WORLD WAR II WEEKEND By A. Kevin Grantham The Mid-Atlantic Air Museum (MAAM) offered its annual graduate course in 1940s-era culture at Spaatz Field (Reading Regional Airport) in Reading, Pennsylvania, over the weekend of 1-3 […]
Movie “Memphis Belle” Flying-High, Again by Austin Hancock As most readers will know, the famous, combat-veteran Boeing B-17F Flying Fortress known as Memphis Belle (Serial 41-24485) is undergoing restoration to static-display status at the National Museum […]
By Austin Hancock Geneseo, NY – When the “Greatest Shot on Turf” concludes in mid-July, the excitement is just beginning for the crew at the National Warplane Museum. The WWII-themed airshow, held each year, is […]
The National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York has achieved a major coups in gaining the lease of the late David Tallichet’s Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress serial 44-83546. Known universally now as “The Movie” Memphis […]
by Tom Pawlesh The National Warplane Museum held its annual air show over the weekend of July 11th/12th at Geneseo in upstate New York. Weather for “The Greatest Show on Turf” was absolutely perfect: 85F and sunny each day. Geneseo is […]
A small fleet of C-47s gathered in Britain and France over the past few weeks to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings today on June 6th, 2014. The aircraft flew in from […]
For the 70th commemoration of the renowned D-day Invasion, which is to take place in June 2014,the Douglas C-47 ‘Whiskey 7 ‘ owned by National Warplane Museum in Geneseo,NY and featured every year at the […]
Tom Pawlesh Reports: “The Greatest Show on Turf” presented by the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group of the National Warplane Museum is just that, the greatest. One of my favorite shows of the season, the Geneseo […]
The National Warplane Museum of Geneseo, New York is planning to bring their Veteran Douglas C-47 Skytrain back to Normandy, France to mark the 70th anniversary of when this very plane dropped paratroopers on the […]
The National Warplane Museum is returning to Geneseo, New York. In a recent press conference the 1941 Historical Aircraft Group announced that it had reacquired the name of the National Warplane Museum. “Today is a […]
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