Hill Aerospace Museum

Hill Air Force Base carries the name of a man killed by a checklist that didn't yet exist. In 1935, Major Ployer Hill was testing Boeing's new four-engine bomber when it climbed, stalled, and crashed — the crew had left the control locks engaged. The disaster gave aviation the preflight checklist and gave the base its name when it opened as Hill Field in 1940. This museum on the base's northwest corner keeps that heritage: some eighty aircraft, from a B-17 to an SR-71 to the lone F-117 stealth fighter, and the Utah Aviation Hall of Fame.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hill Aerospace Museum — 4.6 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Ogden Union Station — 4.8 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 9.2 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Lagoon Amusement Park — 14 mi
  A beloved family amusement park operating since 1886

More markers nearby

• First Post Office in Roy — 1.5 mi
• Clinton — 2.2 mi
• The Kington Fort – Morrisite War Site — 2.8 mi
• Christopher "Kit" Carson — 3.2 mi