Location | Sonoma, California |
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Coordinates | 38°13′27″N 122°27′23″W / 38.2241°N 122.4564°W |
Type | Aviation museum |
Founder | Chris Prevost |
Website | www |
The North Bay Air Museum is an aviation museum located at Sonoma Valley Airport in Sonoma, California.
Chris Prevost became interested in aviation after visiting the Sonoma Valley Airport on a field trip. In 1984, he took over the Vintage Aircraft Company, which had been founded in 1975, and began offering rides in Stearman biplanes.[1] Eventually, he became co-owner of the airport in 2002 and bought it outright in 2008.[2][1] The following year he flew a P-40 that had been purchased as a wreck from New Zealand and under restoration since 2004.[3][4]
Prevost began planning for the California Aviation Heritage Museum in June 2010.[5]
The museum offers rides in two aircraft on loan to it.[11]