Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum
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Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is a museum in Washington, at a modelled elevation of 180 m. Mount Pilchuck stands 1,584 m to the east-northeast, 25 miles off. The nearest named place is Landing Zone, a artwork 0.6 miles away. Cascade Loop passes 1.5 miles off. 29 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the display and preservation of rare military aircraft, tanks and other military equipment. The museum reopened on the Memorial Day Weekend 2023. On rotation in the three working hangars are military artifacts from the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and the Soviet Union. The Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum is based at Seattle-Paine Field International Airport in Everett, Washington. Mechanics are typically on-site Monday through Friday, working on maintaining the technology and operating condition. The museum provides guided tours three days a week, hosts a variety of activities, features war conflict simulators, and possesses historical artifacts.
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Dates from 2004.
Wikidata Q5463437, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 1.5 mi off the Cascade Loop, National
- 3.6 mi off the MUKILTEO TO CLINTON
- 5.8 mi off the Stevens Pass Greenway, National
- 6.1 mi off the CLINTON FERRY ZONE VIC WHIDBEY ISLAND TO JCT SR 20 VIC KEYSTON FERRY ZONE
Overlooks nearby
- Ralph E. White Memorial Obsercation Deck · 12 mi
- Agate Street Road End · 18 mi
- Sanwick Place Road End · 18 mi
- Whitty Way Public Road End · 18 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Landing Zone: 0.6 mi
- Aumangea: 2.1 mi
- Paper airplain sculpture 2: 3.1 mi
- Paper airplane sculpture 1: 3.1 mi
- Paper airplane sculpture 3: 3.1 mi
- Paine Field Community Park: 0.6 mi
- Play Area: 1.1 mi
- Harbour Pointe Villiage Park: 1.2 mi
- 92nd Street Park: 1.3 mi
- Loganberry Estates Park: 1.3 mi
- Kitchen Garden: 1.2 mi
- Bog, Alpine Rock, Crevice, and Cactus Garden: 3.0 mi
- Rain Garden: 3.0 mi
- Peter Wolcott Native Garden: 3.0 mi
- Master Gardener Landscape Gardens: 3.0 mi
- Mukilteo Natural Reserve: 1.4 mi
- Possession Point State Park: 4.5 mi
- Glendale Trust Land: 5.4 mi
- Forgotten Creek Nature Area: 6.0 mi
- Shelton View Forest: 8.1 mi
- Future of Flight Aviation Center & Boeing Tour: 1.6 mi
- Genealogical Society: 5.6 mi
- Superintendent's Cottage: 5.6 mi
- Wickers Building: 5.7 mi
- Imagine Children's Museum: 6.3 mi
- Flying Squirrel Trampoline Park: 3.2 mi
- AR Workshop Mill Creek: 3.5 mi
- The Washington State Corn Maze: 5.8 mi
- Lake Stevens Monster: 10.2 mi
- Efeste Winery: 10.6 mi
- Point Elliott Treaty Monument: 3.4 mi
- Korean War: 5.3 mi
- Gold Star Families Memorial Monument: 5.3 mi
- Eisenhower White Ash Tree: 5.3 mi
- Rucker Mausoleum: 5.7 mi
- Sunset Beach: 7.5 mi
- Olympic Beach: 7.8 mi
- Marina Beach: 8.4 mi
- Dog Beach: 8.5 mi
- Spring Beach: 11.4 mi
- Lord Hill: 10.3 mi
- Devils Butte: 10.5 mi
- Norway Hill: 11.2 mi
- Bald Hill: 12.3 mi
- Getchell Hill: 13.5 mi
- Richmond Beach Saltwater Park: 10.4 mi
- The Clearing: 11.9 mi
- Lion's Centennial Pavilion: 12.3 mi
- Site #2: 12.7 mi
- Site #1: 12.8 mi
- McCauley Falls: 17.8 mi
- Ludlow Falls: 19.8 mi
- Waterwall: 20.6 mi
- Cherry Creek Falls: 20.8 mi
- Explorer Falls: 20.9 mi
- Scatchet Head: 6.5 mi
- White Bluff: 7.7 mi
- Fiddlers Bluff: 9.0 mi
- Top of bluff: 10.8 mi
- Double Bluff: 13.4 mi
- Ladder Storage: 3.6 mi
- Oil House: 3.6 mi
- Quarters A: 3.6 mi
- Quarters B: 3.6 mi
- Mukilteo Lighthouse: 3.6 mi
- Silver Lake Rest Area (closed): 3.1 mi
- Smokey Point Southbound Rest Area: 19.1 mi
- Smokey Point Northbound Rest Area: 19.1 mi
- Licton Springs: 14.1 mi
- Ravenna Park Sulfur Spring: 15.8 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Flying Heritage & Combat Armor Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pilchuck | ENE 64° | 1,584 m | 24.9 mi |
| Dahlberg Mountain | NE 43° | 582 m | 22.2 mi |
| Elwell | ESE 111° | 505 m | 23.2 mi |
| Iron Mountain | NE 50° | 328 m | 20.5 mi |
| Platts Lookout | ESE 114° | 308 m | 21.6 mi |
| Bald Hill | ESE 111° | 217 m | 12.3 mi |
| Union Hill | SE 140° | 204 m | 21.4 mi |
| Ring Hill | SE 132° | 179 m | 15.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:13 | 18:41 | 19:22 |
| June solstice | 05:11 | 20:24 | 21:13 |
| September equinox | 06:57 | 18:28 | 19:09 |
| December solstice | 07:57 | 15:26 | 16:19 |
Local time (America/Los_Angeles).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 42 | 45 | 49 | 55 | 59 | 64 | 64 | 60 | 52 | 45 | 40 |
| Precip in | 3.9 | 2.8 | 3.6 | 2.7 | 2.1 | 1.9 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 5.0 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Everett Snohomish CO AP, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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