Airborne and Special Operations Museum
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Airborne and Special Operations Museum is a museum in North Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 32 m. Gaddys Mountain stands 165 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is North Carolina Veterans Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Averasboro Battlefield Scenic Byway passes 16 miles off. 14 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The United States Army Airborne & Special Operations Museum (ASOM) is part of the U.S. Army Museum Enterprise dedicated to preserving and teaching a public history of the Special Operations and Airborne community, as well as broader United States military history. Located on Fort Bragg, but geographically separate from the main installation, it has been open to the public in nearby downtown Fayetteville, North Carolina since 2000. The facility is staffed primarily by civilians and volunteers on a day-to-day basis, but remains owned and administered by the Army through the U.S. Army Center of Military History, a part of Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). In October 2013 the ASOM opened the "Task Force Ranger and the Battle of Mogadishu Exhibit." The exhibit features immersive dioramas and artifacts from the battle including the wreckage of Super 6–1, the first Black Hawk helicopter shot down during the battle, and Super 6–4. The downing of Super 6-1 is widely considered to be a turning point in the battle and is chronicled in the book by Mark Bowden and movie Black Hawk Down produced by Ridley Scott. In late 2016 the museum held an exhibit dedicated to the "Monuments Men", including artifacts, artwork and other items related to their work protecting artistic treasures during World War II.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1999.
Wikidata Q4698426, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- donation
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 16.0 mi off the Averasboro Battlefield Scenic Byway
- 21.8 mi off the Meteor Lakes Byway
Named places within 25 miles
- North Carolina Veterans Park: 0.1 mi
- Festival Park: 0.2 mi
- Fayetteville Area Transpotation & Local History Museum: 0.3 mi
- Rowan Park: 0.4 mi
- Rowan Park: 0.4 mi
- Independent Light Infantry Museum: 0.3 mi
- The Art Center: 0.3 mi
- Museum of the Cape Fear: 0.4 mi
- Edgar Allen Poe's House: 0.4 mi
- Edgar Allen Poe's House: 0.4 mi
- Coolyconch Mountain: 12.2 mi
- Hams Hill: 14.9 mi
- Killens Hill: 16.1 mi
- Finlayson Mountain: 17.2 mi
- Gaddys Mountain: 17.9 mi
- Ghost Tower: 0.5 mi
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Howard School Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Ezekiel Ezra Smith Memorial: 1.2 mi
- Founders' Circle: 1.3 mi
- Market House: 0.5 mi
- Cape Fear Botanical Garden: 1.5 mi
- Cape Fear River Trail: 2.4 mi
- Clark Park Falls: 2.4 mi
- ZipQuest Waterfall Treetop Adventure: 6.6 mi
- Cook Quad Sculpture: 1.2 mi
- Omega-Psi-Phi Monument: 1.3 mi
- Delta-Sigma-Theta Memorial Well: 1.3 mi
- Unity: 1.4 mi
- Bronco Sculpture: 1.4 mi
- Wrc Fayetteville Access Area: 4.5 mi
- Gordon Butler Nature Preserve: 6.3 mi
- South River Preserve: 15.3 mi
- Wrc Sampson County Gamelands: 24.6 mi
- Wrc Sampson County Gamelands: 24.7 mi
- Cumberland County I-95 Southbound Rest Area: 5.2 mi
- Cumberland County I-95 Northbound Rest Area: 5.3 mi
- Fayetteville Rose Garden: 2.3 mi
- Mable C. Smith Picnic site: 2.6 mi
- Carvers Falls: 6.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Airborne and Special Operations Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaddys Mountain | WNW 285° | 165 m | 17.9 mi |
| Johnson Mountain | WNW 286° | 162 m | 21.0 mi |
| Blues Mountain | W 277° | 155 m | 19.9 mi |
| Finlayson Mountain | W 274° | 154 m | 17.2 mi |
| Cameron Hill | NW 322° | 146 m | 19.6 mi |
| Round Top | NW 318° | 144 m | 21.3 mi |
| Coolyconch Mountain | WNW 300° | 141 m | 12.2 mi |
| Holmes Hill | NNW 334° | 140 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:20 | 18:54 | 19:28 |
| June solstice | 06:03 | 19:56 | 20:34 |
| September equinox | 07:04 | 18:41 | 19:14 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 16:29 | 17:08 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Jun, Aug–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 43 | 46 | 52 | 61 | 70 | 77 | 81 | 79 | 74 | 63 | 52 | 46 |
| Precip in | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.5 | 3.4 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Fayetteville (pwc), 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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