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Madras, OR — The Airshow of the Cascades begins on Friday, and with it, the air museum in development at the Madras Airport for more than a year will open its doors to the public for the first time. Based

The National Aviation Day (August 19) is a United States national observation that celebrates the development of aviation.   The holiday was established in 1939 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who issued a presidential proclamation which designated the anniversary of Orville

SAN DIEGO, CA – The San Diego Air & Space Museum Tuesday named eight new members of the International Air & Space Hall of Fame. Joe Engle, Fitz Fulton, Bill Boeing Jr., John (Jack) Dailey, Roger Schaufele, Bessie Coleman, the

KASAMA, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan–Rare body parts of an early model Zero Fighter that was shot down in the Solomon Islands during World War II went on display at the Tsukuba naval air corps memorial museum here.   The tail of

Windsor Locks, CT — When Michael P. Speciale became executive director of the New England Air Museum 29 years ago, it was a one-hangar museum that was still recovering from the effects of a tornado in 1979, which decimated its

Everett, WA — John Sessions wants to elevate Paine Field’s reputation among historic aircraft aficionados to an even higher level. The Seattle attorney and developer introduced a plan last year to build a specialized campus at the Snohomish County Airport

Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, a navigator who on Aug. 6, 1945, guided the Enola Gay over Hiroshima to drop the first nuclear bomb in the history of warfare, died Monday at an assisted living facility in Stone Mountain, Ga. He

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CAPE MAY, NJ – Naval Air Station Wildwood (NASW) Aviation Museum will hold a Coast Guard Celebration event Aug. 2. The event will celebrate the U.S. Coast Guard’s 224th birthday and also recognize Cape May County’s recent designation as an

New York, NY — This fall, the New York City home of NASA’s space shuttle Enterprise will focus its attention on another big piece of space history: the Hubble Space Telescope.   The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has

Seattle, WA — Restoration and painting of the exterior of the Boeing 747 prototype at The Museum of Flight is under way. Technicians arrived this month to begin returning the jumbo jet to the gleaming livery worn on its maiden

DAYTON, Ohio (AFNS) — The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force honored the first aviation mechanic, Charles E. Taylor, by unveiling a bronze bust of his likeness for permanent display during a ceremony in the museum’s Early Years Gallery

HELENA, MT — The four-engine Lockheed EC-121 “Warning Star” that sits on the north end of the Helena Regional Airport has caught the attention of a California air museum.   Jeff Wadekamper, director of the Helena Regional Airport, said, “In

Lexington Park, MD — It’s been a long haul for its supporters, but visible signs of the new Patuxent River Naval Air Museum are now showing up just outside the base’s Gate 1. And in a significant milestone, a “Topping