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Douglas DC-3 Flagship Knoxville is the centerpiece of American Airlines ’ CR Smith Museum near DFW Airport in Texas .
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AND ARCHIVES IN THE USA
( 2024 EDITION )
IN OUR FEBRUARY 2020 ISSUE , Airways presented a directory of museums , archives , and libraries in the United States that curate material related to the airline industry . The following month ‚ March 2020 , those institutions shut down temporarily , as did the rest of the nation , to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic .
Now that the world is back up and running , we ’ ve decided to publish a directory once again . We have reached out to organizations affiliated with the Airline Archivists and Historians
Association ( AAHA ) and sent a questionnaire to each member institution asking about its facility ’ s location , hours of operation , availability to the public , etc . We also asked them to describe their holdings and , thus , what a visitor can expect to find at the archive or museum .
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