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Tucson, AZ — Tucson’s Pima Air & Space Museum, an affiliate of the Titan II Missile Museum in Sahuarita, has a new addition to its airplane collection — a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner commercial jet. The donation from Boeing arrives today
Cornwall, UK — Newquay’s Classic Air Force museum has closed its doors for the last time, just months after directors promised they would keep it open. In a statement posted today on the trust’s Facebook page, directors said financial pressures
Riverside, CA — This C-53D “D Day Doll,” built in 1943 by Douglas, flew three combat air drops on June 6, 1944 with the 101st Airborne Parachute Division.The twin-engine aircraft, on each of three missions, carried 28 paratroopers, many of
Everett, WA — March 25 marks the 60th anniversary of the first flight of one of the Museum’s most historic military jets–the Chance Vought XF8U-1 Crusader. Seattle’s Museum of Flight will celebrate the date during an 11 a.m. ceremony with the aircraft at
Southampton, UK — Rare exhibits from Britain’s aeronautic heritage have been stolen during a raid on a Hampshire museum. Raiders broke into the Solent Sky Museum, Albert Road South, Southampton, before stealing a number of items, including a cigarette case
Wichita, KS — Lon Smith is leaving the Kansas Aviation Museum for a new position with Integrated Facilities Group. He has been executive director at the museum since 2009. “It has been an incredible honor to work with the board,
Paso Robles, CA — The second portion of a three phase major expansion for Estrella Warbirds Museum is currently taking advantage of the great spring weather. Steel columns and purlons began to be set in place the second week of
North Kingstown, RI — Firefighters responded to a report of a roof collapse at the Quonset Air Museum located at 488 Eccleston Avenue around 3pm Saturday. Qounset Air Museum Vice President John King confirmed that two workers went to check
Liberal, KS — The Mid-America Air Museum is home to more than 100 aircraft and other artifacts of aviation history. One of those pieces of history, an OV-10 “Bronco” aircraft, will soon be getting some much-needed repair work along with a
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM) has announced April 1-16, 2016 as the proposed dates for the next Mutual Concerns of Air and Space Museums Conference. Plans are for the meeting to be held in the New York City
Leonardtown, MD — The Commissioners of St. Mary’s County at their regularly scheduled March 10 public forum heard one person after another come to the microphone in support of the Patuxent River Naval Air Museum. Of the unusually large number
Bonne Terre, MO — The Bonne Terre Space Museum is slowly making progress on its annex in the Heritage Hall Building. Space Museum Owner Earl Mullins said when they started out, the annex space was in really rough shape. It
Atwater, CA — Castle Air Museum is expecting the arrival on March 18 of its newest aircraft, a Northrop-Grumman EA-6B Prowler. The electronic warfare jet is scheduled to be flown to the former Air Force base by a U.S. Marine
Concrete, WA — The North Cascades Vintage Aircraft Museum is working on their first ever newsletter! Help them out by signing up. Issue #001 comes out at the end of this month with new issues publishing once a quarter. Featured will be news about the
Qantas’ first Boeing 747-400 aircraft, which is celebrated for having flown the longest commercial flight in history from London to Sydney, has now made its shortest journey – from Sydney to Illawarra Regional Airport in New South Wales. The 15-minute