Yanks Air Museum

About The Museum:

The Yanks Air Museum, a - 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is focused exclusively on American aviation history and technology. The collection now numbers more than 120 aircraft and continues to grow. The scope of the collection covers the entire history of American aviation, from Jennies to Jets.

Some of the aircraft currently on display are the sole surviving example of its type, while many others are rare birds in that perhaps only a precious few of that type exist today.

The present location of The Yanks Air Museum is the Chino Airport in Chino, California where it has enjoyed steady growth over the past two decades. Located some 50 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, the museum is conveniently located in the nations largest metroplex, providing a huge local audience. Additionally, Chino Airport is well recognized as one of the centers of aircraft restoration and preservation with several different companies that provide those services co-located on the airport property.

The museum aircraft have been restored in-house with great attention to detail so that both flying and static aircraft are considered exemplary examples of their type. Great care and effort has been made to conform to the original manufacturer's specifications in all restoration projects.

The existing museum campus extends over 5½ acres and includes 76,600 square feet of display, restoration, and storage buildings with additional open-air storage areas. Steady growth of the museum has inspired future plans to expand the Chino facility to accommodate additional aircraft, artifacts and a multi-media education center.

In recent years great steps have been taken to continue the museums acquisition of exhibit aircraft as well as to assemble additional features and programs that will support the display, education and entertainment goals of the museum. These features include continued expansion of the Reference Library as well as major additions to the Photo Archive Collection. More recently, Yanks Air Museum has acquired for display a very impressive collection of scale models that reflect the history of the first half-century of aviation. A large collection of aviation related artifacts have been gathered from all areas American aviation history.