Pearson Air Museum

The Pearson Air Museum is a place-based aviation museum at Pearson Field in Vancouver, Washington, USA. Managed by the National Park Service as part of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, museum exhibits provide an opportunity for visitors to explore aviation history tied to Pearson Field and Vancouver Barracks.

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Type: Museum
Description: aviation museum in Vancouver, Washington
Address: 1115 East 5th Street, Vancouver, WA 98661

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Pearson Airpark and Vancouver Land Bridge.

Pearson Airpark

Aerodrome

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Pearson Field also once known as Pearson Airpark, is a city-owned municipal airport located one mile southeast of the central business district of Vancouver, a city in Clark County, Washington, United States.

Vancouver Land Bridge

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The Vancouver Land Bridge connects Vancouver Waterfront Park to the Vancouver, Washington portion of the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site using a path similar to an ancient Native American trail. Vancouver Land Bridge is situated 3,000 feet west of Pearson Air Museum.

Vancouver Community Library

Library

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The Vancouver Community Library is a library in Vancouver, Washington, in the United States. Part of the Fort Vancouver Regional Library District, the 83,000-square-foot library is the second largest in the Portland metropolitan area, second to the Central Library in Portland, Oregon. Vancouver Community Library is situated 3,600 feet northwest of Pearson Air Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Officers Row and Vancouver.

Officers Row

Locality

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Officers Row, a part of the Vancouver National Historic Reserve Historic District, is a congregation of 21 of the former homes of U.S. military officers stationed at the Vancouver Barracks in Vancouver, Washington.

Vancouver

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Vancouver is a city in southwest Washington State, immediately north of the border with Oregon. The city was established around Fort Vancouver, a fur trading outpost dating back to 1824, making this one of the oldest continuously-inhabited European communities in the Pacific Northwest.

Hayden Island

Suburb

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Hayden Island is an island in the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. The wide main channel of the Columbia passes north of the island.

Pearson Air Museum

Categories: aviation museum, building, tourism, hangar, and tourist attraction
Location: City of Vancouver, Clark County, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

45.62394° or 45° 37′ 26″ north

Longitude

-122.65628° or 122° 39′ 23″ west

Elevation

43 feet (13 metres)

Wheelchair access

yes

Open location code

84QVJ8FV+HF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 148510649

OpenStreetMap feature

building=hangar

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

GeoNames ID

11594117

Wikidata ID

Q12859331

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In Other Languages

“Pearson Air Museum” goes by many names.

French: “musée de l’aviation Pearson”
French: “Musée de l’aviation Pearson”

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