Tulsa, OK — Tulsa has a new educational community resource as the Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium launched the Discovery Center earlier this month. The Discovery Center, featuring an MD-80 aircraft donated to the museum by American
Asia’s largest aerospace museum opens in Jeju South Korea
Jeju South Korea — Jeju Aerospace Museum, Asia’s largest aerospace museum, opened Thursday in Seogwipo, Jejudo Island, said Jeju Free International Development Center in a press release. JDC has developed the theme-park type museum in cooperation with the Korean
Air museum receives $2,550 grant
RANTOUL, IL — Community Foundation of East Central Illinois has awarded a $2,550 grant to Chanute Air Museum to develop educational programs utilizing flight simulation. The grant has allowed the museum to purchase a computer, monitor, flight control yoke
P-51D Set as Gate Guardian for MAPS Museum
North Canton, OH — The P-51 fighter plane “Jean Ann II” glided to a landing near MAPS Air Museum at Akron Canton Airport about a week ago. The plane’s power was a crane that hoisted the restored plane from
Area 51 to be Revealed in Lectures at Seattle Museum of Flight
SEATTLE, WA –The realities of the Area 51 secret Air Force flight facility at Groom Lake, Nev. will be discussed during a day of lectures and book signings at the Museum on April 26. Presenters include Area 51 authors Peter Merlin and
Air Zoo to restore historic WWII fighter plane after 68 years at Lake Michigan bottom
KALAMAZOO, MI – The restoration of a General Motors/Eastern Aircraft Division FM-2 “Wildcat” fighter that sat upside down on the bottom of Lake Michigan for 68 years has officially begun at the Air Zoo. “Our restoration team was champing
The 2014 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums hosted by NASM is underway
Arlington, VA — The 2014 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums in underway this weekend in Arlington Virginia. The conference is hosted by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The conference provides venue for air and space museums
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Smithsonian to renovate iconic Air and Space Museum with $30 million from Boeing
WASHINGTON D.C. — The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) announced plans Thursday to renovate its iconic “Milestones of Flight” exhibit for the first time since opening its doors in 1976. The renovation will be funded with a donation of
RAF Museum to open First World in the Air permanent exhibition in December 2014
One of the most significant new museum exhibitions marking the Centenary of the First World War, the RAF Museum’s The First World War in the Air, came closer to fruition today. A confirmed grant of £898,558 from the Heritage
Tulsa Air and Space Museum opens Discovery Center
TULSA, OK — The Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium has opened the Discovery Center with an MD-80 aircraft donated by American Airlines. Monday’s opening ends a three-year-long project that turned the aircraft into a multi-purpose facility that
Warbird nesting at Nut Tree Airport in preparation for future air museum
Vacaville, CA — A gigantic iron bird the color of gunmetal is causing quite the squawk at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville and folks behind the Jimmy Doolittle Center, for one, are enthused. More than likely because they’ve