Air Mail – News From Wings of the North

The museum's P-51 D Mustang Sierra Sue II visited the Air National Guard's 133rd Airlift Wing at Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport last weekend to help celebrate the 70th Anniversary of the US Air Force. We were given the royal treatment by the entire crew at...

The museum has had a few special visitors over the last week. John Christgau visited with his family to see Sierra Sue II.  John is the brother of Sierra Sue's former longtime owner Roger Christgau.  John even wrote a book about the history of Sierra Sue II....

Dear Volunteers, I wanted to express my sincere appreciation to all our volunteers for a job well done! Over the weekend I was able to make numerous observations that lead me to believe the future of Wings of the North is bright and promising. As you may know, most of...

Long time friend of Wings of the North  - Vlado Lenoch was lost along with his passenger Bethany Root in P-51D Mustang "Baby Duck" yesterday in a crash in Kansas.  Our condolences to both families in this terrible tragedy.  We most recently saw Vlado...

It has been a long wait, but the F4U-4 Corsair has finally arrived at the museum.  The plan is to fly it AirExpo on Saturday and Sunday.  Come out and see!  Thanks to Jeremy Dando for the photo.

The museum welcomed some special guests on a tour this week.  Members of the Retired Northwest Pilots Association (http://www.rnpa.org/) came together and got a special tour of the museum arranged through the Northwest Airlines History Center...

Our long awaited sign is now finally in place on the side of the museum building.  It was worth the wait!

To celebrate the 90th anniversary of Charles Lindbergh’s historic 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean the first 25 children ages 8 to 15 visiting the museum on Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21, will receive a free wooden model kit of the Spirit of St....

It was a glorious morning at Flying Cloud Airport for the annual pancake breakfast.  Besides the record crowd, there was plenty of flying by a T-34, two T-6's, and P-51 Mustang Sierra Sue II. In addition, the 2017 Dubay Scholarship was presented to Larissa...

The Bush Stearman and the TBM Avenger returned to the museum yesterday from AirCorps Aviation after annual inspections, maintenance, and some upgrades.  Most notably, the Stearman now sports an electrical system and radio.  Both are carefully hidden to not...

The museum has  been given four Bryan Moon prints to display in the Wings of the North Aviation Art Gallery at the museum. Three are about the World War II raid on the Ploesti, Romania oil refineries.  The fourth is a North American B-25 Mitchell...

After an evening of work, the Spirit of St. Louis is now on display in the museum hangar.  Be sure to come and check it out on the ground before we hoist it up to hang from the ceiling.

The Spirit of St. Louis model has arrived at the Wings of the North Air Museum. This model, built as a stage prop by Warner Brothers Studios for the movie starring Jimmy Stewart in the '50's, used to hang in the south end of the ticketing area of Terminal 1 at MSP and...