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Birkelse, Denmark — A 14-year-old Danish boy doing research for a history class found the wreckage of a German World War II plane with the remains of the pilot in the cockpit. Daniel Kristiansen and his father, Klaus, discovered what’s
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
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
Reading,PA — At the recently held Reading Air Fest in Reading, PA, Art Nalls and the Nalls Aviation crew were kind enough to let the Air Museum network tag along for a ride in the World’s only privately owned Harrier Jump
Wichita, KS — The Kansas Aviation Museum is set to take possession of a Beech 18, with plans to move the aircraft across Wichita next week. The museum said in latest email newsletter on Tuesday that the Beech 18 is currently
York, UK — The Allied Air Forces Memorial & Yorkshire Air Museum at Elvington near York, UK has been gifted a Dassault Mirage IVA nuclear bomber aircraft by France. The Dassault Mirage IVA weighs 31 tonnes and is set to become the
WEATHERFORD, OK — Another piece of NASA history will go on display in Weatherford. The Stafford Air and Space Museum acquired a simulator used for Space Shuttle missions. It should be ready for display at the beginning of next year. “It’s
Chino, CA — A decommissioned Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force F-5 jet fighter equipped with wingtip missile launchers went on display at the Yanks Air Museum in California Sunday, Taiwan’s “Air Force Day”. The AF fighter, serial number 5243, was given