Exhibits (On Site)

Explores Earhart's record setting flights including her 1928 flight as a passenger across the Atlantic, her 1932 crossing of the Atlantic, her 1935 crossing of the Pacific, and the 1937 attempt to circumnavigate the globe, which ended in the disappearance of Amelia and her navigator Fred Noonan.

Visitors have enjoyed the Penny Nagy Youth Education Center (PNYEC) since it opened in 2019. The PNYEC is an Interactive learning experience for everyone at the museum.

Follow the live flight tracker, with aircraft flight status, from FlightAware. See the tracking map and real-time flight status of any commercial flight worldwide. Watch gene...

View items that belonged to Geraldyn “Jerrie” Cobb who was part of the Mercury 13. This was a group of women who in 1959 went through the same physiological tests as the Mercury Seven astronauts, although by a private organization proposing to send women to space. Items belonging to Jerrie's collection range from memorabilia from her early days as ...

She is best known for racing her airplane twice around the world in 1992 and 1994 to silver and gold medal victories. She also flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean twice in single engine planes. In the 1980s she ferried a Mooney and in 1990 she flew a 51 year-old Bonanza across the Atlantic to the start of a London-Sydney competition. Marion began f...

The Mercury 13 was thirteen American women who, as part of a privately funded program, underwent some of the same physiological screening tests as the astronauts who were tested on April 9, 1959 for Project Mercury. The name Mercury 13 was made in 1995 by producer James Cross as a comparison to the Mercury Seven name given to the selected male astr...

In 1929 the first all-female air race to place from August 18 – August 26. It was a transcontinental course, which started in Santa Monica, CA and ended at the Nation Air Races in Cleveland, OH. Most people refer to the race as the Powder Puff Derby. The name was coined by Will Rogers as he covered the race. The exhibit features photographs and bio...

This exhibit features an in depth look at the British ATA, the American WASP, and their roles in WW II aviation. The WASP was founded by Jackie Cochran and Nancy Harkness Love. Love first made the Women’s Auxiliary Ferry Squadron (WAFS) in 1942 and Cochran made the Women’s Flying Training Detachment (WFTD). In July 1943, the two were joined to make...

During World War II there was a shortage of male pilots to serve the war effort. Women employed by the United States Federal Civil Service formed a civilian women pilots' organization to allow men to serve in combat missions abroad. Known as the Women Auxiliary Service Pilots, or WASPs, these women trained and became pilots who tested and ferried a...