The Air Mobility Command Museum has once again been awarded the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Award, honoring the Travelers’ Choice, Best of the Best, representing the most exceptional, highest-rated properties around the world. These businesses are among the top 10% of all listings on Tripadvisor. The award singles out not just popular choices, but truly exceptional ones that travelers keep coming back for and is the highest honor Tripadvisor can bestow. Based on millions of reviews and opinions from travelers from around the world, this annual award recognizes the very best tourism establishments in terms of service, quality, customer satisfaction and more, across a range of categories. This is proof that we have a world class museum right here in Dover, Delaware.

The award is a testament to our amazing Museum Team. “Special” is over 100 dedicated volunteers that provide thousands of hours restoring history, provide educational tours and outreach, sell a souvenir in our gift store, modernize our research library, schedule military ceremonies, keep the museum in tip-top shape, and perform many other duties for everyone to enjoy the museum.

This would also not be possible without you, our fabulous visitors from across the globe taking the time to review and comment on your experience while visiting the Air Mobility Command Museum.

On behalf of the entire Museum Staff, thank you to all who have helped make this possible, and we look forward to seeing you soon!

The Air Mobility Command Museum is proud to begin sharing guided video and panoramic tours of our aircraft. Many of you cannot visit the museum in-person, so we hope you enjoy these videos and a glimpse into our military aviation history.

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The C-119B Flying Boxcar was assigned to the 314th Troop Carrier Group stationed at Ashia AB, Japan flying direct combat support missions during the Korean War. It is the second oldest C-119 in existence and it is the only surviving aircraft from the operation that air-dropped mobile bridge sections to Marines during the “Chosin Reservoir” rescue mission. The museum restoration team is currently in the process of getting the aircraft prepared for exterior painting and restoring the inside instrument configurations. The C-119 is on schedule to be painted this summer and later in the year the museum will dedicate this historic aircraft and its accomplishments to the Korean War Veterans.

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The KB-50J Superfortress arrived from MacDill AFB, Florida, with severe corrosion to major structural parts of the aircraft. The museum restoration crew have been hard at work with support from the 436^th and 512^th Airlift wing sheet metal experts. In May, the museum will host a visit for members of the TAC Tanker Association that flew and maintained the museum KB-50J aircraft back in the day.  The museum team is honored to be able to restore this aircraft and host the TAC Tanker reunion visit in May.

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