Mother Nature finally relented and our landscaping is underway around the new museum hangar. A new driveway and parking area are in on the east

Today, we moved one of the rarest items in our collection to the new hangar; this Fairchild-Caminez cam engine. Forget what you learned in engineering

On May 20-21st, 1932, Amelia Earhart, flying a Lockheed Vega, became the first woman to make a solo flight across the North Atlantic. She took

At this time, we’re all relying so much on airmail, and yet it’s barely 100 years old! On this day in 1918, the USA Post

We posted a photo of our Charles Lindbergh statue last week. Here’s a photo of the real man, in Milwaukee in 1927.

There’s a nice sunset reflected off the museum’s windows tonight.

We moved Charles Lindbergh into the new hangar today – with proper health precautions, of course… Let this photo go on the record: at Kelch

When we’re not working from home, our staff wears masks. We know we may look a bit odd, but we aren’t the first ones –

An awesome piece of local history has joined the museum, on permanent loan from the Brodhead Fire District. This Pirsch REO fire truck was purchased

Someone donated a pamphlet from the Cole Brothers’ airshow in Brodhead back in 1953. Cool! Here’s some video of that same show in Rockford a