The Rowland Freedom Center is a nonprofit aviation and military museum located at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville, California. Its mission is to honor America’s aviation heroes and technology of the past, present, and future. Visitors can explore a variety of exhibits featuring historic aircraft, including the Yakovlev Yak-11, a Soviet military trainer aircraft developed in the late 1940s
Center for Freedom & Flight (former name)
300 County Airport Rd Suite C4,
Vacaville, CA 95688
Daily 10:00 – 16:00
Admission fee
Aircraft collection
| N5DD 67-17146 N281AH – NC14963 N20PV N45070/2804 N103AS N17352 NC949H | Aviat Pitts S-1 Special Bell UH-1H Iroquois Bell UH-1H Iroquois Gonzales Brothers Biplane Kinner Playboy R Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 North American T-28B Trojan Ryan STA Waco CTO |
Among the current exhibits on display are a replica of General George S. Patton’s briefing room, an authentic Willy’s Jeep from 1944, a replica of General Erwin Rommel’s W31 Command Car used in the 1951 movie “The Desert Fox,” the remains of a B-25 that crashed near Lake Berryessa in 1954, a replica of a Japanese Zero created for the 1970 film “Tora! Tora! Tora!,” a 1935 Kinner Playboy plane, a 1937 Ryan STA that was displayed at the Nut Tree Restaurant for many years and a tractor biplane constructed by teen brothers Willy and Arthur Gonzales in 1912. Built in San Francisco, it is considered one of the first planes to be successfully flown in the Bay Area.
Photo Rowland Freedom Center