New England Air Museum
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New England Air Museum is a museum in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 48 m. Washington Hill stands 359 m to the west, 12 miles off. The nearest named place is HU-16E "Albatross", a attraction 0.1 miles away. Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20) passes 19 miles off.
The story
The New England Air Museum (NEAM) is an American aerospace museum located adjacent to Bradley International Airport in Windsor Locks, Connecticut. The museum consists of three display hangars with additional storage and restoration hangars. Its collections include aircraft ranging from early flying machines to supersonic jets, as well as engines, and other pieces of flight-related equipment. Significant aircraft include
the Silas Brooks balloon basket - the oldest surviving American-built aircraft the Sikorsky VS-44A - the sole remaining American-built commercial trans-oceanic four-engine flying boat the Goodyear ZNPK-28 Blimp Control Car - one of only two surviving K-class control cars in the world. The museum library has approximately 6,000 aviation books, approximately 20,000 periodicals, approximately 10,000 technical manuals, approximately 21,000 photographs, nearly 8,000 slides, over 200 pieces of artwork, over 1,200 prints, and approximately 500 engineering drawing and blueprints. The mission of the New England Air Museum is to present the story of aviation, the human genius that made it possible and the profound effects that it has had on the way in which we live.
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Dates from 1959.
Wikidata Q7007140, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 18.8 mi off the Jacob's Ladder Trail (Route 20)
- 22.0 mi off the Route 112 Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Summit House · 25 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- 9/11 Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Connecticut Fallen Firefighters Memorial: 0.2 mi
- Veterans' Memorial: 3.1 mi
- Suffield Academy Bell: 3.2 mi
- Kotchen Quadrangle: 3.4 mi
- Taintor Hill: 1.1 mi
- Prospect Hill: 1.7 mi
- Round Hill: 1.9 mi
- Peak Mountain: 2.6 mi
- Birges Hill: 2.7 mi
- Daniel K. Christian Field: 1.2 mi
- Northridge Park: 2.0 mi
- Denslow Street Park: 2.2 mi
- Bazin N. Bruce Memorial Park: 2.4 mi
- Rainbow Reservoir Boat Launch: 2.4 mi
- John and Madeline McLean Outdoor Educational Preserve: 1.9 mi
- Thrall Park: 2.1 mi
- Spring Park: 2.2 mi
- Suffield Land Conservancy, Inc.(Remington Street): 2.2 mi
- Rainbow Park: 2.2 mi
- King House Museum: 2.7 mi
- Old Newgate Prison and Copper Mine: 3.0 mi
- Tobacco Museum: 3.4 mi
- Connecticut Trolley Museum: 5.0 mi
- Connecticut Fire Truck and Motor Coach Museum: 5.0 mi
- Cow: 7.8 mi
- Cow Mermaid Statue: 9.0 mi
- Bike Sculpture: 9.3 mi
- Freedom Eagle: 9.6 mi
- Tumble Brook Sculpture: 10.1 mi
- Phelps-Hatheway Garden: 2.9 mi
- Back Garden: 3.0 mi
- Front Garden: 3.0 mi
- Front Garden: 3.0 mi
- Side Garden: 3.0 mi
- HU-16E "Albatross": 0.1 mi
- C-7A "Caribou": 0.1 mi
- A-3B "Skywarrior": 0.1 mi
- Smaug's Lair sign: 3.7 mi
- Manure Spreader: 6.6 mi
- Carpenter's Falls: 8.4 mi
- Northgate Falls: 8.6 mi
- Westledge Trail Cascades: 8.8 mi
- Cathles Trail Falls: 9.2 mi
- Beach Brook Falls: 9.2 mi
- Hart Meadow: 12.7 mi
- Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 12.7 mi
- Garden Wall: 12.8 mi
- Superstructure: 13.7 mi
- Solar Panel: 13.7 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 5.5 mi
- Babbs Beach: 6.5 mi
- Sandy Beach: 16.4 mi
- Haviland Pond Beach: 19.0 mi
- Holland Beach: 20.5 mi
- Big Spring: 16.0 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 16.1 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2 2:46: 17.1 mi
- Rd: 17.1 mi
- Unnamed Bridge 2:43: 17.1 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 7.6 mi
- Szot Park Picnic Grove: 14.4 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 20.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 20.6 mi
- Gay City State Park: 20.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 12.2 miles of New England Air Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington Hill | W 272° | 359 m | 11.5 mi |
| South Mountain | NW 306° | 357 m | 11.5 mi |
| Sodom Mountain | NW 316° | 326 m | 10.8 mi |
| Pine Cone | W 271° | 323 m | 9.3 mi |
| West Ledge | WSW 250° | 305 m | 10.1 mi |
| Talcott Mountain | SSW 211° | 276 m | 10.9 mi |
| Onion Mountain | WSW 238° | 253 m | 11.4 mi |
| Ely Mound | SSW 208° | 246 m | 12.2 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:16 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:38 | 16:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 27 | 30 | 38 | 50 | 60 | 69 | 74 | 73 | 65 | 53 | 42 | 33 |
| Precip in | 3.3 | 3.1 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.5 | 3.5 | 4.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford-bradley Intl AP, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/1287273212
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 7 mi
- Longmeadow · 9 mi
- Somers · 13 mi
- Hampden · 16 mi
- Tolland · 17 mi
- Holyoke · 18 mi
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