SEATTLE — The Museum of Flight opened its new $2.5 million Alaska Airlines Aerospace Education Center, May 7. The 5 to 9 p.m. event coincided with the Museum’s Space Day celebration and Free First Thursday. The Center is open every day and staffed with an education professional to provide guidance about museum educational programs, as well as science, […]
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Work begins on Museum of Flight’s new Aviation Pavilion
SEATTLE — Construction began Monday, April 6, on The Museum of Flight’s Aviation Pavilion — a structure that will cover more than 20 commercial and military airplanes once completed. Aircraft that will be moved to the Aviation Pavilion upon its completion include the museum’s recently restored Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet, the 787 Dreamliner, Air Force One, the Concorde […]
World War I aviation experts featured at museum symposium
SEATTLE — On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of World War I, a one-day symposium at The Museum of Flight on Saturday, July 26, brings together the leading experts on World War I aviation to show how recent investigations are revealing surprising new information. Speakers include Javier Arango, who uses his […]
Alaska Airlines gives $2.5 million to build Aerospace Education Center at museum
SEATTLE — Alaska Airlines is making a $2.5 million gift to The Museum of Flight to create the Alaska Airlines Aerospace Education Center. Funds will be used to renovate existing facilities, support and sustain educational programs, increase staff, expand outreach to underrepresented communities, and enhance financial assistance. The Alaska Airlines Aerospace Education Center, to be […]
Three bands to rock Museum of Flight
SEATTLE — The Museum of Flight Speed of Sound concert series continues Jan. 31 with a three-band lineup of Northwest artists — Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands, Star Anna, and Day Laborers & Petty Intellectuals. Pickerel was the drummer for the seminal grunge favorite, The Screaming Trees, and has played on albums by Mark […]
Santa to visit Museum of Flight
SEATTLE — “Santa’s Landing Party” at The Museum of Flight begins Saturday morning, Dec. 14, with a children’s concert and the fly-in arrival of Santa Claus. At 10:30 a.m. in the museum, legendary Seattle musician Caspar Babypants (a.k.a. Chris Ballew from the band Presidents of the United States of America), will perform a 45-minute concert […]
Amelia Earhart Exhibit opens Oct. 12
SEATTLE — “In Search of Amelia Earhart,” a temporary exhibit honoring the life of the famous pilot, opens Oct. 12 at the Museum of Flight with the installation of a 1935 Lockheed Electra airliner, the same type as Amelia Earhart’s famous aircraft. The Museum’s Electra is one of only two in existence, and the only […]
Museum secures funding for Lockheed Electra
SEATTLE — A 1935 vintage Lockheed Model 10-E Electra transport aircraft identical to the one used by Amelia Earhart on her ill-fated trip around the world in 1937 will be the centerpiece of a permanent Earhart exhibit opening at the Museum of Flight Oct. 12. Project Amelia, a fundraising campaign conducted by Museum of Flight […]
Front page news
LINDBERGH DOES IT! TO PARIS IN 33-1/3 HOURS cried out the newspaper headlines on May 22, 1927. Lindbergh’s epic flight made front page headlines in papers all around the world. We are all aware of the impact Lindbergh’s New York-to-Paris ?ight had on the public, but what other aviation events of the 1920s and 1930s […]