The Kelch Aviation Museum is proud to announce a major gift from the William S. Knight Foundation, a challenge grant of $370,000 toward the construction of a new museum facility. The main hangar at the new museum will be named, “The Bill & Sue Knight Memorial Vintage Aviation and Automotive

As a non-profit museum, we are in the fundraising business and like it or not, asking people for money is part of the daily grind. Sometimes though, an unsolicited donation comes in that rewards all of the effort and reaffirms what we are trying to do at the Kelch Aviation

The Kelch Aviation Museum is once again hosting a “Wisconsin Flying Hamburger Social” on Wednesday, June 13 from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. This is a casual, weeknight event designed to give local pilots a place to fly and a reason to go flying! Brats, burgers and other picnic-type stuff will

Director Greg Heckman made the first run of his newly restored 1928 Lincoln Page LP-3 today at Brodhead Airport. The OX-5 engine is original to this aircraft and hasn’t run in 89 years when the LP-3 last flew. See Greg’s restoration blog here: http://ghaviation.blogspot.com/

In the course of operating a non-profit museum, large unbudgeted expenses sometimes come up. This is true of any organization.  In our case, owning 2.5 acres of property requires a quality lawn tractor to keep the place looking nice and up until now, we have been using borrowed equipment from

Our friend Patrick Webb from Preferred Altitude, LLC stopped by the Kelch Aviation Museum last August to do an interview for his Preferred Altitude Podcast. The podcast has just been published and you can listen to it here: 10 – Brodhead Airport’s Kelch Aviation Museum Be sure to check out

We recently unearthed this great photograph of an antique airplane fly-in at Al and Lois Kelch’s home near Mequon, Wisconsin dated September, 1979. If you look closely, you can see a wonderful assortment of vintage and antique airplanes and no shortage of cars and people. Looks like a great time,

The family of the late Kent Joranlien of Poynette, Wis. has pledged $125,000 to the Kelch Aviation Museum at Brodhead Airport. The funds will be used to build the “Kent E. Joranlien Memorial Fellowship Hall in the new museum facility planned for construction in 2018.   Kent Joranlien was a

This week is the annual “Grassroots” fly-in put on by the Midwest Antique Airplane Club at Brodhead Airport. The Kelch Aviation Museum is taking part by hosting a Reception at our current museum facility on the north end of the airport on Friday evening, Sept. 8 at 7:00 p.m. We’ll

Our last Wisconsin Flying Hamburger Social of 2017 was another raging success. 28 airplanes flew in and we fed close to 150 people.Stay tuned for next summer’s schedule and join us a for a weeknight of food, fun and airplanes. Below is  time-lapse movie of the action on Wednesday night.