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26 April 1939: The United States Army Air Corps placed an order for 524 Curtiss-Wright P-40 Warhawks. This was the largest production order for any U.S.-built fighter since World War I. The total cost was $12,872,398. This photo shows Curtiss-Wright chief test pilot H. Loyd Child in the cockpit Read More...

We were honored to have a visit by Ida May Oakes Forbes who worked at Bell in the 1940s installing rivets in airplanes. She an her family visited the museum where she shared stories and saw many familiar things among our exhibits.  We were even able to have her visit the old Bell Aircraft factory Read More...

Museum members and guests were treated to a VERY special talk at the museum on March 20.  Alice Bowman, the Mission Operations Manager ("MOM") for the New Horizons mission, shared her insights  on the recent fly-by mission to capture images and other data of Pluto and the Kuiper Belt Object, Ultima Read More...

On January 23, 1939, A Curtiss Hawk 75A pursuit plane, one of 100 being constructed for the French Government, “substantially exceeded all known speed records” with a free dive of more than 575 miles per hour. Read more about this event at This Day in Aviation. Read More...

18 December 1941: First Lieutenant Boyd David (“Buzz”) Wagner, United States Army Air Corps, commanding officer of the 17th Pursuit Squadron (Interceptor) at Nichols Field, Pasay City, Commonwealth of the Philippines, shot down his fifth Japanese airplane, a Mitsubishi A6M2 Type Zero fighter, with Read More...