A Turbax Ducted Fan Unit has been on the museum’s wish list for a few years. Geoff Sanders recently saw the list and donated a Turbax III ducted fan unit that previously belonged to late modeler Charlie Chambers. Thanks, Geoff, for helping to grow the museum’s collection! ————————————————————————— For more […]
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New Addition: RC Berkeley Bootstraps
John A. Cianciolo didn’t start building this RC Berkeley Bootstraps, but he did finish building it. That’s because he received it as a partially-completed kit from a guy who lived near the old Kansas City flying field. John had every reason to thank the gentleman for the gift, because John, […]
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New Addition: Restored Bleriot XI
Wings ripped and drooping, this Bleriot XI, probably built from an Ideal kit in the mid-1920s, was pulled out of someone’s attic and put on the auction block in the mid-1990s. There the wife of John J. Phillips saw it, purchased it, and brought it home to her husband as […]
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New Addition: 1996 Celebration of Eagles Place mat
Collecting signatures was a popular part of the AMA’s 1996 Celebration of Eagles Event. Almost all of the participants signed the main Celebration of Eagles banner and several people encouraged others to sign their t-shirts (the banner and examples of the t-shirts are already in the museum’s collection). Even the […]
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New Addition: Heli-Baby RC Helicopter
Schluter’s Heli-Baby was one of the first RC helicopter kits on the market. This particular Heli-Baby, which is complete and partially assembled, was purchased in the mid-1960s by Arthur R. Pelous. Arthur managed to overcome the instructions (written in German) and got the model fully assembled, but he never quite […]
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New Addition: Cleveland Kits
Fred E. Pachasa, brother of Ed Packard, was an active part of Cleveland Model Company in the early years. Fred had kept a small collection of kits, plans, and other items related to the Cleveland company and passed these items onto his son. Several of these items were recently donated […]
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Cliff Riedel’s Stinson Tri-Motor Reunion
For about three years in the late 1960s friends Cliff Riedel and Chet Lanzo worked on building a Stinson Tri-Motor RC model. The completed model was shown at Toledo for several years before being donated to the National Model Aviation Museum in 1986. Last Friday, Cliff Riedel reunited with the […]
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New Addition: Ducted Fan Units
We recently told you about several hand made rotors for ducted fan units built by Lt. Col. Wallace “Mike” Kulczyk. Now we are pleased to say that the museum’s collection has five full ducted fan units donated In Memory of Lt. Col. Wallace “Mike” Kulczyk by his children. All of […]
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New Addition: McCoy 60 engine
This McCoy 60 Red head with an anodized black body was donated by Theodore “Ted” Kraver. Thank you, Ted, for helping to grow the museum’s collection!
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Jose A. Santiago, Sr. is restoring an old Sportster model to see if he can get it flying again. He removed the original radio components from the model and donated the system, a Futaba FP-T4FN to the museum. The system operates on Channel 56. Thanks, Jose, for helping to grow […]
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