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SEATTLE, WA (press release) –The Smithsonian Institution announced at a ceremony today that the Apollo 11 command module Columbia–the only portion of the historic spacecraft to complete the first mission to land a man on the moon and safely return
Reading, PA — The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum is pleased to announce that the GEICO Skytypers Airshow Team — a six-ship aerobatic team flying the North American SNJ-2 — will perform at the Museums 27th Annual World War II Weekend set
Lincolnshire, UK — American aviation advisers to a new Second World War blockbuster series by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks are visiting Lincolnshire to get a flavor of our historic USAAF connections. Masters of the Air is a ten-episode mini-series
Colorado Springs, CO — City for Champions is a menu of projects backed by tourism dollars funded by tax-increment financing. Projects including a sports medicine center for the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, an Olympic Museum and an Air
Doncaster UK — The iconic Cold War aircraft based at Doncaster Sheffield Airport has recently been put into storage and closed to the public, while two thirds of staff from the Vulcan to the Sky Trust which maintains it are
Chico, CA — For Lee Koenig, Saturday was an “amazing” day. For the 30 or so gathered in his honor, it was equally amazing, but in a far different way. In Koenig’s view as he sat at the Chico Air
Fort Rucker, AL — An aircraft that never quite made it into the Army’s operational inventory and looks like something out of a science-fiction movie is now on display at the U.S. Army Aviation Museum. The Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche –
Paris, France — France honoured the A380 superjumbo with a place in its national aerospace museum on Tuesday, granting it equal status with the Boeing 747 even as questions pile up over the future of the industry’s biggest jets. The
Houston, TX — – From the air, the Lone Star Flight Museum looked like Galveston after Hurricane Ike blew ashore in September of 2008. Archives photos taken inside the facility showed the flooded museum with damaged aircraft and priceless artifacts destroyed.
Bristol, UK — The last Concorde made its final journey to a new home on Tuesday, just a quarter of a mile and at a walking pace. After 13 years languishing at the side of an airfield in Bristol, the