The Carolinas Aviation Museum has been renamed the Sullenberger Aviation Museum in honor of Capt. C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger.
The museum recognizes Sullenberger's heroic ditching of US Airways Flight 1549, the "Miracle on the Hudson," and houses the actual Airbus 320 aircraft from the event.
A new 105,000-square-foot facility is slated to break ground in September 2023 and open by the end of the year, aiming to be a premier aviation and STEM education center in the Southeast.
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.
