Upcoming Events

The Palm Springs Air Museum will be hosting our annual Props and Hops Craft Beer Festival featuring craft beers from all over the region, local musical acts, food vendors and flight exhibitions. This event grows in popularity every year and is quickly becoming the premier craft beer event in the valley. Visit our website for festival times and admission prices.

Cliff Henderson’s biography covers over eighty years of one man’s fascinating life. His contributions to aviation were phenomenal. As Managing Director for the National Air Races, Cliff created a ‘laboratory of the industry’ which provided an international platform for faster airplanes, more reliable motors, and safer transportation. But it didn’t stop there, in 1945; Cliff envisioned a city that would have the ‘smartest address in the American desert.’ Less than 20 years later, the city of Palm Desert had arrived.…

The special exhibit created by the National WWII Museum shows how ordinary Americans responded to Roosevelt's call to action, transforming the United States from an isolationist nation still reeling from the Great Depression into the world's greatest industrial power defined by ingenuity, effort, engagement, and opportunity. Wine and Light Hors d'oeuvres will be served by LULU of Palm Springs. Members $15, Non-Members $20, Please RSVP to 760-482-1836

War between Japan and the United States had been a possibility that each nation had been aware of, and planned for, since the 1920s. Over the next decades, Japan expanded into China and spent considerable effort trying to secure enough independent resources to attain victory. This program will cover the Japanese and American political and command structure in the days leading up to the Pearl Harbor Attack. We will look specifically at the role communication played in the success and…

Ho, Ho, Ho and Away we go…at 11AM each day Santa Claus will arrive at the Air Museum in his airplane to greet all the good little girls and boys who have come to see him. In addition to sitting for photographs and having a special gift for each child, Santa will open his winter fun land complete with snow directly from the North Pole. Presented by The Shalhoub Family

Marine Fighter Squadron 422 was a group of twenty-four typical young Americans trained to fly the famous F4U Corsair into combat with the legendary Japanese Zero. When they arrived in the Pacific, they suddenly found that not all their enemies carried guns. Their two most dangerous and merciless adversaries were the fury of a tropical typhoon and the heartless whims of a Marine Corps general. Learn about this forgotten Second World War tragedy, that should be remembered by all! Presenter:…