On May 24, Councilmember Agran enthusiastically helped the Great Park Board approve the Marine Corps Aviation Museum back to Orange County at the Cultural Terrace in the Great Park (approved 4-1). Brigadier General (retired) Michael J. Aguilar, President of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum and their development team shared an impressive presentation. 

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum is a United States Marine Corps aviation museum founded in 1989 at El Toro and is currently located at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, San Diego County. The museum contains priceless aviation collections and exhibits that display the history and legacy of the U.S. Marines.  

The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum experience promises to be multi-generational. It will honor the history of the Marine Corps and educate youth in fields of STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Additionally, the museum will host community spaces, large projections, archival research, art galleries, and more.

Councilmember Agran endorsed the museum’s proposal, saying:

“Any museum of this kind is an enterprise about lessons we’ve learned from the past, lessons that are relevant to the present and of course lessons that bear upon the future. What makes me so enthusiastic is that it is a kind of  ‘welcoming home’ - we want to remember our military history, such a central part of Orange County.” - Larry Agran

Learn more about the Flying Leathernecks Historical Foundation.