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Museums, galleries & stages / East Side (Coleman A. Young International Airport)

Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum

Museum honoring America's first Black military aviators, now based at Coleman A. Young airport with real warbirds and a flight academy.

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Tuskegee Airmen themselves founded this museum, led by members of the Detroit Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., the first chapter in the nation. With help from Mayor Coleman A. Young, it opened at Historic Fort Wayne in 1987; today the main site is at Coleman A. Young International Airport, home to its flight academy, youth programs and War Birds including a Stearman, a T-6 and a BT-13. A separate Tuskegee Airmen exhibit sits inside the Charles H. Wright Museum in Midtown.

  1. Main site at Coleman A. Young International Airport
  2. Stearman, T-6 and BT-13 warbirds
  3. Founded by the Airmen, opened in 1987
  4. Second exhibit inside the Charles H. Wright Museum
  5. Fort Wayne site currently closed to tours

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