Madras, Oregon, is home to a remarkable airport-one without fences or gates-where one of the largest and most active private aircraft collections in the United States resides: the Erickson Aircraft ...

Die-cast airplane models are highly detailed and accurate metal replicas of real aircraft, popular among aviation enthusiasts for their historical significance and craftsmanship. The hobby fosters a ...

Jack Erickson is an aviation icon. The founder of Erickson Aviation transformed the Sikorsky S-64 Skycrane into the Erickson Aircrane, a huge heavy-lift helicopter that has become a heralded platform ...

Looking to expand its activities for aviation enthusiasts, Snohomish County is offering another historic airplane group hangar space at Paine Field. Possibly joining Paul Allen’s Flying Heritage ...

EL RENO, Okla. (KFOR) — If you ask airplane collector Tony Caldwell, the era between the World Wars, the 1920s to the early 1940s, is the best for aviation history. He argued, “I think this era has ...

Eugene Kettering, a philanthropist and co-founder of the Air Force Museum (now the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force), donated his extensive collection of 624 delicate, scratch-built model ...

Visit an airplane model factory in Southern China where die-cast models are meticulously crafted. The staff demonstrate key ...

Click to open image viewer. [NASM-9A16192] Ray Stits posed beside his Stits SA-2 Sky Baby (r/n N5K). CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. This collection consists of 20.6 cubic feet ...

SHANNON, Ireland (Reuters) - When Irishman Michael Kelly was a boy, he loved nothing more than gazing at planes taking off and landing at his nearest airport. Now 67, after more than half a century ...

When the USS Midway was a working aircraft carrier, it sometimes got visited by planes like the C-2A Greyhound ferrying people and supplies out to sea, and then back to land. Now the Midway, a popular ...