Background In mid-1988, an F-4 was flown to the airport as a sling load underneath a helicopter and was placed on display a few months later.
Establishment The museum's building was dedicated on 11 November 1992. The restoration of the former base chapel, renamed the Lewellen Memorial Chapel, was completed in 1998. It opened a new exhibit called A Century of Flight in 2003 featuring a 1:4 scale replica of the
Wright Flyer. The museum broke ground on the Bruce Dalton Media Center, the first half of a two part expansion, in July 2009. It began construction of a second, addition in July 2013. The addition opened in April 2014 along with a new barracks exhibit. The Thomas Vickers/John C. Walter Artifacts & Restoration Center was dedicated in June 2018. The museum acquired a C-119 from
Greybull, Wyoming and began disassembling it in 2019. The last parts arrived in July of the following year and it was placed on display in May 2021. == Exhibits ==