A Beautiful Day to Visit!
It’s a beautiful day at the Kelch Aviation Museum! Drive or fly out to Brodhead Airport for a visit. We’re open 10-4 with free admission
Car Show
An awesome turnout today for the Jeremy Pinnow and Associates, Inc., Customer Appreciation Car Show. This was a fundraiser for the museum, organized by Brodhead High School senior, Brady Bruns, to benefit the museum’s Phase III building project. A big thank you to Brady, and to Jeremy and his team.https://www.facebook.com/Jeremy-Pinnow-Associates-Inc-1742636045837856/
Story Time With Ms. Carol
Brodhead Memorial Public Library hosted story time at the museum this week! Ms Carol reads about airplanes, and Pilot Pat talks about how they work. Watch on YouTube, and share with the kids you know – aviation is fun for all ages!
Drawing on Display
This beautiful pencil drawing of the OX-5 powered Travel Air 2000 that’s on display at the museum was made by homeschool student Kale. Amazing job! Aviation has inspired artists from the very first flight, and it’s super cool to see the art our visitors make. We love having kids and
Story Time!
It’s Story Time! The Brodhead Public Library staff is in the museum today filming this week’s story time about airplanes. We’ll post the link on Friday.
Pizza & A Movie
Pizza is here! Join us for pizza and a movie at our Museum Movie night. “Men with Wings” starts at 8:00 pm. Thanks to Jesse’s Stone Oven Pizza for sponsoring the event!
Museum Movie Night 09/10
Join us for Museum Movie Night this Friday September 10th at 7:30pm! We’ll be showing “Men With Wings” and serving pizza, and it’s all open to the public. The movie is from 1938 – and one of the airplanes in it is now partially on display in our collection! Pizza
Curtiss OX-5
We have added a rare and unique antique airplane engine to our collection, thanks to Sue and Terry Donaldson, owners of the House on the Rock in Spring Green, Wisconsin. This Curtiss OX-5 is believed to be from Charles Lindbergh’s first airplane, a Curtiss JN4DC “Jenny” and it fits perfectly
“In The 608” Show
A big thanks to Josh and crew from Channel 3000 for visiting the museum this morning. Check out all four clips from today’s “In The 608” show and see our new museum up close!