
Ford 4-AT-B
National Naval Aviation Museum
Civilian Pilot Training Program
Parks College
Spirit of St. Louis Airport

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