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The museum was dedicated to the life and works of Chanute, the former air base, the history of aviation in the state of Illinois, and hosted an annual air show . Highlights of the museum included a collection of over 40 aircraft including military fighters, bombers, rescue, recon, and cargo aircraft.
- 1 November 2015
- Rantoul, Illinois
- 8 October 1994
- Aviation museum
Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum. Aviation and Aerospace Museums. 1011 Pacesetter Drive Rantoul Illinois 61866-3672 United States. (217) 893-1613. http://www.aeromuseum.org/ The Chanute Air Museum is dedicated to collect, preserve, exhibit, and interpret aviation and aerospace artifacts.
After the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum closed in 2015 the exhibits were dispersed and this aircraft is now displayed at the Frost Science Museum, Miami, FL. Registration / Serial: 63-8441
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The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, in Rantoul, Illinois, USA, was located at the former Chanute AFB. The base was a key technical training center for the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force since 1917. Chanute closed in 1993, and the museum opened in 1994, comprised largely of aircraft that were already on display around the base.
The base was decommissioned in 1993 and converted to peacetime endeavors. One of these endeavors was the now-closed Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, which detailed the history of Chanute Air Force Base and of aviation in general, and included a replica of Chanute's 1896 glider.
- French, American
To a very considerable extent, Octave Chanute, a French-born, Chicago-based engineer, did. His personal investigations into the problems of flight measurably advanced knowledge about powered flight in the 1890s, and he shared that knowledge with the Wrights as they undertook the research that led to their successful 1903 test flights.
Octave Chanute (born Feb. 18, 1832, Paris, France—died Nov. 23, 1910, Chicago, Ill., U.S.) was a leading American civil engineer and aeronautical pioneer. (Read Orville Wright’s 1929 biography of his brother, Wilbur.) Immigrating to the United States with his father in 1838, Chanute attended private schools in New York City.
