 Maloney had the foresight to recognize that today's scrap is tomorrow's history, and began collecting odd airframes for a future museum.His first item was reportedly the Ohka Kamikaze rocket in the current collection, acquired in 1946.Maloney opened his first aviation museum at Claremont, California on January 12, 1957, and then moved to LA/Ontario International Airport, Ontario, California in the 1960s.