From our Museum Director: While researching a recent donation, happened across some great information and pictures of Orlan Corben. Before Piper, Cessna, Kitfox, and Vans, before AOPA, CAP, EAA, and the FAA, there was Ace. Two decades after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, flying had become a rich man’s luxury. […]
Continue reading
Zipline’s Sparrow on Display
The National Model Aviation Museum invites visitors to view an exciting new aircraft: the Sparrow, on loan from Zipline. The Sparrow, developed by Zipline in 2016, was initially operated in Rwanda. It is an autonomous aircraft that flies to remote medical clinics delivering life-saving blood, vaccines, and medications safely to […]
Continue reading
The History of the National Aeromodeling Championships
Am I the best? For those aeromodelers who ask themselves this question, competition is the key. Facing an opponent, and besting him or her is the only true way to know. The challenge, to see who the best is, started almost as soon as two people could fly a model […]
Continue readingAMA National Model Aviation Museum Is Open for the 2023 Summer Season
We are happy to announce the museum is now open for the summer! May 2023 Open Mondays thru Fridays10am – 4pmAlso open on Saturday, May 27(Closed May 29 for Memorial Day) June – August 2023Open Mondays thru Saturdays10am – 4pm(Closed June 19 for Juneteenth holiday and July 4 for Independence […]
Continue readingMuseum Accepts Two Models from Sig Manufacturing
On April 20 and 21, AMA Museum Director Michael Smith and Model Aviation Executive Editor Jay Smith traveled to Sig Manufacturing in Motezuma, Iowa, to pick up Maxey Hester’s P-63 King Cobra and Claude McCullough’s Skypirate. Both Maxey and Claude worked for Sig and were also famous Scale model competitors. […]
Continue reading
AMA National Model Aviation Museum Is Closed for the Season
The National Model Aviation Museum and store are now closed for the 2022 season. However, AMA members can continue to shop via the online store, purchase plans (members get 20% off through October 31, 2022) and view on-line museum resources such as virtual tours, historical archives, and more. “Thanks to […]
Continue reading
New Scale Exhibit Opens at National Model Aviation Museum
By Rachelle Haughn, rachelleh@modelaircraft.org If you visit the National Model Aviation Museum in Muncie, Indiana, this summer, you might notice something dramatically different about one exhibit area. The first change that you could see is the absence of the theater. In 2021, AMA employees demolished the theater area. In the […]
Continue readingNational Model Aviation Museum is now open
We are happy to announce that the museum is now open for the 2021 flying season. It will remain open through Sept 17, 2021. Operating hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday – Saturday. There are a few additional Saturdays on which it will be closed, as well as […]
Continue reading
Byron Originals radio control Pitts S-1A – Donated by Dave Herbert
In the mid-1970s Byron LeRoy Godbersen decided to take his interest in model aviation a step further and begin developing and selling large scale remote controlled models of civilian and military aircraft. In 1979, he founded Byron Originals and that same year the new company released its first kit, the […]
Continue readingMuseum volunteers are priceless
An often-repeated phrase in museums, as with so many organizations, is, “We couldn’t manage without our volunteers.” At the AMA’s National Model Aviation Museum this certainly is the case. For us, it begins at the top with the AMA Executive Council—all volunteers who oversee the museum. It is through the […]
Continue reading
Recent Comments