This place is hopping today! Excavators, electricians, cribbers, masons…not to mention the usual Brodhead Airport job supervisors. Construction of our Phase III “Wagner Welcome Atrium” has begun in earnest this week. The museum is still open normal hours; Wednesday – Sunday, 10am to 4pm. Please mind the barricades and equipment

All I want for Christmas is an airplane… Kids with their (impressive!) homebuilt toy airplane, late 1930s. Many of us dreamed of flying a plane when we were kids, but few of us built a model this elaborate! Donate now to support accessible aviation opportunities and education for kids (and

We’re temporarily out of stock of our biplane Christmas tree ornaments – but they’ll be back this week! Get yours before we run out again: The museum (and gift shop) is open today from 10am to 4pm, or you can shop online at www.kelchmuseum.org/product/biplane-christmas-ornament

Brothers Kent and Kurt Van Galder donated two very special items with some incredible local history: A painting of their father, Russell, bailing out of an airplane – and the very same parachute that saved his life in that incident! Many local aviators remember Russell Van Galder, a flight instructor

You’re invited to the Kelch Aviation Museum vintage holiday open house! Come join us for cookies, crafts, cocoa, live music – and oh yeah, AIRPLANES! Invite a friend and RSVP on our facebook event page: fb.me/e/25c4MR8rJ

New limited edition biplane Christmas tree ornaments for sale now! They’re so cute and hand decorated 🤩 head over to our gift shop to buy one now – in person or online.

15% off all merchandise in our online gift shop this weekend. Call it Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday or whatever, enter code FLY2022 at checkout to receive the discount through Monday, 11/28. https://www.kelchmuseum.org/shop/

We’re closed Thanksgiving Day, but we hope you enjoy your holiday as much as Charlie Black of New York did on this early Pan American Airways flight. Photo by Bettmann/Corbis. The museum will open again on Friday, November 25 from 10am to 4pm. Stop by with the family!

Old Magazines with Michael John, no. 6: The Birth of A New Magazine, Lindbergh, and the Bird My love for old aviation magazines started back in highschool when I would read the then-current issues, in particular FLYING MAGAZINE.  Whenever a new issue of FLYING arrived, I immediately looked inside the