Located in the historic Chief Master at Arms House in DeLand, Florida, the DeLand Naval Air Station Museum was dedicated in 1995 and focuses on the history of the DeLand Naval Air Station and United States Navy history. Exhibits include an F-14 Tomcat, a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber, a Korean War MASH helicopter, a 1954 U.S. Army jeep, military artifacts, vintage photographs, memorabilia.
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“It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?””
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)
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—Orville Wright (1871–1948)
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—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
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—Max Ernst (1891–1976)