{"id":7500,"date":"2016-10-21T16:57:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/?page_id=7500"},"modified":"2025-02-07T19:48:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:48:53","slug":"air-power-park","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/air-power-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Power Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Air Power Park<\/strong> in <strong>Hampton<\/strong>, <strong>Virginia<\/strong>, this free, 15-acre park features several vintage aircraft and experimental space launch vehicles from the 1950s and 1960s, including <strong>jets<\/strong>, <strong>missiles<\/strong> and <strong>rockets<\/strong>. Many of the displays have connections with nearby <strong>Langley Air Force Base<\/strong> and <strong>NASA Langley Research Center<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>413 W Mercury Blvd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hampton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Virginia 23666<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/north-america-2\/\">USA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hampton.gov\/facilities\/facility\/details\/Air-Power-Park-23\">https:\/\/www.hampton.gov\/facilities\/facility\/details\/Air-Power-Park-23<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>+1 (757) 726-0650<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daily 09:00 &#8211; 17:00<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years Day<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free admission<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d203813.56284619798!2d-76.5060619284205!3d37.04349446935594!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89ba8361b3363537%3A0x99c87084c253ebcc!2sAir+Power+Park!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1477060857364\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Aircraft collection<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/2016\/10\/21\/air-power-park-hampton\/little-joe-mercury-booster-used-in-testing-for-the-mercury-program\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7497\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Little-Joe-Mercury-booster-used-in-testing-for-the-Mercury-program.jpg\" alt=\"Little Joe\/Mercury, booster used in testing for the Mercury program\" class=\"wp-image-7497\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td>N520NA\/520<p><\/p>\n<p>51-9086<\/p>\n<p>69-0372\/ZZ<\/p>\n<p>56-0246<\/p>\n<p>51-3064\/FU-064<\/p>\n<p>54-2145\/1<\/p>\n<p>52-2129\/<span class=\"StandaardNoBG\">FV-129<\/span><\/p>\n<p>61-0073\/ME<\/p>\n<p>157500\/AC-300<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p><\/td><td>Hawker XV-6A Kestrel<p><\/p>\n<p>Lockheed T-33A<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell RF-4C Phantom<\/p>\n<p>McDonnell F-101F Voodoo<\/p>\n<p>North American F-86L Sabre<\/p>\n<p>North American F-100D Super Sabre<\/p>\n<p>Northrop F-89J Scorpion<\/p>\n<p>Republic F-105D Thunderchief<\/p>\n<p>Vought A-7E Corsair II<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><b>Rockets<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Corporal IRBM<\/p>\n<p>Javelin sounding rocket<\/p>\n<p>Jupiter IRBM<\/p>\n<p>Little Joe\/Mercury<\/p>\n<p>Mercury capsule<\/p>\n<p>Nike SAM<\/p>\n<p>Nike Ajax SAM<\/p>\n<p>Nike Hercules SAM<\/p>\n<p>Polaris A-2 SLBM<\/p>\n<p>Republic LTV-N-2 (V-1 rocket)<\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The indoor museum at the center of the park includes themed rooms with more than 325 models of aircraft, spacecraft and nautical vessels representing all the U.S. branches of service and some other nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Power Park in Hampton, Virginia, this free, 15-acre park features several vintage aircraft and experimental space launch vehicles from the 1950s and 1960s, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7500","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32972,"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7500\/revisions\/32972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationmuseum.eu\/Blogvorm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}