Niagara Aerospace Museum

{{short description|Aviation museum in Niagara Falls, NY}}

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The Niagara Aerospace Museum is an aviation museum located in Niagara Falls, New York, in the old terminal building of the Niagara Falls International Airport. The museum has been located in a number of places in the Niagara Falls/Buffalo area. It had been located in the Niagara Office Building in downtown Niagara Falls and relocated in 2008 to the site of the then HSBC center on the waterfront in Buffalo, NY, where it was known as the Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum.{{cite web |url=http://www.wnyaerospace.org/the-museum.html |title=Museum History |publisher= Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528181222/http://www.wnyaerospace.org/the-museum.html |archivedate=28 May 2010}} In the summer of 2013, the museum moved to its current location.{{Cite web|url=http://wnyaerospace.org/?p=732|title=Home}}

Both Bell Aircraft Corporation and Curtiss-Wright Corporation had corporate headquarters, research & development (R&D), and manufacturing operations nearby in the middle of the twentieth century, and much of the material on display is from these two aviation companies. Among its many displays are many examples of early to mid-twentieth century piston, turbo-jet, turbo-shaft, and jet engines, as well as several static display aircraft including early Bell helicopters, an example of the World War II Bell P-39 Airacobra, and the Bell X-22 tilt-ducted-fan VSTOL aircraft.

The museum appointed Lindsey Lauren Visser as the new Executive Director director in March 2024.{{cite news |title=Niagara Aerospace Museum Names Lindsey Lauren Visser New Executive Director |url=http://www.niagara-gazette.com/news/local_news/niagara-aerospace-museum-names-lindsey-lauren-visser-new-executive-director/article_29fab4fa-e08d-11ee-a2bb-4b0fd3994354.html |access-date=2 April 2024 |work=Niagara Gazette |date=13 March 2024}}