Upcoming Events

Annual craft beer festival with flight exhibitions, special beer tasting flights, rides for sale, live music and food vendors including In 'N Out Burger. This event grows in popularity every year and is quickly becoming the premier craft beer event in the valley. Visit pspropshops.com for more details. .

Starting with the Japanese planes that participated in the Pearl Harbor attack, and capping off with US Bombers that ended the war, this program will cover all of the Air Museum's WWII aircraft plus some key others. This is a short story of how each of the aircraft was used and its effectiveness in WWII action.

World War II remains one of the most galvanizing and defining events in the history of America. Seemingly overnight, the entire nation unified behind a singular cause. An entire generation’s identity was forged, in part, by what many still refer to as the “last good war.” Sixty years later, a young photographer named Thomas Sanders began traveling the country photographing and interviewing hundreds of World War II veterans. The more he shot, the more he listened, and the more captivated…

This presentation will cover the aerial attack on the battleship USS ARIZONA. It will include a discussion of the official after action reports, video footage of the attack on the ship, and government diagrams of the aerial attack. We’ll see evidence of the bombs that hit Arizona. We’ll also cover the action reports that state that Arizona was also struck by torpedoes and that the bomb that blew up the ship went down the smokestack. As we now know, these…

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. Kids 12 and under get in free with paying adult. Santa and Mrs. Claus arriving…

The American 345th Bomb Group--the Air Apaches--was legendary in the war against Japan. The first fully trained and fully equipped group sent to the South Pacific, the 345th racked up a devastating score against the enemy. Armed to the teeth with machine guns and fragmentation bombs, and flying their B-25s at impossibly low altitudes --often below fifty feet--the pilots and air crews strafed and bombed enemy installations and shipping with a fury that helped cripple Japan. To tell their remarkable…

The United States intelligence community is failing to keep up with domestic and international challenges due to the changing effect globalization has had on the international community. This presentation will delve into role globalization has played on the intelligence community and the effectiveness of the intelligence community’s response to these changes. It will discuss the policy apparatus contentious history and how that has affected the congressional oversight process. Lastly we will look at the issues the public have with the…

Born in the County of Norfolk England in 1928, Mick Dawson left Litcham Secondary Modern School at the age of 14, December 1942. A wartime airfield for the American Army Air Force was under construction nearby and Mick got a job with the electrical contractor there as an apprentice. The 392nd BG group with their B-24s occupied the base from August 1943 to end of the War in Europe. During that time Mick had a front row seat to life…