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This rendering by architecture firm McMillan Pazdan Smith shows the concept for the new building that will house the Hickory Aviation Museum and Catawba Valley Community College Workforce Innovation Center.

Hickory Aviation Museum to Begin Fundraising Campaign For New Building

September 30, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

As reported by the Hickory Daily Record, on Wednesday, September 28th, the Hickory Aviation Museum will kick off its fundraising campaign for a building to house the museum’s aircraft at an event Wednesday at the […]

Thom Richard’s American Dream Skyranch – Adventures on The Wing!

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

Thom Richard’s passion for WWII aviation is well known in the American warbird community, whether from within the high octane environment of Unlimited Air Racing in Reno, Nevada where he piloted the much-modified, Rolls-Royce Griffon-powered […]

McDonnell F 101A 1 MC Voodoo 53 2418 parked on Rogers Dry Lake Edwards Air Force Base California. U.S. Air Force 1

Today in Aviation History: First Flight of The F-101 Voodoo

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Bryan R. Swopes of This Day in Aviation On September 29, 1954, at Edwards Air Force Base in the high desert of southern California, McDonnell Aircraft Corporation test pilot Robert C. Little made the […]

WWII veteran gunner Dick Miralles relives his wartime flying in a restored SBD Dauntless

WWII Veteran Takes to The Air in SBD Dive Bomber 80 Years Later

September 29, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE PEACHTREE CITY, GA (Sept. 28, 2022) – WWII Veteran Dick Miralles slid into the gunner’s seat of the SBD Dauntless Dive Bomber almost as easily as he did 80 years ago in the […]

WACO Fly-in 2022

September 27, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Andy Heins and Tom Pawlesh Just as the swallows return to San Juan Capistrano in California each March, the airplanes built by the Waco Aircraft Company return to Troy, Ohio each September. However, before […]

Midwest Antique Airplane Club Grassroots Fly-In

September 25, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

by Andy Heins According to the Oxford Dictionary, “Grassroots” /ˈɡrasˌro͞ots/ plural is defined as “the most basic level of an activity or organization: “the whole campaign would be conducted at the grassroots.” Such a definition applies perfectly […]