Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Hangars, aircraft, a control tower, film, photographs, oral histories, and training equipment preserve the field where Black military aviators and support crews challenged exclusion.
Artwork inspired by Roger Brown
The Tuskegee Airmen story includes mechanics, instructors, nurses, parachute riggers, administrators, and the women who kept the program working—not only combat pilots. Training excellence existed inside a segregated system designed to doubt it.
Start with the park film, then compare Hangar 1’s training environment with Hangar 2’s wartime consequences. Groups of ten or more should reserve, and the historic field is separate from Tuskegee University.
- Hangar 1
- Training site interpreted onsite
- Link Trainer
- Instrument flight practiced safely
- support-personnel stories
- Aviation required a whole workforce
Quick guide
- Best first move
- Hangar 1: Hangars, aircraft, a control tower, film, photographs, oral histories, and training equipment preserve the field where Black military aviators and support crews challenged exclusion.
- Most revealing detail
- Link Trainer gives the clearest route into moton field makes training and segregation visible together.
Quick guide
- Start with
- Hangar 1 — Hangars, aircraft, a control tower, film, photographs, oral histories, and training equipment preserve the field where Black military aviators and support crews challenged exclusion.
- Look closely at
- Link Trainer — The Tuskegee Airmen story includes mechanics, instructors, nurses, parachute riggers, administrators, and the women who kept the program working—not only combat pilots.
- Connect the story
- support-personnel stories — Start with the park film, then compare Hangar 1’s training environment with Hangar 2’s wartime consequences.
- Plan around
- Allow 1½–2½ hours; plan around support-personnel stories and current access conditions.
Good to know
Use Moton Field’s own address; it is not on the Tuskegee Institute campus. The two national historic sites interpret connected stories but require separate arrivals.
Notice these
- Hangar 1
- Link Trainer
- support-personnel stories