The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington recently prepared their rare Fiat G-91 PAN for transfer to a new home in Italy. Museum personnel supervised the move, helping load the disassembled airframe inside a shipping container […]
PRESS RELEASE – Complementing the Museum’s exhibition done in partnership with the Smithsonian, Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission, showing now through Sept. 2, the To the Moon! program series presents the stories behind the artifacts, […]
As many of our readers will know, the historic crew capsule which topped the Apollo 11 rocket for Neil Armstrong, Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin and Michael Collins’ epic July 1969 journey to the moon has been on […]
On Dec. 9 the Museum hosts a lecture and book signing with the remarkable Scott Parazynski, the only person to have flown in space and summited Mt. Everest. The astronaut, explorer, physician, inventor and now […]
World War I aviation is brought to life in a new exhibit featuring the paintings of Seattle artist Jim Dietz. The show, Wood and Canvas: The WWI Aviation Art of Jim Dietz, developed by Wings […]
On July 8, The Museum hosts Seattle’s premiere of a new documentary about one of the most sensational women pilots of the 1930s. “Aviatrix: The Katherine Sui Fun Cheung Story” tells the story of the […]
The Smithsonian Institution announced at a ceremony today that the Apollo 11 command module Columbia–the only portion of the historic spacecraft to complete the first mission to land a man on the moon and safely […]
On Dec. 3 the Museum presents “Words on Wings,” a literary event with four Pacific Northwest aviation-themed writers. The authors will give individual presentations on the hour from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Their subjects […]
On Oct. 14 the Museum hosts “Spaceman: An Evening with Astronaut Mike Massimino,” a reception, lecture and book signing with the engaging spacewalker who refurbished the Hubble Space Telescope during two shuttle flights, including the […]
The National Naval Aviation Museum has granted The Museum of Flight the permanent loan of a McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C retired this year from the Blue Angels flight demonstration team. Distinguished as “Number 2” in the […]
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