musem in CLT ?

[Humty72]

Does anyone know if that is some kind of air musem next to the runway 23 approach end? Saw some pretty nice stuff parked there as we landed..

 

[Bluestreak]

Here's a link:

http://www.chacweb.com/

 

[Flywrite]

It's not a bad little museum. It could use a little sprucing up and a touch of professionalism in the displays, but at the same time the informality of the place is cool. You can wander through the hangar looking over old junk without velvet ropes keeping you back.

There are a few neat airplanes there, such as one of two surviving Douglas D558 (I think) Skystreak jets. It was a forerunner to the X-1 and was an "X" plane before the term was really used. There is also the old Piedmont DC-3 once owned and operated around the airshow circuit by USAir. They still fly the DC-3 some as well as a pair of OV-10 Mohawks. The A-7 sitting outside was originally flown in in it's Desert Storm paint, complete with mission markings. For some reason they chose to repaint it. To me the paint it wore in combat seems more fitting than a museum paintjob.

Anyway, stop by there sometime, it's pretty cool for a small amateur museum.