The Carolinas Aviation Museum has been renamed the Sullenberger Aviation Museum in honor of Capt. C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger.
The name change recognizes Sullenberger's heroic ditching of US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River in 2009, an event dubbed the "Miracle on the Hudson," with no loss of life.
The museum, which houses the Airbus 320 from Flight 1549, plans a groundbreaking for a new 105,000-square-foot facility in September 2023, aiming to open by year-end as a premier aviation and STEM education center.
The museum formerly known as the Carolinas Aviation Museum has a new name: the Sullenberger Aviation Museum.
The name change is in honor of Capt. C.B. “Sully” Sullenberger, who along with copilot Jeff Skiles, ditched US Airways Flight 1549 safely in New York’s Hudson River after losing power in both engines.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
