At Freeman Municipal Airport in Seymour, Indiana, the museum preserves the history of Freeman Army Airfield, especially its unusual postwar role testing captured German and Japanese aircraft for intelligence and training after World War Two. Some aircraft were destroyed or scrapped, and when the program ended in December 1946, remains were buried on site. Searches for those buried aircraft began in the early 1990s and helped inspire the museum’s founding in 1996. Its collections grew through recovered artifacts, expanded buildings, and exhibits on aviation and wartime service, while later improvements, a Tuskegee Airmen memorial plaza, and ongoing digs kept Freeman Field’s legacy alive.