Air Museum Network – Connecting You with Aviation History
Kraków, Poland — The Caudron-Renault CR.714 Cyclone, which was used by Poles in the defense of France, is the only fully intact example of its kind is now on display at the Polish Aviation Museum. Owing to technical faults, the
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — The Quonset Air Museum is grounded — maybe for good. The state-owned airport hangar at Quonset Point, which houses the museum and almost two dozen vintage military aircraft, sustained a partial roof collapse in March from
Pensacola, FL — Since 1987, the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation has hosted its Naval Aviation Symposium each May in Pensacola. The Symposium series average nearly 3,000 guests annually, including active and retired flag and general officers and executives from the
An immaculately restored Spitfire Mk. I which is being sold for up to £2.5million later this summer is being unveiled today at the Imperial War Museum in Duxford. The unique piece of Second World War British history, which helped to
Rantoul IL — One of the last signs that Rantoul at one time held an Air Force base will vanish at the end of this year. Chanute Air Museum, which has operated in the community since the spring of 1994
Winnipeg, Manitoba, CA — Find out what it’s like to fight forest fires with the Canadian-made Bombardier 415 at the Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada’s new exhibit Ready for Action! Visitors to the new exhibit can hear pilots tells
Minot, N.D. — Six months ago an F-106 Delta Dart arrived on two trucks at the Dakota Territory Air Museum in Minot from Arizona. Volunteers at the air museum spent the winter months reassembling and painting the more than 70-foot
YPSILANTI, MI — The Yankee Air Museum will be buffing aircraft aluminum exteriors this Saturday, April 18th to prepare for some platinum anniversaries, and invites the public to join. Saturday is the Willow Run Airport museum’s 20th annual Bomber Buffing when volunteers help
Hindersonville North Carolina — After 20 months of diligent work, 84-year-old Donald “Rube” Waddell brought his three-quarters scaled model of Wilbur and Orville Wright’s Flyer to the Western North Carolina Air Museum this past weekend. The original flyer made its
Dover, DE — Thousands and thousands of motorists take Del. 1 every day, and many of them pass by a point just south of the Dover Air Force Base near the exit to Del. 9. On one side is a man-made
Longreach, Queensland, AU — Progress on Stage 3 of the Qantas Founders Museum’s Super Constellation Project in Manila, Philippines continues apace with the disassembly of the aircraft completed and preparations for storage and shipment now well advanced. In Stage 1
Seattle WA — Construction begins today on The Museum of Flight’s Aviation Pavilion – a structure that will cover more than 20 commercial and military airplanes once completed. Aircraft that will be moved to the Aviation Pavilion upon its completion
Oak Harbor, Bud Zylstra can still remember the roar of the PBY engines over Oak Harbor. He shared some of those memories during the opening of the PBY-Naval Air Museum’s new aircraft display exhibit Wednesday. “When we were sitting in
Camarillo, CA – The Commemorative Air Force’s SoCal Wing has begun the initial phase for expansion of its historic WWII Aviation Museum, hangars and buildings complex at Camarillo Airport. “We have run out of museum display space, artifacts storage, maintenance/restoration
Bloomington, IL — The Prairie Aviation Museum embraces all forms of aviation — from military to outer space and everything in between — in its recently refurbished space on Illinois 9 near the old airport. “We didn’t want to be all