National Soaring Museum

The National Soaring Museum (NSM) is an aviation museum in Elmira , New York , USA , dedicated to the history of gliding .

history

The museum was founded in 1969 on Harris Hill near Elmira. The site was chosen because of its proximity to the Swiss Aircraft Corporation and its importance for American gliding. From 1930 to 1946 13 national gliding competitions were held here.

Exhibits

The collection includes the following aircraft:

Backstrom EPB-1A Flying Plank Backstrom EPB-1C Flying Plank Baker McMillen Cadet Berkshire Concept 70 Bowlus BS-100 Super Albatross Bowlus BA-100 Baby Albatross Bowlus BA-102 Baby Albatross Bowlus Senior Albatross Briegleb BG-12BD Chanute-Herring 1896 glider Croff Batwing Culver Rigid Midget DFS Olympia Titmouse Elmira Dagling Primary Franklin PS-2 (four pieces) Franklin-Stevens PS-2 Glass wing BS-1 Glass wing H-301 Schuemann Libelle Glass wing H-301B dragonfly Göppingen Gö 3 Minimoa Göppingen Gö 1 Wolf Gross Sky Ghost Hall Cherokee II RM Hall Ibex Herring-Arnot 1897 glider Hutter H-17

Johnson Adastra Laister LP-15 Nugget Laister-Kauffman LK-10 Marske Genesis I Miller Tern Mitchell Nimbus III Mitchell U-2 Nelson BB-1 Dragonfly Nelson Hummingbird (two pieces) Niemi Sisu Niemi Sisu 1-A PZL PW-5 Smyk Peel flying boat Perl PG-130 penetrator Phoebus C Pratt-Read PR-G1 Prue IIA Prue 215 Rogallo Wing Ross R-6 Ross-Johnson RJ-5 L-sparrow washer 55 Schleicher ASW 12 Schleicher Ka-6E Shredder HP-8 Airmate

Shredder HP-10 Shredder HP-11A Airmate Shredder HP-16 Shredder HP-18 Swiss SGP 1-1 Swiss SGU 1-7 Swiss SGU 1-19 (three aircraft) Swiss SGS 1-23D and 1-23HM Schweizer-Burr SGS 1-24 "Brigadoon" Swiss SGS 1-26 Swiss SGS 1-26E Swiss SGS 1-29 Swiss SGS 1-35 Swiss SGS 2-8 Swiss SGS 2-12 Swiss SGS 2-32 (two aircraft) Slingsby UT-1 Dawydoff Cadet Slingsby Kirby Gull Slingsby T.3 Primary Slingsby T.43 Skylark III Waco CG-4A Wright 1902 Glider (replica) Wright 1911 Glider (replica) Pupil school glider

Web links

• Welcome to the National Soaring Museum! National Soaring Museum, 2019, accessed on May 3, 2019 (English, website of the museum): “The National Soaring Museum preserves and presents the heritage of motorless flight, and promotes through education, a greater knowledge of soaring, aeronautics, and related physical sciences for everyone. " 
• Norbert Mosson: retroplane.net. Retrieved January 12, 2017 (English, pictures from the collection). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Glider Collection. National Soaring Museum, 2019, accessed May 3, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 42 ° 7 ′ 18 ″  N , 76 ° 54 ′ 5 ″  W.