Aviation art alert! We received this lovely original ad for the States Super Monoplane – along with dozens more – in a donation to the Archive & Library. We were gonna post this as a Name That Plane challenge – but it has the name right on it, and I

Throwback Thursday! Here’s Brodhead Airport, our home airport, way back in 1976 during one of EAA chapter 431’s early corn boil fly-ins. There are so many more cars than planes – it’s a bit playing like playing Where’s Waldo to find them – and back then there were only a

Throwback Thursday! Well, every day is a throwback day here… EAA Chapter 431 has been holding fly-ins at our home airport, Brodhead Airport, since the early 1970s. Here’s a poster from the Kelch Archive, the year that EAA’s replica of the Spirit of St Louis came to Brodhead!

We’re internationally famous! An Italian aviation magazine, JP4: Mensile di Aeronautica e Spazio, reached out to us requesting info about the Pietenpol that Gary Baglien donated to us in November. This month, they featured a small piece about the Pietenpol donation and Kelch Aviation Museum! As random luck would have

Happy new year! It’s been incredibly balmy in Brodhead, so we welcomed the new year with a bit of open-cockpit flying! May 2020 bring you clear blue skies. Thank you, one and all, for your support in 2019! From fly-ins to Facebook photo contests to seeing our Phase 1 building

Skot Wiedmann sent along this aerial picture of our new museum hangar. Thanks, Skot!

Here’s some stunning magazine art from the archives! The Corben Super-Ace is a homebuilt plane, and a set of plans and construction articles originally appeared in Popular Aviation, starting with this issue in April 1935. We’re close to home with this one: The Corben Sport Plane and Supply Company was

Happy Holidays! Whatever you celebrate, here’s hoping your season is merry and bright! Meanwhile, looks like Santa upgraded his ride…

Here’s wishing you safe travels over the holidays! If you’re sick of traffic, remember – you could “fly in comfort for two cents a mile” in a Fairchild. Looks a little chilly to me… This vintage ad from a 1939 Aero Digest magazine is one of the countless delightful treasures

I had no idea that Ray-Ban sunglasses (or should I say sun goggles?) were around in 1939 – but here’s an ad from that year’s Aero Digest. Those pilots certainly look dapper – and like they might fit in in 1975! This original vintage magazine, along with hundreds of others,