The Campaign to Preserve
The 1937-Terminal

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The only working Museum of Aviation History in New Hampshire

With Your Help Our History Will Inspire Young Eagles and Our Future will Soar.

The New Hampshire Aviation Historical society, Manchester Airport, the City of Manchester and Town of Londonderry, have come together to preserve The 1937-Terminal.  It will become the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire dedicated to our heroes of aviation – past and present!

The Campaign to Preserve The 1937-Terminal


The dream becomes a reality – with your help.
In 1937, this art deco terminal was a bold architectural statement for rural New Hampshire.  Now preservationists and aviators find common interest in its contemporary conversion and re-construction as the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire.  With unprecedented growth of Manchester Airport, how lucky we are to save The 1937-Terminal from the wrecker’s ball.  This icon of New Hampshire’s aviation history will be available for public use when we raise the 1.1 million dollars needed to convert the facility into a museum and educational center.

Students and adults will learn how Merit Bean, World War I veteran and UNH graduate, provided essential services to logging companies by establishing eleven airports in the White Mountains…how an open-cockpit Curtiss Mountain Oriole delivered delicacies to the guests at the Balsams Grand Resort Hotel…how Shirley Mahn from Whitefield rescued hikers and accident victims throughout the entire state…and how Joe Brigham long kept the Old Man on the Mountain!

The first aviators in New Hampshire helped to bring cultural, economic, intellectual and recreational opportunities to the Granite State.  Now their legacy will be preserved in this historic terminal.  In the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire managed by the New Hampshire Aviation Historical Society, the lives of those who wrote aviation history will once again inspire us.

Pioneers, adventurers and private citizens are all part of New Hampshire’s proud aviation legacy.  Together with their heroic contributions to Granite State history and your financial support, we will continue to “share  the dream” that began with powered flight in 1903.