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!

Throwback Thursday: Matty Laird, founder of Laird Airplane Co, posing with our own Al Kelch, founder of the Kelch Aviation Museum! Al was a huge Laird fan, and was lucky enough to get to know Matty in the 1970s.

Look, we’re in the current issue of Group Tour Magazine! Schedule your group tour with us soon. Bring a bus load or a car load or fly-out with your local pilots group. We’re happy to accommodate any size group and can even arrange for meals on site. Call or e-mail

Ahh, nothing like a good old fashioned sectional! Navigation has changed so much since the early years of flight, but map-reading skills will never go out of style. A favorite book here at the museum is “Pilots Directions,” a handbook published in 1921 by the U.S. Post Office’s Air Mail

For Veteran’s Day, we chose to honor Lt. Douglas Holt, one of the key people who made the Kelch Aviation Museum a reality. An original trustee of the Alfred & Lois Kelch Charitable Trust and a mentor and advisor to the early Kelch Aviation Museum staff, Doug was a renown

Here’s an original 1929 ad from Aero Digest featuring the Laird Airplane Co., “The Thoroughbred of the Airways.” The vintage artwork of this era is so striking, part of what makes the Golden Age so iconic.

Five years ago this week, our 1928 Stearman C3B appeared on the cover of Vintage Airplane magazine. This rare aircraft was flown to the EAA “Airventure” convention in Oshkosh earlier that year and we brought home a nice plaque for “Antique Silver Age Open Cockpit Biplane.”