Experience vintage aviation at the Kelch Aviation Museum!

Here’s the very first in our series of Video Virtual Tours, where Ami shows us around the 1929 Stearman C3-B.

Earlier this year, the Kelch Aviation Museum fulfilled its obligation to match a major donation from the William S. Knight Foundation totaling $370,000. Read the original grant announcement here. The 2020 installment of the three year challenge grant was $123,333, and the museum raised its portion on August 1st. The

The Brodhead Area Foundation recently sent the final installment of a three-year grant to the Kelch Aviation Museum, totaling $135,000.

We’re launching a new video series so you can visit the museum virtually during the continued lockdown. Join us as we add features on the large artifacts in the collection.

We’re still fundraising for the museum’s Phase II building, which will allow us to open to the public. Consider donating or buying some of the great merchandise we have for sale on our website. Every little bit helps.

A low and slow pass for our photographer last night. Larry and Ilse are in the 1932 Curtiss-Wright 12W and Bill pilots the 1930 Fleet 7 “Deluxe” with the museum hangar in the background. Did anyone in town see these vintage biplanes out last night?

A beautiful summer evening at the museum.

Trustee Larry Harmacinski and his wife Ilse are in the Kelch hangars today, tinkering with the Curtiss-Wright and doing some museum flying! It’s great to see pals and to have the plane soaring in the sky again! What’s your favorite part of tinkering and hangar life?

The Red Baron wants you to know that today is National Aviation Day! Air mail is just one of the myriad ways aviation changed the world and influenced the modern age, and we are proud to display Mike Williams’s beautifully restored 1928 Stearman C3-B mail plane.What’s your favorite thing about