Author: the Air Museum Network

RIO GRANDE, NJ USA — The state of New Jersey wants more people to know about the Aviation Museum in Rio Grande. The Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum has been awarded a travel and tourism grant for 2013.  The

Tulsa, OK USA — The Tulsa Air and Space Museum and Planetarium’s classes give elementary students a chance to exercise their engineering and science muscles after school. For the next eight weeks, students will be tinkering and building in the

LINCOLN, IL USA — After receiving word that the Heritage in Flight Museum at the Logan County Airport near Lincoln was in line for a $112,518 grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, museum Director Jack Burke made an

Warner Robins, GA USA — Once a month, teachers come to the Museum of Aviation for training aimed at inspiring student interest in science, technology, engineering and math. This month’s program, held Saturday, was also aimed at inspiring student interest

The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum has started the process of constructing temporary scaffolding and a protective cover over Space Shuttle Enterprise, as it works to reopen the Space Shuttle Pavilion for Spring 2013. The process is expected to

ASHLAND, OR USA — Its exact duty service is unclear, but the Douglas C-54 now ensconced in the Durham Restoration Gallery at the Strategic Air and Space Museum clearly has seen hazardous duty since retirement. The four-engine cargo plane is

One of Hughes most popular planes. This plane was frequently used to pick up one of his flings, Katherine Hepburn. No word yet as to if the aircraft will be displayed to the public at Kermit’s Fantasy of Flight. Watch

Lincolnshire, UK — Lincolnshire farmers Fred and Harold Panton why they wanted to restore a Lancaster bomber as a tribute to their brother Christopher, who along with 55,000 other aircrew of RAF Bomber Command lost his life during World War

British experts looking for a cache of World War II Spitfire planes believed to be buried in Burma say they have discovered a crate. The team has lowered a camera into the crate in the Kachin state capital Myitkyina, but

Ludington, Michigan USA — A Cessna landed inside Sandcastles Children’s Museum Saturday morning, flown in by pieces in the hands of the Mason County Pilots Association members and museum volunteers who carried, first the fuselage and then as the day

BEVERLY HILLS, CA USA — The 10th Annual “Living Legends of Aviation” Awards, presented by Bell Helicopter and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and hosted by John Travolta (pictured), will be held Jan. 18, at the Beverly Hilton. The program starts with

Windsor Locks, CT USA — What better way to spend a day than playing pilot at the Museum!  Open Cockpit Sundays are by far our most popular events when visitors are permitted to climb into the cockpits of up to

The only flying De Havilland Mosquito will have a busy schedule in North America this summer, according to its owner Jerry Yagen of the Fighter Factory. As we reported earlier, the reconstructed Mosquito, which flew for the first time in