Cradle of Aviation Museum
Cradle of Aviation Museum is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 27 m. Kennelwood Hill stands 156 m to the north-northwest, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Museum Row, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 16 miles off. 41 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in the East Garden City section of 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", the origin of the museum's name. Naming rights to the museum are held by Flagstar Bank.
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Wikidata Q5180482, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 15.8 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 20.9 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 21.7 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- Museum Row: 0.0 mi
- Nassau County Firefighters Museum: 0.0 mi
- Long Island Children Museum: 0.2 mi
- Flying Through the Years at Roosevelt Field: 1.1 mi
- African American Museum: 2.0 mi
- Museum Row: 0.1 mi
- Mitchel Athletic Complex: 0.2 mi
- Grove Park: 0.7 mi
- Custer Park: 0.9 mi
- Hofstra University Quad: 1.0 mi
- Hempstead Plains Preserve: 0.6 mi
- Francis Purcell Preserve: 0.7 mi
- East Meadow Bird Sanctuary: 2.8 mi
- Old Westbury Unique Area: 3.5 mi
- Garden City Bird Sanctuary,: 4.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 1.0 mi
- Sensory Garden: 1.0 mi
- Hofstra University Suburban Ecological Research Site: 1.1 mi
- Walled Garden: 3.0 mi
- Rose Garden: 3.0 mi
- Upright Motive No.9: 1.0 mi
- Dialogue between Plato and Socrates: 1.0 mi
- Trap: 1.0 mi
- Benjamin Franklin: 1.4 mi
- Dwight David Eisenhower: 1.6 mi
- Veterans Plaza: 1.0 mi
- Eisenhower Park Firefighters Memorial: 1.2 mi
- World War I Memorial: 1.6 mi
- Site of Camp Mills Base Hospital: 1.7 mi
- Village of East Meadow Monument: 2.2 mi
- Jamaica: 5.6 mi
- Recreated 1904 Wantagh Post Office: 5.6 mi
- Nautical Mile: 6.6 mi
- US Army Corps of Engineers Survey Point: 9.5 mi
- Oyster Bay Railroad Station Turntable: 10.8 mi
- Harry Tappen Beach: 8.0 mi
- Alhambra Beach: 8.2 mi
- Leeds Pond Beach: 8.3 mi
- Manhasset Bay Estates Association Beach: 8.4 mi
- PWEA Beach: 8.6 mi
- Harbor Hill: 5.4 mi
- Queens High Point: 6.7 mi
- Mannetto Hills: 8.8 mi
- West Hills: 10.6 mi
- Mill Neck Peak: 10.6 mi
- North Maples: 1.0 mi
- West Lindens: 1.0 mi
- Lindens B: 1.0 mi
- South Maples: 1.0 mi
- Cedars: 1.0 mi
- Cooper Bluff: 12.7 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 14.6 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 16.0 mi
- Caumsett State Historic Park Bluffs: 16.0 mi
- Duck Island Bluff: 17.8 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 11.7 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 12.7 mi
- Cold Spring Harbor Light: 13.2 mi
- Eatons Neck Light: 18.8 mi
- Stamford Harbor Ledge Light: 19.9 mi
- The Falls: 16.8 mi
- The Loch: 19.5 mi
- Binnen Falls: 19.9 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 20.0 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 20.1 mi
- Long Island Welcome Center: 15.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 23.6 mi
- Cuties Island: 21.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Cradle of Aviation Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennelwood Hill | NNW 340° | 156 m | 24.9 mi |
| Jayne's Hill | NE 56° | 122 m | 10.8 mi |
| Harbor Hill | NNW 336° | 106 m | 5.4 mi |
| West Hills | NE 55° | 106 m | 10.6 mi |
| Dix Hills | ENE 64° | 92 m | 14.2 mi |
| Signal Hill | ENE 63° | 90 m | 13.4 mi |
| Mannetto Hills | ENE 57° | 85 m | 8.8 mi |
| Bronx High Point | NW 306° | 85 m | 19.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:59 | 18:30 | 19:07 |
| June solstice | 05:24 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:43 | 18:17 | 18:53 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:47 | 16:31 |
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 | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 71 | 77 | 75 | 69 | 58 | 48 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.7 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 3.4 | 4.2 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Mineola, 1 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element node/7089432281
Day trips start here
- Nassau County · 1 mi
- Hempstead · 2 mi
- Mineola · 2 mi
- Garden City · 3 mi
- Merrick · 5 mi
- Rockville Centre · 5 mi
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