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Dover, DE — The Air Mobility Command Museum is now the only place in the United States where one can see a complete set of every significant Lockheed airlifter built since World War II. That can be said since Tuesday
Los Angeles, CA — Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module Thursday ahead of the orbiter’s planned transition
Excerpt from AOPA Pilot Magazine Story by Dave Hirshman dave.hirschman@aopa.org Hang around aircraft restorers and you’ll inevitably hear tales of priceless historical relics hidden in barns, buried in shrink wrap, or otherwise stuck in time awaiting discovery. These stories are almost
A museum is asking people to share family photographs and memories of US airmen and women stationed in Britain during WWII. The Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire has set up a website (www.americanairmuseum.com) about in a bid to create
A brand new exhibition entitled ‘Pilots of the Caribbean: Volunteers of African Heritage in the Royal Air Force’ is due to open at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford next Month (6 October 2014). The exhibition opening will coincide with
Seattle, WA — The first Boeing 747 was never an airliner. For over 25 years it was used by Boeing for flight tests until the plane was retired and grounded in the 1990s, then moved to The Museum of Flight
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