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The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, New Exhibit Opening at The Museum of Flight

June 26, 2022 Moreno Aguiari 0

The Museum of Flight has announced the opening of a new traveling exhibition, The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, a retrospective of The Walt Disney Studios’ extensive contributions to the Allies’ World War […]

Frecce Tricolori Veteran Fiat G.91 PAN Returns to Italy

November 24, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

The Museum of Flight’s July Programs Celebrating the Apollo 11 Moon Landing

July 3, 2019 Moreno Aguiari 0

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, […]

Museum of Flight’s Plans for Apollo 11 Space Capsule Columbia

December 13, 2018 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

Astronaut/Mountaineer Scott Parazynski to Speak at The Museum of Flight

November 28, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

Museum Of Flight Opens Exhibit Depicting World War I Aviation

September 12, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

Katherine Sui Fun Cheung photo courtesy of Ed Moy.

New Documentary of Aviation Pioneer Makes Seattle Premiere July 8

June 22, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

Smithsonian Selects The Museum of Flight to Exhibit Apollo 11

February 24, 2017 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

Lecture and Book Signings with Northwest Aviation Authors Dec. 3

Lecture and Book Signings at The Museum of Flight

December 1, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

Museum Hosts An Evening with Astronaut Mike Massimino

September 29, 2016 Moreno Aguiari 0

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 […]

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