March Field Air Museum

01/11/2025

A great addition to the museums collection! Our new block ten F-16 was moved on to the flightline today after the restoration crew, with the assistance of the 144th det 1, completed its work

12/31/2024

March Field Air Museum once again has openings for unpaid college internship opportunities. A great opportunity to help complete your degree requirements. Please contact [email protected], if interested.

MFAM Digitization Intern:
- Digitize historical photographs, documentation and records dating from 1903 to today.
- Accessioning digitized materials into Collective Access database, including providing metadata.

MFAM A/V Intern:
- Organizing and digitizing Oral History videos and audio in various formats such as VHS, DVD, cassette tape, and more.
- Conversion of said materials into digitized MP4 format.
- Accessioning digitized materials into Collective Access database, including providing metadata, and housing into Cloud storage.

MFAM Collection Management Intern:
- Organizing, labeling, accessioning various military aviation artifacts to obtain a holistic overview of general collection management and database knowledge.

MFAM Aeronautical/Aviation Engineering Intern:
- Organizing maintenance/flight manuals, pilot handbooks, parts catalogs, and more.
- Accessioning digitized materials into Collective Access database, including providing metadata.

MFAM Architectural/Blueprint Specialist Intern:
- Organizing and digitizing base/facility blueprints and aircraft schematics.
- Accessioning digitized materials into Collective Access database, including providing metadata.

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12/31/2024

March Field Air Museum wishes you all a very Happy and Healthy New Year!

12/11/2024

What a great two days at the March Field Air Museum! Over one hundred volunteers from KB Homes have been at the museum since Monday helping with the restoration of our B-25 Mitchell bomber and Minuteman II ICBM.
Incredible work by dedicated volunteers from a fantastic, community oriented company. And they will be back tomorrow !

12/07/2024

83 years ago today, the forces of Imperial Japan attacked the United States Naval and Army facilities at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Intended as a death blow to U.S. interests in the Pacific, the attack brought the United States into the Second World War and doomed the ambitions of totalitarianism across the globe.

Today we remember the sacrifice and courage of those who fought to defeat fascism and are reminded to be eternally thankful such heroes existed.

11/26/2024

Check out the below link for a great news report on the museums flightline aircraft panel project.

A local 17-year-old made it his mission to preserve his grandfather's legacy by revamping the March Field Air Museum to become an Eagle Scout. Rick Montanez ...

11/23/2024

It's on the way!!!

10/25/2024

10/14/2024

🎃 Wings & Treats: A Spooktacular Evening at March Field Air Museum! ✈️

🗓 Date: October 19th
🕕 Time: 6-9 PM
📍 Location: March Field Air Museum – 22550 Van Buren Blvd Riverside, CA

Get ready for a night where history meets mystery! Join us as the March Field Air Museum transforms into a Halloween wonderland filled with festive lights and family-friendly frights.

✨ Event Highlights:

•Trick-or-Treating Adventure: Little monsters can wander through our historic aircraft, collecting treats along the way! Don’t forget to bring your own trick-or-treat container—there will be plenty of goodies for everyone!

•Free Admission: Enjoy a night of high-flying fun at no cost! Perfect for ghouls and goblins of all ages.

•Easy Parking: Free on-site parking makes your arrival a breeze—no hunting for a spot!

Although we won’t have a beer garden this year, we promise a night filled with thrills and delightful sights!

Join us at the March Field Air Museum for an unforgettable evening among the stars (and stripes). We can’t wait to celebrate Halloween with you!

Free registration at

Prepare for a spooktacular evening at the March Field Air Museum's "Wings & Treats" event!

10/09/2024

It’s all done! Our new Moroccan MiG-17 is finished and heading for its place on MiG row at MFAM.

Great job to everyone involved from the transportation crew who brought he down from Seattle to the crack restoration crew who put her back together and beautifully restored her to its original livery.

Another big thank you to the Museum of Flight in Seattle for donating the aircraft to March Field.

Photo one is our restoration, photo two is an original shot shot as the MiG arrived in the U S over forty years ago.

