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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 […]

Jimmy Carter exhibit at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta Int’l Airport

07/21/10
A new exhibit at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport: Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son,” uses mementos, photographs and artifacts to tell the story of the South Georgia peanut farmer who become the state’s 76th governor and eventually the nation’s 39th president. Jimmy Carter: Georgia’s Native Son is displayed in the walkway connecting the main security […]

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 […]

Aviation and space museums on the must-see list

06/25/10
(Hanging planes at Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ) I am an idiot. At least that’s what some fans of Dayton, Ohio’s United States Air Force Museum and many other aviation museums were calling me today. They read my msnbc.com column – Aviation and space museums that soar – and were pissed that their […]
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