On December 4-5, the city of Brodhead will hold their annual Fire & Ice Festival on Exchange Square in downtown Brodhead. The Kelch Aviation Museum will be bringing our 1936 Russell Lightplane downtown for display on Friday, Dec 4th from 3:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., weather permitting. Also, we will

The November/December, 2015 issue of EAA’s Vintage Airplane magazine features our Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 12W in a night shot taken at Oshkosh back in July. The aircraft is sitting in the new Bill and Myrt Rose display area in front of the Vintage Aircraft headquarters. Photo by Phil High.

We received word over the weekend that Douglas Holt of Mequon, Wis., “Flew West” on Wednesday morning, October 7th, 2015. Doug was a trustee of the Alfred & Lois Kelch Charitable Trust and a mentor and advisor to the Kelch Aviation Museum, Inc. Many people in the aviation community knew Doug

The 2015 Midwest Antique Airplane Club’s “Grassroots” fly-in was one of the best in recent memory. While an official count is not available, estimates of 250 airplanes in attendance were common, including six of the Kelch Aviation Museum aircraft and another five owned by museum directors. The display area in front

The Midwest Antique Airplane Club’s annual “Grassroots” fly-in is September 10-12 at the Brodhead Airport and the Kelch Aviation Museum will be joining in the fun by having an Open House at our new property. Come out and see our new building plans up close, have a root beer float

We now have some cool Kelch Aviation Museum swag, like T-Shirts and decals. Click the link above for the Museum Store and check it out. We can ship anywhere in the world. Help spread the word about our museum!

Since the Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 12W had been returned to flight and was operating beautifully, we decided to take her up to Oshkosh for the big annual EAA fly-in. (Sorry, it will never be Airventure to me!) Director Greg Heckman flew it up on Wednesday, July 15 and we got

Those of you familiar with Brodhead Airport will know that next weekend is the annual Pietenpol/Hatz Fly-in, July 17-19. We thought it would be a great opportunity to open up our new hangars right next to all the activity of the fly-in and show off some of our collection. So,

Since the Kelch Aviation Museum was formed as a non-profit corporation in 2012, a major goal of our ours has been to fly as many of the original collection of Al & Lois Kelch’s aircraft to the extent possible, both financially and practically. We chose to do this in order to keep

Several weeks ago, we gathered the logbooks of all the Kelch Aviation Museum aircraft to determine which one would be the best candidate to get flying this year. The board of directors had decided that we fly at least one aircraft each year in order to keep everything in a state