F-4 Phantom on display at the North American Aerospace Museum in McMinniville, Oregon [Credit: Terry Howell/NAAM]
Key Takeaways:
The North American Aerospace Museum (NAAM) in McMinnville, Oregon, formerly the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, houses an extensive collection of fighter aircraft.
The museum's collection, including its "Fighter Town USA" exhibit, showcases "four generations" of both U.S. and Soviet fighters, often displayed paired with their historical adversaries.
NAAM illustrates the significant evolution of fighter technology, detailing advancements from early jet-powered models and supersonic flight to sophisticated avionics, radar, and fly-by-wire systems across these generations.
For warbird enthusiasts, nothing compares to seeing the best designs America has to offer from each generation of fighters. That is unless they are paired with the aircraft they went up against in the not-so-friendly skies.
That’s what you will find at the North American Aerospace Museum (NAAM), formerly known as the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, in McMinnville, Oregon.
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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.
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