Established | 2021 |
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Location | Caddo Mills, Texas |
Coordinates | 33°02′17″N 96°14′24″W / 33.038°N 96.240°W |
Type | Aviation museum |
Founder | Lt. Col. Harold F. "Red" Smith |
Website |
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The Aviation Unmanned Vehicle Museum is an aviation museum located at the Caddo Mills Municipal Airport in Caddo Mills, Texas focused on the history of unmanned aerial vehicles.
A few years after retiring from the United States Air Force, Lt. Col. Harold F. "Red" Smith began a drone manufacturing business. Over the years, he gathered a collection of various drones in a 22,500 sq ft (2,090 m2) building at the Caddo Mills Municipal Airport. [1] By 2014, he began raising funds to establish a museum. [2] However, Smith was killed in a car accident in 2017. His family continued the project and the museum opened to the public on 16 May 2021. [1] [3]