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LeRoy LaBarre Memorial Challenge Grant

The Kelch Aviation Museum has received a $2,000 challenge grant in memory of the late LeRoy T. “Bud” LaBarre, longtime Brodhead Airport manager and aircraft

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Travel Air 3000 Wing Work

The latest in our continuing series of virtual aircraft tours. Join Collections Manager, Ami Eckard-Lee as she works on a historic wing from a Hollywood

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Painting the Display Cabinets

Hannah is busy painting our second hand display cabinets. We’re one day closer to opening!

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Rick Hansen’s Travel Air

Watch this awesome video from EAA about our good friend Rick Hansen and his Travel Air restoration. (We’re keeping Rick’s airplane in our museum hangar

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3D Model of Phase I

Long-time museum supporter Frank Gattolin stopped in this morning to drop off a hand-made scale model of the Phase I building. Since moving full-sized planes

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“Shorty” Lambert

You might be cool, but you’re not “Shorty” Lambert cool. Here we see Stafford Lambert with his Sirius 8A, probably NC16W, at St. Louis’ Lambert

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Laird LC-300

Laird LC-300, X-634, date and location unknown. Medium format negative from the Leo Kohn Collection.

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Phase II Progress

With the relatively decent weather this week, the building crew finished up with the steel siding on our Phase II building, the Kent Joranlien Memorial

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Bird Aviation Patch

We have a limited number of vintage Bird aviation patches. They are for sale on our website: kelchmuseum.org/product/bird-logo-patches Give them a look while they are

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International Women’s Day 2021

Today is International Women’s Day! There are so many strong and amazing women in the history of aviation, and today we are celebrating them. Here

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