Air museum gets ready to expand

COLUMBUS, IN — Groundbreaking ceremonies Saturday will usher the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum into a new era in promotion of the area’s military history and development of the museum as a tourist attraction.

 

The museum at Columbus Municipal Airport is in its 21st year of operation. Through that time it has highlighted the role Columbus played in military aviation during World War II and the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam.

 

Saturday’s 11 a.m. ceremony in front of the present museum site will be a prelude to the start of construction on an expansion that will add 3,700 square feet to the complex.