Welcome back the T-34 Mentor owners for Day 2! They will fly in formation during the day and we expect they will depart the museum around 3 pm. Included with regular museum admission. Remember kids 12 and under free with paid adult.
Every Saturday from 10 am to 12 noon, visitors have the opportunity to sit in the cockpit of a vintage Warbird inside the hangar. Included with museum admission, Kids 12 and under free with paid adult admission. Some physical restrictions apply. Volunteer docents give the history of the aircraft. $5 donation for souvenir photo. Loose […]
The Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft program was developed in the late 1970s in response to NASA’s need to transport the Space Shuttle orbiter between landing sites in California and New Mexico and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Boeing was selected to modify two existing B747-100 passenger jets to serve as carriers for the […]
On December 17, 1944 the Green Bay Packers won the NFL Championship. As America was glued to the radio to escape the news of the war, the game was interrupted by the shocking news the Germans had started a winter offensive we know today as the “Battle of the Bulge.” No professional league in America […]
The Palm Springs Air Museum is closed during the day, as we prep for our Annual Gala on Saturday evening, February 8th. The Air Museum will return to regular hours on Sunday, February 9th. Admission
Save the date for this very important event honoring Voices of Valor - Commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Ending of World War II. For more info, click here: https://palmspringsairmuseum.org/gala/
The famous photo of the Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi has made Iwo Jima one of World War II’s most iconic battle sites. More than 30,000 Marines and 350 American ships participated in this bloody five-week battle against over 22,000 Japanese soldiers encased in a well-fortified network of caves and tunnels. Learn […]
Hear the true story of the group of fore-sighted, concerned, and dedicated individuals who came together in the mid 1930’s in the Chicago area to form an organization that actively pursued and set the stage for the participation of African Americans in the fields of aviation and aeronautics. These prescient men included Chauncey E. Spencer, […]
Canada participated in many ways during WWII, more than people realize. Canadian forces landed on Juno beach on D-day and played a large part in the Battle of the Atlantic. By the end of the war, Canada had the 4th largest allied air force in the world. The Canadian military has fought alongside the United […]
The clash and subsequent sinking of two behemoth ships, the HMS Hood and the German battleship Bismarck, in May 1941 had decisive consequences for the future of naval warfare in World War II. At the Battle of the Denmark Strait on May 24, 1941, gunfire from the Bismarck rapidly sunk the HMS Hood, long the […]
