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Palm Springs Air Museum Completes Boeing Skyfox Restoration

May 27, 2024 Adam Estes 8

By Adam Estes From the early days of aviation, the desert skies above southern California have seen a great multitude of unique and boundary-pushing aircraft, but at the Palm Springs Air Museum (PSAM), one of […]

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Top Gun: Maverick’s Darkstar Arrives at Palm Springs Air Museum

February 13, 2024 Adam Estes 0

By Adam Estes As millions of moviegoers around the world sat for the opening of Top Gun: Maverick, we here at Vintage Aviation News were at the edge of our seats when Captain Pete Mitchell […]

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Movie Memphis Belle Maintenance Update

November 26, 2023 Adam Estes 1

By Adam Estes Of all the aircraft of WWII, few have had quite the cultural impact as the B-17, known in history as the “Memphis Belle.” This veteran of the 91st Bomb Group, 8th Air […]

Snoopy and the Red Baron Visiting The Palm Springs Air Museum

February 13, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 0

Between February 11th and May 7th, the Palm Springs Air Museum will host the Snoopy and the Red Baron Traveling Exhibit. Charles Schulz introduced Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace in 1965, and […]

Navy Retires ‘Prowler’ at Palm Springs Air Museum

December 2, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 1

PRESS RELEASE – PALM SPRINGS, Calif. – As the sound of two Pratt and Whitney jet engines echoed through the San Jacinto Mountain Range, one of the last four Navy EA-6B ‘Prowler’ fixed-wing aircraft still […]

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Upcoming Spitfire Open Cockpit Day at Palm Springs Air Museum

August 28, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Saturday, Aug 30- From 1 – 3 PM, Aviation enthusiast will have the opportunity to sit behind the controls of the Supermarine Spitfire as the Palm Springs Air Museum hosts its traditional “Open Cockpit” event. […]

P-40 Warhawk & Tuskegee Airman Rusty Burns

August 8, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Saturday, Aug 9- From 1 – 3 PM, Aviation enthusiast will have the opportunity to sit behind the controls of the P-40 Warhawk as the Palm Springs Air Museum hosts its traditional “Open Cockpit” event. […]

MiG 21 Open Cockpit & Disney’s PLANES: Fire & Rescue at PSAM

July 18, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

Saturday, Jun 19- From 1 – 3 PM, Aviation enthusiast will have the opportunity to sit behind the controls of the Mig-21 as the Palm Springs Air Museum hosts its traditional “Open Cockpit” event.The Palm […]

World’s Only Flying Privateer Navy Patrol Bomber will Visit the Palm Springs Air Museum

March 16, 2014 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 6

From Monday March 17th until Sunday March 23rd, the world’s only flying PB4Y-2 Privateer naval patrol bomber will visit the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs, California. The Privateer landed today just after 11:00 […]

Helicopter Warfare Plus UH-1 Huey Gunship Flight Exhibition At The Palm Springs Air Museum

January 17, 2014 Moreno Aguiari 0

SATURDAY JANUARY 18 at 1 PM at the Palm Springs Air Museum the H.N. and Frances C. Berger Foundation and the Houston Family Foundation present Army Aviation: Helicopter Warfare from Vietnam to Today presented by […]

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