The Museum would like to announce that NASW Executive Director Joseph E. Salvatore, MD and Architectural Historian, Joan Berkey have released a new book titled Images of Aviation, Naval Air Station Wildwood.
The book will be available for sale at the museum gift shop. Mention that you saw it on our website and receive 10% discount.
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Over a year ago, the former control tower from Atlantic City’s Bader Field Airport arrived at Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) here needing restoration. The tower arrived disassembled with steel girders and a catwalk in a stack and the control section sitting on a flatbed trailer.
Naval Air Wildwood is featured in an article by Kevin McKinney in AircraftOwner Online Magazine, “Old Meets News at a Southern New Jersey Aviation Museum.”
The Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum in Rio Grande, NJ, boasts an impressive collection of some 19 classic flying machines in its historic 1943 hangar. There’s the Boeing-Stearman PT-17 Kaydet, one of the most widely used basic trainers during World War II.
Also, housed in the museum’s 92,000 square-foot, all-wooden hangar is the “Huey” helicopter, which first appeared during the Vietnam War. Perhaps, the museum’s most prized possession is the TBM-3E Avenger, a World War II torpedo bomber — one of just seven aircraft in the country to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