09/18/2024

Happy 77th birthday to the most powerful military force in the history of mankind, the United States Air Force!
Fly Fight and Win!

09/14/2024

Fantastic article regarding our flightline upgrade. Aiden has done a spectacular job!

09/13/2024

Meet our 2024 Champions of Flight honoree, Lt. Col. Ed Yeilding!

Ed Yeilding, Lt Col (ret), was born 1949, oldest of five, raised in Florence AL near the end of Cypress Mill Road, up the hill from Cypress Creek, and in 1963 became an Eagle Scout with Troop 287, Scoutmasters Ted Margolin and Henrick Aune. He graduated from Coffee High in 1967. He was an electrical engineering coop student at Auburn University, working in Tennessee at Arnold Engineering Development Complex and at TVA’s Cumberland Steam Plant, and commissioned through ROTC. After pilot training at Williams AFB AZ, his assignments were: the RF-4 at Bergstrom AFB TX and Okinawa Japan, the F-4E fighter at Moody AFB GA, the SR-71 at Beale AFB and Palmdale CA, and the C-20 at Andrews AFB near Washington DC. While at Moody AFB in 1982, he earned a Masters in Management through an extension of Troy University.

In 1983, he was selected for the SR-71 at Beale AFB CA. He flew 93 SR-71 overseas reconnaissance missions and became an SR-71 instructor pilot and developmental test pilot. When the SR-71 fleet was retired in 1990, the Smithsonian Institution requested one for display and requested an official coast-to-coast aircraft speed record to call the public’s attention to the retirement of the amazing SR-71 and to honor all the highly dedicated Americans who designed, maintained, supported, and flew the SR-71 during its 25 years of vital Cold War service. Departing California March 6, 1990, SR-71 tail 972, pilot Ed Yeilding, and RSO (Reconnaissance Systems Officer) JT Vida set that record, plus three city-to-city speed records. The four records still stand. Cruise speed was the flight manual limit, Mach 3.3, 2190 miles per hour, reaching an altitude that day of 83,000 feet, flying coast-to-coast in 67 minutes 54 seconds. That SR-71 is on display at the Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center near Dulles International Airport west of Washington DC.

In his next assignment, at Andrews AFB MD, 1990-’96, Ed flew world-wide Special Air Missions in the C-20. His passengers included the Vice President, four-star generals, cabinet members, senators, congressmen, ambassadors, and First Ladies.

After 23 years of active military service, Ed next flew the DC-9, DC-10, and the 747-400 for Northwest Airlines, retiring in 2009 as a Delta pilot after the airlines merged. In 2007, he was added to the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, in 2008 to the Walk of Honor near the Marriott Shoals Hotel in Florence AL, and in 2011 named Distinguished Eagle Scout. His military awards include three Meritorious Service Medals, four Air Medals, three Commendation Medals, six Outstanding Unit Awards, and four Combat Readiness Medals.

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About Champions of Flight Join us for an extraordinary evening celebrating the pioneers of aviation at the prestigious Champions of Flight fundraiser,

09/11/2024

The Vietnam Firebase at the Museum looked like a scene right out of Apocalypse Now, due to the Airport Fire in Orange County.

09/07/2024

Busy day at the March Field Air Museum with some great exhibit additions. Subjects include Operation Enduring Freedom, the evolution of Flight Helmets, Lt Harold Compere (the first pilot to land at March Field), Chief Warrant Officer Yoakum, DSC, and WW I aerial combat.

08/30/2024

🎉 Exciting news! Our friends at Hangar 24 Craft Brewing are launching a brand-new taproom! 🍻 Swing by to support this fantastic local brewery, explore some cool artifacts from the March Field Air Museum, and sip on some delicious brews.

Cheers to Hangar 24 Brewing—congratulations on the new space! 🎉🚀

Taproom grand opening on Sunday, Sept 1 @ 11AM

The new craft beer spot and eatery is in the former home of Romano’s Canyon Crest, which closed in June 2023.