Blood Drive at the Palm Springs Air Museum. Appointments can be made by calling (800)879-4484 or by visiting http://www.lstream.org. Walk-ins are welcome. Blood Donors receive free admission to the Palm Springs Air Museum.
Schedule: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM each Saturday 1/7: F-104 Starfighter 1/14: Spitfire MK XIV 1/21: P-40 Warhawk 1/28: F4U Corsair Museum guests are treated to the extra special experience of being allowed to sit at the controls and pose for pictures. From 10:30-12:30 each Saturday, a selected aircraft will be opened up and made […]
The silhouette of this aircraft is synonymous with the war in Vietnam and the unmistakable noise made by its main rotor blades is a glorious sound to anyone who served during that conflict. The Bell UH-1 Iroquois (nicknamed the "Huey") is a utility military helicopter designed and produced by the American aerospace company Bell Helicopter. […]
Schedule: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM each Saturday 1/14: F-104 Starfighter 1/21: P-40 Warhawk 1/28: F4U Corsair Museum guests are treated to the extra special experience of being allowed to sit at the controls and pose for pictures. From 10:30-12:30 each Saturday, a selected aircraft will be opened up and made accessible to the public. […]
Presenter Bruce Cowee joined the Air Force ROTC in 1962 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant after graduating college in 1966. Following flight school he was sent to Cam Ranh Bay Air Base in Vietnam, in May 1968. Bruce was assigned to the 458th tactical airlift squadron flying the C7A. He flew close to 900 […]
Schedule: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM each Saturday 1/21: P-40 Warhawk 1/28: F4U Corsair Museum guests are treated to the extra special experience of being allowed to sit at the controls and pose for pictures. From 10:30-12:30 each Saturday, a selected aircraft will be opened up and made accessible to the public. Museum Volunteers will […]
On June 22, 1941, Adolf Hitler unleashed an army of 3 million for a blitzkrieg conquest of the Soviet Union. He should have had second thoughts since Napoleon had begun his disastrous invasion of Russia 120 years earlier on that very day! During the Second World War over 10 million Germans and Russians would fight […]
Built as a replacement for the training planes of WWII, the T-34 Mentor developed into an aircraft cherished by the military and civilian pilots alike. In fact the T-34 remains in service more than six decades after it was first designed. Come visit us as a group of T-34 pilots drop into the Air Museum […]
Schedule: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM each Saturday 1/28: F7F Tigercat Museum guests are treated to the extra special experience of being allowed to sit at the controls and pose for pictures. From 10:30-12:30 each Saturday, a selected aircraft will be opened up and made accessible to the public. Museum Volunteers will also be on […]
Schedule: 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM each Saturday 2/4: F4F Wildcat 2/11: F-104 Starfighter 2/18: Closed For Gala 2/25: P-40 Warhawk Museum guests are treated to the extra special experience of being allowed to sit at the controls and pose for pictures. From 10:30-12:30 each Saturday, a selected aircraft will be opened up and made […]
This program on the Tuskegee Airmen will be presented by the United States' pre-eminent aviation artist, Stan Stokes. Stokes interviewed and painted dozens of Tuskegee Airmen for the Tuskegee Mural at the Palm Springs Air Museum, originally commissioned by The Tuskegee Airmen Foundation. Stokes will share personal stories of the Tuskegee Airmen. Presenter: Stan […]
The film is an unforgettable conversation among a diverse group of African American “Rosie the Riveters” who recount what life was really like during World War II. They are hard working underdogs of high character who do battle and win. They fled lives as domestics and sharecroppers to empower themselves while working in war production […]
