The Caldwell Collection, which opened to the public Oct. 4, 2025, totals more than 20 classic aircraft, housed in a restored 1943 World War II hangar at El Reno Regional Airport in Oklahoma.
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International Air & Space Hall of Fame names Class of 2025
The Goodyear blimp, Grumman Cats, and two of general aviation’s staunchest advocates are part of the Class of 2025.
A hobby that got out of control
The Creve Coeur Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum in suburban St. Louis, Missouri, offers visitors an exciting window into what is often called the Golden Age of Aviation from 1920 to 1941.
A-10 Warthog welcomed home
Fairchild-Republic A-10C, tail number 79-0087, made its return to Hagerstown, Maryland, Sept. 22, 2025, where it joins the largest collection of Fairchild aircraft anywhere in the world at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum.
New Global War on Terror wing opens at Warhawk Air Museum
The new wing is a clear acknowledgement that history does not belong to a receding past alone, but is as current as those who served, and continue to serve, the armed forces of the United States in its efforts to counter terrorist activity.
National Air and Space Museum expanding Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
This is the first major change to the center’s public areas since its opening in 2003, according to museum officials.
Radical Japanese fighter overcome by events
The Kyushu Shinden first tested its wings on Aug. 3, 1945. Two more quick test sorties, said to have been made on Aug. 6 and 9, the dates when atomic bombs exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were the last flights for the Shinden. Six days later Japan surrendered, ending the war and the need for the Shinden.
Warthog flies home to KHGR
A Fairchild A-10 Thunderbolt II “Warthog” is flying home Sept. 22, 2025, to Hagerstown, Maryland — the birthplace of the USAF attack aircraft — where it will become part of the collection at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum.
New Flying Tigers documentary premieres at Museum of Flight
On Sept. 13, 2025, the Museum of Flight in Seattle presents the premiere screening of a new documentary about the Flying Tigers, the American Volunteer Group in China during World War II.