While the Membership Department remains in Huntington Beach, the headquarters office moved to the historic Flabob Airport in Riverside, California.
[11] Additionally, there are chapters ("wings") in other parts of the United States, including Phoenix, Arizona[12] and Northern Virginia,[13] which conduct meetings and activities of their own.
In Northern California, the San Francisco-area chapter (formed in 1985) separated in 2006 to become the Society for Aviation History,[16][17] citing objections to the national organization's insurance requirements.
[19] AAHS has its own website (aahs-online.org), but also hosts the restored site of the U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission—a large online encyclopedia of U.S. aviation history.
[27][28] The organization's advisory board has included aviation historians Gerald Balzer, Richard P. Hallion, Robert L. Lawson, and (until 2019) Walter J. Boyne, founding curator and later director of the National Air and Space Museum.