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

With the recent purchase of the property and buildings next to Brodhead Airport where we intend to construct our new museum building, we inherited quite a collection of aviation parts and accessories from the previous owner. Not to mention quite a collection of non-aviation “stuff”. After several weeks of removing

One of the original trustees of the Alfred & Lois Kelch Charitable Trust and a long time friend of Al Kelch is Doug Holt, from Mequon, Wisconsin. Doug has a long history with the restoration, maintenance and flying of the Kelch collection aircraft and has been a champion of the

Yesterday, we removed the tarps and brought our newly acquired ’37 Taylorcraft A out of its hangar and moved it to the south Kelch Museum hangars. It will stay there for the summer and should look good once it is cleaned up a bit. This aircraft was built in May

It’s official! On Thursday, April 30, 2015, the Kelch Aviation Museum completed the purchase of the property and hangars at N2463 Airport Road in Brodhead, right next door to the Brodhead Airport. The seller is Lee Stenson, a longtime fixture at Brodhead Airport and collector of antique aircraft himself. Much

Hello, and thanks for visiting the Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum website. In this space, we’ll post news and updates about the museum collection, events and most importantly for now, our new museum building. Al Kelch’s collection of antique airplanes, cars and artifacts goes back several decades and includes