“Junkyard Jets” will be the featured topic at the Oakland Aviation Museum speaker series Saturday, June 16. Speaker Doug Scroggins is the managing member and co-owner of ARC Aerospace Industries and Scroggins Aviation, both specializing in large commercial aircraft parts, salvage and recovery. Doug comes from the film and television entertainment field as a director […]
Museums
Museum slates open cockpit day
Oakland Aviation Museum in California will host an open cockpit day Father’s Day, June 17. Attendees can get a chance to sit in a Korean War MiG-15, a Navy A-6 simulator trailer, a Navy A-3 Sky Warrior, as well as tour the Solent Flying Boat from the movie “Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark.”
Lindbergh’s goggles on display at San Diego museum
The goggles worn by Charles Lindbergh during his historic flight across the Atlantic in 1927 are now on display at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in honor of the flight’s 85th anniversary. The goggles are a part of the museum’s current special exhibition, “How Things Fly,” a fun, hands-on exhibit exploring the forces […]
Air Zoo to host international art exhibit
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — On June 3 the Air Zoo will unveil the 2012 American Society of Aviation Artists (ASAA) International Aerospace Art Exhibit. The exhibit will feature more than 50 pieces of aviation and space artwork, ranging from photographs, to paintings and sculptures. “The exhibit will include artwork from more than 30 world-renowned aviation and […]
Remembering The Mighty Eighth
Traveling I-95, the East Coast’s main street, you come to something seemingly out of place in Savannah, Georgia: A museum dedicated to World War II’s Eighth Air Force. Visit and you’ll see why it’s here. You can’t fly-in, but it’s only two miles from KSAV. Why Savannah? Nearby Hunter Field was “the birthplace of the […]
Weather exhibit featured at museum
This summer expect rain, snow, tornadoes, sunshine, wind, and clouds at the American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum in the Dallas area. Starting May 26, the museum will host “The Zula Patrol: Mission Weather” exhibit based on the popular children’s TV series. Designed for family fun, the colorful characters of The Zula Patrol will teach children […]
Museum wins grant
The International Women’s Air & Space Museum (IWASM) has received funding from the Wolf Aviation Fund for the conservation treatment of an Eric Sloane oil portrait of award winning balloonist Constance Wolf. During her lifetime, Constance Wolf (1905-1994) was the first woman to cross the Alps in a balloon and set 15 world records, including […]
African American Pioneers of Flight exhibit at Evergreen Museum
A Smithsonian exhibition examining African American contributions in aviation will be on display at Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Ore., from May 12 through Aug. 5. Presented by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum, “Black Wings: American Dreams of Flight” examines the contributions of some of the most important African American aviators […]
New board of directors for Houston museum
The members of the Houston Aeronautical Heritage Society, Inc., the non-profit organization the operates the 1940 Air Terminal Museum, have elected a new board of directors. The new board includes: Dana Atkinson, president of Anson Air, a flight training school located at Sugar Land Municipal Airport. He has been elected HAHS’ new president. Steve Holmes, […]