[ March 5, 2015; 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Former Tipp City resident Casey Williams will discuss how the Air Force moves cargo and people—including presidents—in his his talk “Where in the World Is Air Force One” as WACO Air Museum’s guest lecturer at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 5.
A 2007 graduate of Tipp City High School, Williams currently serves as Special Air Missions Agent with the 89th Aerial […]
[ April 18, 2015; 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Champaign Aviation Museum’s annual fundraising gala in April is to feature Bud Anderson, a decorated World War II pilot and National Aviation Hall of Fame enshrinee.
Anderson will speak on Saturday, April 18 in the museum’s hangar on Historic Grimes Field in Urbana. Scheduled activities include a social beginning at 5:30 p.m., a flyover of the museum’s […]
The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force recognized the famed Tuskegee Airmen on Tuesday, Feb. 11, with the opening of an expanded exhibit in the museum’s World War II Gallery.
The exhibit honors the black military pilots, navigators, bombardiers, armorers, maintainers, trainers, administrators and support personnel who fought during the war.
The U.S. military was racially […]
DAYTON, Ohio — The world’s largest military aviation museum now offers free wireless Internet to its visitors, according to a museum announcement.
Provided by the Air Force Museum Foundation, WiFi will be available to National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors free of charge throughout all galleries in the main museum complex, as well as the lobby […]
[ February 21, 2015; 2:00 pm to 2:40 pm. ] DAYTON, Ohio—The Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park has scheduled a free ranger program for Saturday, Feb. 7, about Paul Laurence Dunbar’s visit to the The Chicago World’s Fair in 1893.
The National Park Service has selected Joy G. Kinard to be the first superintendent of the Charles Young Buffalo Soldiers National Monument in Wilberforce, Ohio, officials announced this month. Kinard will begin her new assignment in late February.
“We are delighted that Dr. Kinard will be the next superintendent of Charles Young,” Acting Midwest Regional Director Patricia Trap said in a prepared announcement. […]
[ January 24, 2015; 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. ] National Museum of the U.S. Air Force visitors will have the opportunity to meet members of the Cincinnati Reds organization on Jan. 24 from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m, according to a museum announcement.
All-Star third baseman Todd Frazier, manager Bryan Price, broadcasters Jim Day and Jeff Piecoro, minor league shortstop Alex Blandino, Director of Player Development Jeff Graupe and mascot Mr. Red are scheduled to appear at the museum stop.
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio—The National Aviation Heritage Alliance (NAHA) presented its third annual Mitchell Cary-Don Gum Memorial Aviation Scholarship on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the Wright Brothers Memorial as part of the First Flight anniversary ceremony, marking 111 years of powered flight.
NAHA Chairman Frank Winslow announced the award, worth $1,500 in flight instructions, as Wright “B” […]
DAYTON, Ohio—The National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) on Tuesday, Dec. 16, announced the names of four individuals who have been elected for enshrinement at its annual formal ceremony, Friday, October 2, 2015 in Dayton. On that night they will officially join the roster of 225 men and women air and space pioneers who have […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio—State Representative Rick Perales is working to have Ohio formally recognize August 19 as National Aviation Day. On Wednesday, Dec. 10—a week before the 111th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first powered flights—Perales testified on behalf of House Bill 583 at its first hearing in the State and Local Government Commmittee.
Orville Wright, who invented […]
