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Dhaka, Bangladesh — The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Museum has been inaugurated on Sunday at the western side of Tejgaon runway adjacent to Agargaon in the capital. Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari opened the museum as
Warren, OH — After years of hard work, the Ernie Hall Aviation Museum in Warren is finally open. Museum Director Bill Griffin said the project on North River Road was started in March and he is happy to finally have
Bremerton, WA — A group started a Change.org petition drive to save the aircraft carrier USS Ranger and then worked to get the retired aircraft carrier named as a Washington state and national historic site. The efforts came despite the
Queensland, Australia — The Qantas Founders Museum at Longreach in western has acquired an historic aircraft in the Philippines and plans to ship it home for display. The museum says it has purchased a ‘Super Constellation’, which dates back to the
Belleville, MI — The Yankee Air Museum will be soaring shortly into welcoming skies and a bright future, complete with an inspiring and appropriate new name. Either that, or the new name will be a sniveling kowtow to the gods
Paramount Pictures didn’t know what they were giving up 40 years ago when they donated the 135-inch studio model of the U.S.S. Enterprise—the fictional, 23rd century starship at the center of the groundbreaking science fiction series Star Trek—to the Smithsonian.
Wichita, KS — The B-29 Superfortess called “Doc,” which is being restored inside a Boeing Wichita hangar, is getting closer to getting back in the air, volunteers say. Work on the flaps – the last major structural piece to be
Hebei Province, China — A Hebei farmer in his sixties who’s been collecting aviation-related items and occupying an area of over 6,000 square meters for 30 years became a big shot in his local village when he decided to use
Trenton, ON — The Royal Canadian Air Force has quietly turned to an unusual source for spare parts to keep its venerable search-and-rescue airplanes flying: a museum. The Citizen has learned that, in July 2012, air force technicians raided an
Horsham, PA — Local aviation enthusiasts are setting their sights high with a proposed renovation of the Wings of Freedom museum in Horsham, PA, hoping that it could someday rival the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. The designs, unveiled Friday
Wonder what the staff do at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum? Curious about our collections? On September 17th, we’ll join museums and other cultural institutions around the world on Twitter for Ask A Curator Day. Tweet us your
Seattle, WA — Boeing is loaning its third 787 Dreamliner to the Museum of Flight in Seattle, a big win for the museum. The aircraft, painted in Boeing colors, is expected to arrive Nov. 8, said Museum of Flight spokesman
Atwater, CA — For nearly 20 years, acquiring an EC-121 airplane has been on the top of the wish list for the Castle Air Museum. If about $200,000 can be raised, that rare military aircraft now languishing in Montana might
The late William Reals, a Wichita pathologist and a leading authority on human factors that contribute to aircraft crashes, has been selected for the 2014 Governor’s Aviation award. Reals was involved in the investigations of two well-known accidents: the 1965
Karachi, Pakistan — Aviation Paintings and Aircraft Models Exhibition is continuing at Pakistan Air Force Museum Faisal. A large number of aviation enthusiasts, Arts schools and colleges students and people from all walks of life visited the exhibition and due