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Museum Monday: Kansas Aviation Museum

08/23/10
There are close to 700 aviation/space-related museums in the country. Each Monday on StuckatTheAirport.com we profile one of them. Eventually we’ll hit them all. Today: The Kansas Aviation Museum in Wichita, Kansas The museum is near the McConnell Air Force Base and is housed in the art deco-style building that served as Wichita’s municipal airport […]

Museum Monday: 1940 Air Terminal Museum, Houston Hobby Airport

08/09/10
There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in this country. Each Monday, we take a look at one of them.  Stick around. Eventually we’ll visit them all! This week: The 1940 Air Terminal Museum at Houston’s William P. Hobby Airport. Housed in the airport’s original art deco air terminal,the museum is dedicated to […]

Museum Monday: 1928 biplane inside Ottawa International Airport

08/01/10
There are close to 700 aviation and space museums in the country. Each Monday, we explore one of them. This week we have the story of a fun partnership between Canada’s Ottawa International Airport (YOW) and Vintage Wings of Canada, a local organization that acquires, restores, maintains and flies classic and significant aircraft, with an […]

Visiting the oldest flying Boeing airplane

07/24/10
Friday morning I had the extreme pleasure of spending some time with Addison Pemberton and his wife,Wendy, at Pemberton & Sons Aviation headquarters at Spokane, Washington’s Felts Field. Using many parts from the original aircraft, Pemberton, his family and more than 60 volunteers completely restored a 1928 Boeing 40C airplane that crashed into a mountainside […]

In Spokane: the world’s oldest flying Boeing airplane

07/23/10
I’ve been touring Spokane, WA and the surrounding countryside this week in search of unusual people, places and events to include in the 3rd edition of Washington Curiosities, one of the books I write for Globe Pequot Press. The week will end with a visit to Felts Field to meet Addison Pemberton, who found and […]

Museum Monday: Museum of Flight, Seattle

07/19/10
It’s Museum Monday here at StuckatTheAirport.com, so time to take a look at one of the 694 aviation museums around the country. This week: a quick look at Seattle’s Museum of Flight, which has just kicked off a new exhibit about women in the aerospace industry: Chasing Horizons: Women in Aerospace. Associated Women Pilots of […]

Museum Monday: Gallery of Flight at Milwaukee General Mitchell Int’l Airport

07/12/10
If you like flying, chances are you like airplanes. And if you like airplanes, chances are you like visiting aviation museums once in a while. Lucky for you there are more than 600 aviation and space-related museums around the country.   Each Monday, StuckatTheAirport.com visits one of them. This week, it’s the Mitchell Gallery of Flight […]

Museum Monday: LAX Flight Path Learning Center and Museum

07/05/10
There are close to 700 aviation & space museums around the county and in my recent msnbc.com column Aviation and Space Museums that Soar, I only had room to list six of them. The best of the rest we’ll get to know here, during Museum Mondays on StuckatTheAirport.com. Last week, it was the New England […]
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