Fred Johnsen, the force behind the Airailimages YouTube channel and General Aviation News Of Wings & Things columnist, recently posted a video chronicling the last flight, and arrival, of an Idaho Air National Guard (ANG) 124th Fighter Wing A-10 Thunderbolt II at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho.
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Own a piece of a Goodyear blimp
Along with its donation to the EAA Museum of a blimp gondola, Goodyear is selling keepsake items from its Spirit of Goodyear blimp, with some of the proceeds going to the museum.
Picture of the Day: Southern Cross
Scott Piercy submitted this photo and note: “Commemorating D-Day 2025 at the Silent Wings Museum at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport (KLBB) in Texas.”
Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum names first CEO
The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Hawaii has hired John P. Hiltz as its inaugural Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
Rare B-24 to move to Mighty Eighth museum
The aircraft is one of only three B-24s in the Air Force’s historical collection.
Museum awards $276,000 in scholarships
Some of the scholarships are for high school seniors planning to attend a college, university, or trade school, while others are for flight training, according to museum officials.
Warhawk Air Museum’s Memorial Day Fly-Over draws thousands
Each Memorial Day for about 15 years, an historic flight with the Warhawk Air Museum’s three flying warbirds flies along a circuitous route that highlights the Veterans’ Cemetery, Veterans Memorial Park, other parks, hospitals, and other sites in the Boise, Idaho, Treasure Valley.
EAA’s One Week Wonder added to collection at National Air and Space Museum
“This airplane will impress visitors with the innovation and technology that is everywhere in the homebuilding movement and recreational aviation,” said Russell Lee, curator of homebuilt aircraft at the National Air and Space Museum. “Although one of the smallest airplanes displayed at the Udvar-Hazy Center, its power to excite visitors about the freedom of flight equals the largest aircraft displayed here.”
Historic Utah airfield honors pilot
The base museum’s newest exhibit, “Decker Field: The Untold Story,” chronicles the efforts of a then Utah pilot, Douglas Decker, to transform the former Air Force base into a civilian use airport.