Legacy Flight Museum

Yellow plane taking off with propeller spinning

The Legacy Flight Museum is the brain child of John Bagley of Rexburg, Idaho, who founded the museum in 2006. His goal and the goal of the museum’s volunteers is to give guests the opportunity to see up close and personal some of the aircraft that United States Military Veterans flew as they served our country and provided us with the freedoms that we enjoy today.

Operating Hours

Labor Day to Memorial Day 

  • Open Saturday
  • 10:00 am to 4:00 pm

Memorial Day to Labor Day

  • Open 6 days a week - Monday through Saturday
  •  9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Location: 400 Airport Rd, Rexburg, ID 83440

Museum Phone Number: (208) 359-5905


Pricing

Adults  $8.00
Seniors $6.00
College Students $6.00
Military & Veterans $6.00
Children 8-17 $3.00
Children Under 8 Free
Single Family Pass (Immediate Family) $20.00
Large Groups $3.00 / Person
Youth Groups & Leaders (i.e. Boy Scouts) $3.00 / Person

Featured Aircraft

Mormon Mustang plane in hanger with American flag in the background

Mormon Mustang

In December of 2006, the Mormon Mustang experienced a forced landing on the highway median in Rexburg following an engine failure. John Bagley walked away with minor injuries from a very damaged P-51 Mustang. We are very thankful that John walked away from this one. The Mormon Mustang has been rebuilt and is again airworthy.

SNB Beech on runway preparing for takeoff

SNB-5 Beechcraft 

This SNB-5 served in the U.S. Navy from 1944 until 1968.  During WWII and the Vietnam War, the Air Force and Navy used similar Beechcraft 18s for light cargo and passenger transports, air ambulances, aerial photography and instrument, gunnery, and bombing trainers.

A Skyraider aircraft with a Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engine in a hanger.

Duplex-Cyclone Engine

We have a floor display of the powerful Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone engine that powers the Skyraider aircraft. This turbo-compound engine also powered the B-29 Superfortress of WW-II fame. 

Bob Hoover's Famous "Ole Yeller" P-51D Mustang Flying in the air

Ole Yeller

Bob Hoover's Famous "Ole Yeller" P-51D Mustang. Now owned and flown by John Bagley at the Legacy Flight Museum. Has made over 1,000 Air Show performances in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Still holds the prop plane Speed Record from Los Angeles, California to Daytona Beach, Florida - 5 hours 20 minutes - established on March 29, 1985. The aircraft is powered by a Rolls Royce Merlin 12-cylinder engine, one of the most powerful inline engines ever produced.

Plane taking off runway

North American T-6 Texan

First flew in 1938. Known as “The Pilot Maker” because of its important role in preparing pilots for combat in WWII. The same plane served the Army Air Forces as the T-6 and the Navy as the SNJ. Has a 600 H.P. Pratt & Whitney radial engine. Over 17,000 were built and over 350 are still airworthy.
 

Boeing Model 75 plane taking off the runway

Boeing Stearman

Army Air Corps biplane trainer developed by the Stearman Aircraft Company which was bought by Boeing in 1934. Officially named the Boeing Model 75, but still known as the “Stearman” by those who flew her. Over 10,000 were built by the end of 1945 and about 1000 are still airworthy.

Grumman S-2 Tracker with wings folded up on runway

Grumman S-2 Tracker

U.S. Navy S-2 Tracker was designed to be a carrier based "sub chaser" during the Cold War. It served from 1954-1976 and carried all of the electronic surveillance equipment and weapons needed to seek out and destroy enemy submarines.

O-1 Bird Dog on runway parked

O-1 Bird Dog                                   

An aerial observation plane used extensively by the Army in Korea and Vietnam for observation and to direct artillery fire. The civilian version was the Cessna 170. When first bought by the Army it was designated the L-19 (for Liaison) in Korea. In 1962 it was redesignated the O-1 Bird Dog and entered its second war in Vietnam. This aircraft was also the first aircraft ordered by the U.S. Air Force after it became its own branch of the service in 1947.

P 63 King Cobra flying above the mountains

P-63 King Cobra

An American fighter developed in WWII but never accepted for combat by the Army Air Forces. Most were sent to Russia under the Lend-Lease program where the Russians very successfully used them in combat, both against the Luftwaffe and against German tanks with the 37mm cannon in the nose. It has an Allison 1800 H.P. V-12 engine. This is a magnificently restored fully airworthy aircraft; one of only three (3) P-63s in the world today that are still airworthy.