Air Museum Network – Connecting You with Aviation History
HOUSTON, TX — A bright yellow biplane buzzing alongside a hangar at Ellington Airport carried Houston’s mayor to a memorable photo op arrival as officials unveiled plans for a new Lone Star Flight Museum. The $35-million museum will turn Ellington,
Hixson, TN — The Hixson Museum of Flight is considering moving to the Cleveland Regional Jetport. The aircraft display and aviation history museum has outgrown its space at the Dallas Bay Skypark in Hixson. Andreas Montgomery of the museum made
Mount Pleasant , TX — The Mid-America Flight Museum based at the Mount Pleasant Regional Airport in Mount Pleasant, Texas is getting a permanent headquarters and home. Owner and operator Scott Glover said Friday morning he received approval for his building
Dover, DE — The Air Mobility Command Museum is now the only place in the United States where one can see a complete set of every significant Lockheed airlifter built since World War II. That can be said since Tuesday
Los Angeles, CA — Two years after it paraded through the streets of Los Angeles following a cross-country ferry flight from Florida, the space shuttle Endeavour was loaded with a Spacehab logistics module Thursday ahead of the orbiter’s planned transition
A museum is asking people to share family photographs and memories of US airmen and women stationed in Britain during WWII. The Imperial War Museum in Duxford, Cambridgeshire has set up a website (www.americanairmuseum.com) about in a bid to create
A brand new exhibition entitled ‘Pilots of the Caribbean: Volunteers of African Heritage in the Royal Air Force’ is due to open at the Royal Air Force Museum Cosford next Month (6 October 2014). The exhibition opening will coincide with
Seattle, WA — The first Boeing 747 was never an airliner. For over 25 years it was used by Boeing for flight tests until the plane was retired and grounded in the 1990s, then moved to The Museum of Flight
Dhaka, Bangladesh — The Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) Museum has been inaugurated on Sunday at the western side of Tejgaon runway adjacent to Agargaon in the capital. Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Muhammad Enamul Bari opened the museum as
Warren, OH — After years of hard work, the Ernie Hall Aviation Museum in Warren is finally open. Museum Director Bill Griffin said the project on North River Road was started in March and he is happy to finally have
Bremerton, WA — A group started a Change.org petition drive to save the aircraft carrier USS Ranger and then worked to get the retired aircraft carrier named as a Washington state and national historic site. The efforts came despite the
Queensland, Australia — The Qantas Founders Museum at Longreach in western has acquired an historic aircraft in the Philippines and plans to ship it home for display. The museum says it has purchased a ‘Super Constellation’, which dates back to the
Belleville, MI — The Yankee Air Museum will be soaring shortly into welcoming skies and a bright future, complete with an inspiring and appropriate new name. Either that, or the new name will be a sniveling kowtow to the gods
Paramount Pictures didn’t know what they were giving up 40 years ago when they donated the 135-inch studio model of the U.S.S. Enterprise—the fictional, 23rd century starship at the center of the groundbreaking science fiction series Star Trek—to the Smithsonian.
Hebei Province, China — A Hebei farmer in his sixties who’s been collecting aviation-related items and occupying an area of over 6,000 square meters for 30 years became a big shot in his local village when he decided to use