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  Location within New York  Cradle of Aviation Museum (the United States) | |
| Location | Uniondale, New York |
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| Type | Aviation museum |
| Founder | George C. Dade |
| Curator | Joshua Stoff |
| Public transit access | LIRR stations: Garden City, Mineola, Westbury |
| Website | www |
40°43′43″N 73°35′51″W / 40.7286°N 73.5976°W
The Cradle of Aviation Museum is an aerospace museum located in Uniondale, New York on Long Island, established to commemorate Long Island's part in the history of aviation. It is located on land once part of Mitchel Air Force Base which, together with nearby Roosevelt Field and other airfields on the Hempstead Plains, was the site of many historic flights. So many seminal flights had occurred in the area that, by the mid-1920s, the cluster of airfields was already dubbed the "Cradle of Aviation",[1] the origin of the museum's name.
Naming rights to the museum are held by Flagstar Bank.[2]
- ^ Basset, Preston, "The History of Aviation on Long Island", Sperry Rand Corporation, 1957.
- ^ Schachter, Ken (28 April 2021). "New York Community Bancorp to acquire Michigan's Flagstar Bancorp in $2.6 billion stock deal". Newsday. Retrieved 14 July 2024.