The Hiller Aviation Museum is an aircraft history museum located at the San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, California. The museum was founded by Stanley Hiller in June 1998. and is endowed by members of the Hiller family, owners of the Hiller Aircraft Corporation. It specializes in Northern California aircraft history and helicopter history. The museum is also an affiliate within the Smithsonian Affiliations program.Permanent exhibitsThis museum has more than 50 aerospace vehicles along with companion descriptive displays concerning the history of flight. Some of the exhibits include: The Hiller XH-44 (replica), first coaxial helicopter to fly in the US The Hiller Flying Platform, an experimental aircraft from 1955 to give a single passenger low-altitude flight The front 45 feet of a Boeing 747Fairchild 24, the "Honeymoon Plane" once owned by James RicklefsStearman-Hammond Y-1, a mid-1930s trainer also used as a remotely piloted aircraft The Rutan Defiant, Burt Rutan's personal homebuilt airplane. A Grumman Albatross HU-16RD that flew around the world. The NASA AD-1 oblique wing research aircraft.
"The Hiller Aviation Museum, a Smithsonian Affiliate museum, was opened to the public in 1998 by helicopter designer and inventor Stanley Hiller Jr. and features more than 50 aircraft from more than a century of aviation history. The museum is visited by over 120,000 people each year, including over 10,000 children from regional K-12 schools. Since opening, the museum has served over 2 million visitors. The Hiller Aviation Museum is a 501c3 nonprofit organization."
