Founded to provide capital support for hill aerospace museum in roy, utah. This support provides for the museum's facility improvement, museum expansion, and projects for which air force funding is not available. Additionally our goal is to educate, excite and lead students and visitors into the world of flight and the ever-expanding knowledge of space.

The aerospace heritage foundation of utah purchased 6 new personal computer systems to be used in the lt. Gen. Marc c. Reynolds aerospace center for education simulator room. These systems included state-of-the-art personal computers, flight training software, yokes, and foot pedals providing an up-to-date flight simulator experience for young education center students. The foundation's plane talk lecture series continued throughout the first six months of 2017. Sixteen speakers spoke on various subjects relating to the u. S. Military, aviation, hill air force base and stem education. Foundation executive director, robb alexander, museum director, aaron clark, and museum curator, justin hall visited the leonardo museum on at the invitation of leonardo staff on january 26, 2017. They toured the museum's "flight exhibit. " good interaction took place on their exhibit development process that will be valuable as the hill aerospace museum develops its new museum exhibit program. Foundation executive director, robb alexander, presented an ongoing funding request to the business, economic development and labor appropriations subcommittee of the utah state legislature at the utah state capitol in salt lake city on february 3, 2017. The utah state legislature approved an ongoing, unrestricted appropriation of 175,000 to the aerospace heritage foundation of utah for the hill aerospace museum during the 2017 utah legislative session. Four equal payments will be distributed quarterly to the foundation beginning july 1, 2017. Utah a 75,000 request for funding was submitted to the weber county ramp (recreation, arts, parks and museums) committee for support of the museum's new exhibit development program. Foundation director presented the museum's case to ms. Danette pulley, the ramp committee liaison with the hill aerospace museum. The ramp board approved a 50,000 grant for the museum's exhibit development program. The annual utah museum advocacy day was held at the state capitol in salt lake city on february 28, 2017. Foundation executive director, robb alexander, museum director, aaron clark, and members of the aerospace heritage foundation of utah board of directors were in attendance presenting the story of the hill aerospace museum. More than forty museums from throughout the state of utah were in attendance. Two new smart boards (24,000 value) were donated to the lt. General marc c. Reynolds aerospace center for education by the state of utah's utah stem action center. A training session took place for the museum/foundation staff to become familiar with the technology and operating system of the boards. The aerospace heritage foundation of utah provided 2 laptop computers to be used with the new smart boards. The aerospace heritage foundation of utah participated in the 2017 love utah give utah campaign. The community foundation of utah sponsors this state-wide philanthropic day of giving. The goal of the day is to s to harness utah's entrepreneurial spirit in service to the common good through smart philanthropy. On-line contributions are made through the razoo web site and directed to the individual nonprofit by the individual donor. Close to 500 was gifted to the aerospace heritage foundation of utah for the hill aerospace museum. The aerospace heritage foundation of utah sponsored the annual easter egg hunt at the hill aerospace museum on april 8, 2017. More than 2,500 anxious and excited children hunted for 10,000 plus filled plastic eggs and other treats and prizes. Numerous community organizations supported the event by donating cash, prizes and candy. They included hershey's, larry h. Miller chrysler jeep dodge ram of riverdale, walgreen's, walmart, costco, mcdonald's and more. The annual nasa space grant consortium was held at weber state university in ogden, utah, on may 9, 2016. Students from utah state university, weber state university, university of utah and brigham young university presented papers relating