We are excited to announce that the Brodhead Area Foundation has awarded the Kelch Aviation Museum a $30,000 match grant! We have one year to raise $30,000, which will then be matched dollar for dollar by the Brodhead Area Foundation. This will be a tremendous boost toward our $1 Million

Join us on Wednesday, June 15th as we try something new at the museum. We will be hosting a Wisconsin Flying Hamburger Social, starting at 5:30 p.m., featuring the usual Wisconsin cook-out fare, hamburgers, bratwurst and all the fixings. Fly-in or drive-in for a friendly evening cook out. The meal is a

Our display at the EAA Chapter 431 Community Pancake Breakfast on May 22 attracted a lot of attention and we were able to talk to a lot of folks curious about the new museum project. Thanks to all who came out for the events around Brodhead Airport and who took

With the arrival of spring, its time to begin maintenance on some of the Kelch Aviation Museum airplanes ahead of the flying season. We will again fly the Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 12W, but we decided to bring one more aircraft back to life this season. After some discussion over the winter, we selected

A big thank you goes out to Greg Peck, editor of the Janesville Gazette for this fantastic editorial from a few weeks back. Check it out at the link below. Our Views: Museum plans are aviation gift to Brodhead – Gazettextra: GazettextraOur Views: Museum pl… https://t.co/dHHOfq7PN2 #aviation — Flight News

Reporter Andrea Anderson and photographer Angela Major out together an outstanding article for the Janesville Gazette in Saturday, April 9th edition. It’s behind a paywall, but can be accessed through the Gazette’s Twitter feed at this link: Fundraising underway for Brodhead Airport aviation museum https://t.co/2yq3VCHF9n — GazetteXtra (@gazettextra) April 9,

Monday, April 4, 2016 A big day here at the Kelch Aviation Museum, as we officially launch our capital fundraiser for our new museum building! Over the past year, the Alfred & Lois Kelch Charitable Trust has helped fund the property purchase next to Brodhead Airport and we have made continual

Over the winter, we have been making some changes to the proposed building plans for the new Kelch Aviation Museum. Our architect is a good friend of the museum and understands what we want to build to showcase our collection and provide a center of activity for Brodhead Airport functions,

For all of the nonsense that can be found on the internet, every once in a while, you find something that is just….well, cool! The video below was forwarded to us yesterday and it falls squarely into the “cool” category. Published by EAA, the footage was taken during the 2015

Hi all! We’re hoping that everybody is having a wonderful holiday season. This week, I have been scanning several albums of photos that were recently donated to the Kelch Aviation Museum showing early aviation in Wisconsin. Some of these are really fascinating and while I haven’t fully researched the photographer