Pioneer Air Museum

Pioneer Air Museum in Pioneer Park, Fairbanks, preserves aviation history tied to Alaska’s interior and arctic regions. Housed in the Gold Dome, a 12,000-square-foot building erected in 1967 for the Alaska 67 Centennial Exposition, it grew from the Interior and Arctic Alaska Aeronautical Foundation, organized in 1977 and formally registered in 1982. Although the foundation gained use of the Gold Dome in 1984, the building’s condition delayed opening until 1992. The museum opened after the wreckage of Ben Eielson’s Hamilton H-45 was recovered from the Soviet Union for display, and its collection also includes a Curtiss-Wright flight trainer. In 2024, it announced plans to merge with the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum.

Fairbanks, Alaska · United States