Engine Maintenance “…on the fly”

Be sure to keep your rockers greased at all times.

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Shiny New Walls

Shiny new walls and floor! We can’t wait to build displays and signage and move in the airplanes!

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Movie Special Effects

Hey, remember those days when movie special effects meant creativity and daring – and maybe a little insanity? Running a museum seems to require the same skills… 😉 This is one of the latest acquisitions in Kelch’s archive. We’re excited about our extensive photo collection, and we keep discovering new

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Check Out Our New Walls

Check out our new walls! Workers are finishing up the trim work on our corrugated steel interior walls and it looks fantastic. Next step for the hangar is building displays and moving in the airplanes. You can help keep the work going by donating today. Every dollar counts. Visit: www.kelchmuseum.org/donate

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An Aviation Valentine

There’s so much to love about the Golden Age of Aviation! Happy Valentine’s Day from Kelch Aviation Museum. What do you love most about vintage aviation?

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Monroe Woman’s Club Donates $1,000

The Monroe Woman’s Club donated $1,000 to the Kelch Aviation Museum as part of their Community Improvement Program. Here, Konnie Thompson presents the check to Pat Weeden, Executive Director of the museum. Thank you so much for the support!  

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Interior Steel Pickup

Today we picked up the corrugated steel interior wall coverings for the new hangar! They’ll be installed in the next few weeks. The hangar is really coming along and we can’t wait to fill it with new museum displays and airplanes. We can’t open the doors until Phase 2 is

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Flashback Friday With Al Kelch

Flashback Friday…Here’s Al Kelch himself performing an engine run-up on the 1932 Franklin Sport 90, sometime in the early 1970s. This aircraft has a 90 h.p. Lambert radial engine, and will be a centerpiece in our new museum hangar.

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