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Chantilly, VA — With the U.S. Coast Guard celebrating its centennial of flight this year, it’s appropriate that the National Air and Space Museum welcomed its first Coast Guard aircraft to the collection today. The Sikorsky HH-52A Seaguard entered Coast
Everett, WA — The world’s oldest flyable Boeing airliner will make its last flight on April 26. The classic twin-engine Boeing 247D from the 1930s–one of a mere four remaining in the world, and the only one flyable–has been in
Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC, Canada — Patrick Campbell clearly remembers the day more than 75 years ago when he climbed into the open cockpit of a two-seater Curtiss-Reid Rambler and took off from Cartierville airport. “It was a tremendous thrill,” Campbell said,
Stratford, CT — United Aero Group has donated a Sikorsky S-76A helicopter to the Connecticut Air and Space Center, a restoration museum that currently occupies buildings 6 and 53 at the former Stratford Army Engine Plant complex. The company acquired the
The Department of National Defence has donated the last CC-130 Hercules E aircraft still in service to the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. The aircraft made its last flight this morning, flying from 424 Transport and Rescue Squadron, Trenton Ontario
Brodhead, WI — A fundraising effort is underway to collect $1 million for the construction of the Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead, where visitors would be able to see vintage airplanes, automobiles and other historical artifacts, the
Eden Prairie, MN — Wings of the North (WOTN) is planning a Grand Opening event for the Wings of the North Air Museum at the Flying Cloud Airport in Eden Prairie. This celebration will take place from 8 a.m. to
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC Canada — Volunteers at the Canadian Aviation Heritage Centre say the recent death of its founder, Godfrey Pasmore, has filled them with more drive to keep the museum’s doors open. Pasmore died on March 12, at the age of 83. Eighteen
London, ON Canada — The Jet Aircraft Museum will soon be home to a Hawker Hunter aircraft, an iconic Cold War-era plane that served the British Royal Air Force for decades as a ground attack jet and fighter-bomber. “We are just
New York, NY — Almost 40 years after it gave chase to the space shuttle Enterprise, a NASA jet is about to catch up with the prototype winged orbiter at a museum in New York City. The two-seat, supersonic T-38
Gatwick, UK — An aviation museum is to reopen three years after its owner died. The Gatwick Aviation Museum (GAM) will open in its new hangar in Lowfield Heath Road, Charlwood, on Good Friday (March 25). Founder Peter Vallance’s proposals
Travis AFB, CA — The Travis AFB Heritage Center is undergoing a transformation that will narrow its scope of exhibits to better show visitors the history of Travis, military airlift and the commands that have called the installation home since it
East Lothian, UK — An airplane which played a significant role in the RAF’s success in the Second World War has been fitted with a new propeller at the National Museum of Flight. The 1942 Bristol Bolingbroke aircraft is based at
Atwater, CA — After years of waiting, the Castle Air Museum in Atwater received a “gem” of a plane on Monday to add to its collection of nearly 70 historical aircraft. An F-16 Fighting Falcon that served with the 144th
PRESS RELEASE — Seattle, WA — The Museum of Flight’s recently-restored Boeing 727 prototype will make its first flight in 25 years on March 2 – weather permitting – at about 10:30 a.m.; the flight will also be the airplane’s