RANTOUL, IL — Community Foundation of East Central Illinois has awarded a $2,550 grant to Chanute Air Museum to develop educational programs utilizing flight simulation. The grant has allowed the museum to purchase a computer, monitor, flight control yoke
P-51D Set as Gate Guardian for MAPS Museum
North Canton, OH — The P-51 fighter plane “Jean Ann II” glided to a landing near MAPS Air Museum at Akron Canton Airport about a week ago. The plane’s power was a crane that hoisted the restored plane from
Area 51 to be Revealed in Lectures at Seattle Museum of Flight
SEATTLE, WA –The realities of the Area 51 secret Air Force flight facility at Groom Lake, Nev. will be discussed during a day of lectures and book signings at the Museum on April 26. Presenters include Area 51 authors Peter Merlin and
Air Zoo to restore historic WWII fighter plane after 68 years at Lake Michigan bottom
KALAMAZOO, MI – The restoration of a General Motors/Eastern Aircraft Division FM-2 “Wildcat” fighter that sat upside down on the bottom of Lake Michigan for 68 years has officially begun at the Air Zoo. “Our restoration team was champing
The 2014 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums hosted by NASM is underway
Arlington, VA — The 2014 Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums in underway this weekend in Arlington Virginia. The conference is hosted by the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. The conference provides venue for air and space museums
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Smithsonian to renovate iconic Air and Space Museum with $30 million from Boeing
WASHINGTON D.C. — The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) announced plans Thursday to renovate its iconic “Milestones of Flight” exhibit for the first time since opening its doors in 1976. The renovation will be funded with a donation of
RAF Museum to open First World in the Air permanent exhibition in December 2014
One of the most significant new museum exhibitions marking the Centenary of the First World War, the RAF Museum’s The First World War in the Air, came closer to fruition today. A confirmed grant of £898,558 from the Heritage
Tulsa Air and Space Museum opens Discovery Center
TULSA, OK — The Tulsa Air and Space Museum & Planetarium has opened the Discovery Center with an MD-80 aircraft donated by American Airlines. Monday’s opening ends a three-year-long project that turned the aircraft into a multi-purpose facility that
Warbird nesting at Nut Tree Airport in preparation for future air museum
Vacaville, CA — A gigantic iron bird the color of gunmetal is causing quite the squawk at the Nut Tree Airport in Vacaville and folks behind the Jimmy Doolittle Center, for one, are enthused. More than likely because they’ve
Collector hopes air museum plan will take off
Dipton, County Durham, England – A museum dedicated to aviation memorabilia spanning both world wars is to be opened in the North-East. Rare items, including uniforms, flying helmets with goggles, flags and models are to be displayed publicly in
Yankee Air Museum to make 2nd world record attempt with 1 month left to Save Bomber Plant
YPSILANTI TOWNSHIP, MI — With just over a month left in the Save the Bomber Plant campaign, the Yankee Air Museum announced Friday that they only have $1.5 million left to reach the $8 million fundraising goal. The deadline
Air cadets help out at de Havilland museum
Air cadets have joined forces with volunteers at de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre museum in London Colney. The 2203 (Hatfield and de Havilland) Squadron ATC has a number of its teenage members on the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme
Amelia Earhart featured in International Women’s Air and Space Museum program for Women’s History Month
CLEVELAND, OH – The International Women’s Air and Space Museum at Burke Lakefront Airport will celebrate Women’s History Month with a March 21 presentation about famed aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Historian Betty Darst will tell the story of Earhart,
Kermit Week’s “Fantasy of Flight” closing its doors to the public
POLK CITY — The Polk County aviation attraction whose iconic DC-3 aircraft has been a landmark for Interstate 4 motorists since 1998 — particularly when it was displayed nose-down as if it had crash-landed — will close to the pubic