The former Carolinas Aviation Museum has been renamed the Sullenberger Aviation Museum, honoring Captain C.B. "Sully" Sullenberger for safely landing US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River.
The museum features the actual Airbus 320 aircraft from the "Miracle on the Hudson" incident in 2009, which Sullenberger successfully landed with no loss of life.
A new 105,000-square-foot facility is under construction, with a groundbreaking slated for September 2023, aiming to establish the museum as the premier aviation museum of the Southeast and a vital STEM education resource.
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.
