American Helicopter Museum & Education Center
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American Helicopter Museum & Education Center is a museum in Pennsylvania, at a recorded elevation of 138 m. Fancy Hill stands 331 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Grand Oak Park, a park 0.5 miles away. Exton Bypass passes 2.6 miles off. 45 named summits stand within 25 miles.
last admission is at 4pm
The story
The American Helicopter Museum & Education Center (AHMEC) is located at 1220 American Boulevard, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States. The transport museum focuses on rotary-wing aviation history, science and technology. The collection contains over 40 civilian and military autogyros, convertiplanes, and helicopters, including some early-generation models. The museum also has an extensive research library, the Renzo Pierpaoli Memorial Library, which contains documents, artifacts, films, and memoirs that museum members can use. The museum strives to restore and display historic aircraft and chronicle the origin and development of rotary-wing aircraft. The museum's exhibits chronicle the efforts of pioneers like Harold Frederick Pitcairn, Mr. W. Wallace Kellett of Kellett Autogiro, Arthur M. Young and Frank Piasecki, and today it continues to record the new and ever-expanding role of the U.S. helicopter industry. The exhibits span the history of rotary-wing aircraft from the earliest rotorcraft to the latest developments in tiltrotor. AHMEC is one of only two museums in the world currently displaying a V-22 Osprey.
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Dates from 1996.
Wikidata Q4743970, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 138 m
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.6 mi off the Exton Bypass
- 3.1 mi off the Brandywine Valley Scenic Byway, National
- 11.6 mi off the Blue Route
- 12.0 mi off the Red Clay Valley Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Hawk Point · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Grand Oak Park: 0.5 mi
- Hamlet Crest Park: 0.8 mi
- West Goshen Community Park: 0.9 mi
- Hallowell Park: 1.3 mi
- Richard C. Cloud Park: 1.4 mi
- Goshen Baptist Church Monument: 1.7 mi
- Bayard Rustin historical marker: 2.0 mi
- Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Memorial: 2.2 mi
- 97th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry: 2.3 mi
- General Lafayette Historical Marker: 2.3 mi
- Chester County History Center: 2.5 mi
- Duffy’s Cut Museum: 2.7 mi
- Antique Ice Tool Museum: 3.7 mi
- Historic Waynesborough: 6.2 mi
- Wharton Esherick Museum: 7.8 mi
- Serpentine Preserve: 2.8 mi
- Willisbrook Preserve: 3.1 mi
- Robert B. Gordon Natural Area for Environmental Studies: 3.7 mi
- Mt. Bradford Preserve: 4.2 mi
- Susan Groome Harney Preserve: 4.4 mi
- West End Community Garden: 2.8 mi
- Brightside Farm Park Community Garden: 5.9 mi
- Garrett Williamson Garden: 8.2 mi
- Tyler Arboretum Butterfly Garden: 8.3 mi
- Wister Rhododendron Garden: 8.5 mi
- Frederick Douglass Statue: 2.9 mi
- St. Augustine Statue: 4.4 mi
- Statue of Mary: 4.4 mi
- Hall of Prayers: 7.8 mi
- The Berwyn Mural: 8.1 mi
- Sugartown Strawberries: 3.5 mi
- West Chester Griswolds: 3.7 mi
- Historic Sugartown: 3.8 mi
- Charlestown Mill: 7.5 mi
- Hobbit Hollow: 8.2 mi
- Osborne Hill: 5.0 mi
- Harmony Hill: 5.3 mi
- Diamond Rock Hill: 7.0 mi
- Hunting Hill: 7.2 mi
- Castle Rock: 7.5 mi
- Ridley Creek State Park - Area 13 Picnic Site: 7.4 mi
- Ridley Creek State Park - Area 12 Picnic Site: 7.5 mi
- Ridley Creek State Park - Area 11 Picnic Site: 7.6 mi
- Ridley Creek State Park - Picnic Site 9: 7.7 mi
- Ridley Creek State Park - Area 14 Picnic Site: 7.9 mi
- Magnesium Spring: 7.7 mi
- Sulphur Spring: 7.7 mi
- Yellow Spring: 7.8 mi
- West Branch Trout Creek Spring: 9.6 mi
- Historical "Ancient Indian Spring": 16.4 mi
- Darling: 8.4 mi
- Milford Mills: 9.4 mi
- Fricks Locks Historic District: 16.0 mi
- Glenville: 19.6 mi
- Monkey Rock: 11.7 mi
- Millers Point: 18.5 mi
- King of Prussia Service Plaza: 12.9 mi
- Deepwater Rest Area: 21.8 mi
- Tinicum Rear Range Lighthouse: 20.6 mi
- Deemer's Beach: 23.5 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of American Helicopter Museum & Education Center. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fancy Hill | NNW 344° | 331 m | 24.0 mi |
| Sand Hill | NNW 347° | 318 m | 24.1 mi |
| Welsh Mountain | WNW 295° | 313 m | 20.4 mi |
| Williams Hill | NW 320° | 306 m | 19.0 mi |
| Chestnut Hill | NNW 329° | 305 m | 18.3 mi |
| Thomas Hill | NW 318° | 295 m | 17.2 mi |
| Brush | NW 326° | 288 m | 19.5 mi |
| Silver Hill | WNW 303° | 283 m | 24.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:07 | 18:39 | 19:14 |
| June solstice | 05:34 | 19:55 | 20:35 |
| September equinox | 06:51 | 18:26 | 19:01 |
| December solstice | 07:21 | 15:58 | 16:41 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 30 | 32 | 40 | 51 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 73 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 35 |
| Precip in | 3.6 | 3.1 | 4.6 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 5.7 | 4.8 | 3.5 | 4.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — W Chester 2 NW, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/26404227
Day trips start here
- Exton · 3 mi
- West Chester · 3 mi
- Malvern · 4 mi
- Downingtown · 7 mi
- Glen Mills · 7 mi
- Chadds Ford · 8 mi
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