Category: museums

What We Expect to See at the EAA’s AirVenture 2025 at Oshkosh

The Douglas AD Skyraider design will celebrate its 80th anniversary in 2025 EAA Press Releases with added notes and photos by Ken Kula EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2025 promises to be filled with dozens of examples of aviation innovations, all...

Looking Back: Thunder Over Michigan 2016

Story and photos by Del Laughery From its humble beginnings as a mere symposium in 1999, the Thunder Over Michigan air show at the Ypsilanti Airport near Detroit, has offered an extraordinary view of current and past military aircraft,...

Martin Mars Makes Its Last Delivery Flight

Photos by Keith Charlot, story by Ken Kula There have been plenty of historic “final flights” of a last airworthy example of an aircraft type. A much-followed example of this was the final flights of the last airworthy Martin...

The Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum

Story and photos by Corey Beitler The Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Aviation Museum is located on property formerly part of the Naval Air Station-Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove military installation that was once owned by aviation pioneer...

VISITING THE FAGEN FIGHTERS WWII MUSEUM

Story and photos by Scott Jankowski Granite Falls Minnesota is located about 130 miles due West of the Twin Cities, with the Granite Falls Municipal Airport better known as Lenzen-Roe-Fagen Memorial Field situated 4 nautical miles from downtown. This...

Manchester, New Hampshire Spotting August 23, 2024

avelo Boeing B-737-8F2 rolls out after landing at Manchester, New Hampshire Article and photos by Ken Kula Manchester, New Hampshire’s hometown airport actually sits within two municipalities… the city of Manchester and the town of Litchfield. Plans for the...

TOP GUN House

The TOP GUN House is in Oceanside California. It is located at 250 N Pacific St, Oceanside, CA 92054 I had the chance to visit the historic structure on a recent trip to Southern California. First week of January...

Pacific Airshow Project with the Aviation PhotoCrew

Story and photos by David Campion In October 2023, I decided to tick off a bucket list item and sign up for an air-to-air project with the Aviation Photo Crew after the chance to photograph aerial refueling during Pitch...

The Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association – a. k. a. The River Rats

Story by Ken Kula, with plenty of help from the “River Rats” Association U. S. military aircraft began bombing targets in North Vietnam in March 1965 and completed their campaigns by December 1972. Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine...

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