Hiller Aviation Museum

Aircraft on display

Where Inspiration Takes Flight!

Dedicated to the dreams of flight and the innovations of aviation pioneers, the museum chronicles over a century of history and provides a glimpse into air transportation’s future.

L-39 Albatros

L-39 Albatros

The Aero L-39 “Albatros” is a high performance military jet trainer developed in Czechoslovakia during the cold war. Pilots of the Warsaw Pact trained in the L-39 before moving up to MiG and Sukhoi jets.
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Space Ship One

Space Ship One

Winner of the $10 million Ansari X-Prize for the first successful flight of a privately financed commercial spacecraft, SpaceShipOne was a prototype aircraft to test the feasibility of carrying human passengers into suborbital space and back to earth.
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Rotorcycle

Rotorcycle

In 1954, Hiller Helicopters was selected by the Navy’s Bureau of Aeronautics to build a one man, foldable, self-rescue and observation helicopter.
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Black Diamond

Black Diamond

The Diamond airplane built by a couple of shipyard buddies in 1910 may not have been forever if it weren’t for the foresight to dig its pieces out of musty crates and build it again.
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Fokker Dr.1 Triplane

Fokker Dr.1 Triplane

The Hiller Aviation Museum’s replica aircraft was built by museum volunteers over a four year period between 2016-2020 in celebration of the 100+ anniversary of the aircraft. The aircraft is designed so visitors can sit in the open-air cockpit.
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Aerocycloid

Aerocycloid

The Aerocycloid was a concept aircraft, exploring VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) ideas which were truly “out-of-the-box” before the age of flight really even started.
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Santa Clara Glider

Santa Clara Glider

Built in 1905, this John Montgomery glider had tandem wings. It was flown from Aptos California in rather an unorthodox manner suspended from a hot air balloon which rose to 4,000 ft. altitude.
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