Thrilled to announce that Kelch Aviation Museum & our own Ami are featured on PBS Wisconsin Education‘s history-education webseries, The Look Back! We had a blast filming (and flying) with the PBS crew in August, highlighting the fascinating story of early air navigation. We’re excited to share the Golden Age

It’s TONIGHT! Don’t miss our Hallowing Hangar Dance, tonight at the Kelch Aviation Museum in Brodhead. Experience the sights and sounds of the 1940s with the Waunakee Big Band and a backdrop of amazing antique airplanes & cars. Tickets are $30 online or $35 at the door, kids tickets $15.

Movie night is TONIGHT at the museum, at 6:30pm! We’re showing “Zero Hour” this month and “Airplane!” next month… Come see both and see how many scenes you recognize!

Thanks to the Wisconsin Aviation Hall of Fame for their continuing additions to their awesome display at the Kelch Aviation Museum.

The Aurora Borealis was bright over the Kelch Aviation Museum and Brodhead Airport last night. Thanks to Kerryann DiLoreto for the pictures!

Personal connections to history are what make museum work so special and life-changing, and we had a doozy last week here at the museum: Leigh Terrass from Washington state contacted us a few months ago with a remarkable story about her mother, Jackie, who received her pilot’s certificate in 1936

On Saturday, September 21st, the Kelch Aviation Museum’s board vice president, Kent McMakin, was awarded the Charles Taylor Master Mechanic Award for 50 years of outstanding work as an aviation mechanic. If you know Kent, you know he doesn’t like parties, so we kept it a secret until he walked

A story that spans nearly a hundred years, thousands of miles, and one small handmade airplane. This is the stuff of vintage homebuilt aviation dreams: Then: The early 1930s, Canada. Two young Chinese-Canadian brothers who caught the flying bug but had only depression-era resources. What to do? Build a Pietenpol,

The Cessna 120/140 Association is holding their annual convention at Poplar Grove Airport in Illinois, just a few miles away from us. The museum is one of the stops on their Poker Run, so we have seen a nonstop flow of these nice little historic airplanes from the 1940s today.