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Charlotte Douglas International Airport is one of a small number of major "hub" airports in the world that has an aviation museum located on the field. The [[Carolinas Aviation Museum]], established in 1992, has a collection of over 50 aircraft, including a [[Douglas DC-3|DC-3]] that is painted in [[Piedmont Airlines]] livery. The museum also has an aviation library with over 9,000 volumes and a very extensive photography collection. Rare aircraft in the collection include one of only two surviving Douglas D-558 Skystreak aircraft and the second (and oldest surviving) U.S.-built Harrier, which was used as the flight-test aircraft and accumulated over 5,000 flight-test hours. In January 2011, the museum acquired [[N106US]], the US Airways Airbus A320 ditched by captain [[Chesley Sullenberger]] as [[US Airways Flight 1549]] in the Hudson River on January 15, 2009. This aircraft, which was delivered on June 10, 2011, is about 35 years younger than any other commercial airliner on display in a museum.

 

 

==Airlines and destinations==