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    Celebrate Veterans Day at Yanks Air Museum November 11, 2026

    VETERANS DAY – Free Admission to Veterans at Yanks Air Museum

    Featured Wednesday, November 11 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
    Yanks Air Museum 15121 Stearman Drive, Chino, United States

    For one day, we stand united in respect to veterans on November 11, 2026...

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    Featured Saturday, March 27, 2027 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
    Yanks Air Museum 15121 Stearman Drive, Chino, United States

    A Morning to Honor Vietnam Veterans on March 27, 2027 FREE Admission to Vietnam...

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    Skytrain Event Open Cockpit June 5, 2027

    2027 Skytrain Event – Open Cockpit at Yanks Air Museum

    Featured Saturday, June 5, 2027 @ 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
    Yanks Air Museum 15121 Stearman Drive, Chino, United States

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📅 On This Day in Aviation History — September 5, 1 📅 On This Day in Aviation History — September 5, 1984

On this day in 1984, a new chapter in American spaceflight touched down on a California dry lakebed.

At 6:37 a.m. PDT, Space Shuttle Discovery landed at Edwards Air Force Base, successfully completing STS-41D—its very first mission into space.

Over six days, Discovery and its six-person crew circled Earth 97 times and traveled approximately 2.5 million miles. Along the way, they deployed three communications satellites and put an unusual piece of technology through its paces: a lightweight experimental solar array that unfurled to more than 100 feet in length from a remarkably compact container in the Shuttle's payload bay. The experiment tested lightweight, deployable solar-array technology envisioned for powering large future structures in orbit.

The mission also carried another piece of aviation and space history. Charles D. Walker became the first commercial payload specialist to fly aboard the Shuttle, operating a McDonnell Douglas biotechnology experiment during the mission.

And if some of STS-41D looks unusually cinematic in archival footage, there's a reason for that. The crew carried an IMAX camera into orbit and filmed satellite deployments, experiments, and life aboard Discovery. Some of that footage later appeared on enormous theater screens in the 1985 IMAX film The Dream Is Alive.

After six days, Commander Henry 'Hank' Hartsfield Jr. brought Discovery down on Runway 17 at Edwards, bringing Discovery's maiden voyage to a successful conclusion.

It turned out to be just the beginning.

Discovery ultimately completed 39 missions, more than any other Space Shuttle. During that remarkable career, it would deploy the Hubble Space Telescope, carry John Glenn back into orbit, and fly both of NASA's "Return to Flight" missions following the Challenger and Columbia tragedies.

But all 39 missions started with STS-41D—and on September 5, 1984, Discovery proved for the first time that it could make the journey to orbit and safely come home again. 🚀

Aviation Trivia: Discovery was NASA's third space-qualified orbiter to join the Shuttle fleet. Can you name the two orbiters that flew before it?
Someone took a trip to the groomer last weekend… C Someone took a trip to the groomer last weekend… Come see if our museum cat will let you pet his new coat! 😻
Wow! We're so proud to have one of our doggy jacke Wow! We're so proud to have one of our doggy jackets put to good use! 

We just got news from one of our fans that she had ordered a bomber jacket from us for her dog about a month ago in preparation for a huge fundraising event at her local dog shelter. Walter, the good-boy himself, and his owner, won the People’s Choice Award that evening for their “Top Gun, Maverick and Goose" theme. Overall, the event raised over $900,000 for the Humane Society of Elkhart County. 

Give it up for Walter! 🎉 

Wait... does this make Geebs Iceman?
We can't quite say "On This Day in History" since We can't quite say "On This Day in History" since the date has been in question for a long time, but definitely during this month...

Blanche "Betty" Stuart Scott, a notable pioneering female aviator for many reasons, was considered by many to be the first American female pilot to complete a solo flight, somewhere between September 2nd and September 12th, 1910 (Some average this out to September 6th, but we like to give her the earliest date possible). 

Still, Bessica Medlar Raiche's September 16th flight is given the official credit for first solo flight by an American woman (which we'll talk about later this month). Why? While studying at the first flying school in America, under Glenn Curtiss, she was merely practicing taxiing, when either the limiter on her throttle moved or a strong gust of wind came along and lifted her into the air! It was a short, possibly accidental, flight, 40 ft in the air, but she completed it safely. 

Just in case you also think a lucky gust of wind doesn't count, do remember all the other major accomplishments Scott received throughout her life, fair and square, contributing heavily to pioneering the way for women in aviation during a time they were even more underestimated than today: 

✅ Second woman to complete a cross-country drive in an automobile, first to do so from NY to CA, making all necessary repairs herself en route: May 16 to July 23, 1910. This was such a huge piece of news at the time, that it brought her to Curtiss's attention, influencing him to offer her flying lessons. 
✅ The only woman to receive flying lessons directly from Glenn Curtiss
✅ Set a long-distance flying record for women of 10 miles on July 30, 1911 right before extending it to a 25-mile record later in August of that same year
✅ First female test pilot
✅ First American woman to fly "long distance" (60 miles non-stop)
✅ Earned her reputation as an accomplished stunt pilot by flying upside down and performing "death dives" (diving from an altitude of 4000 feet and suddenly pulling up only 200 feet from the ground)

She's also considered the first American woman to fly as a passenger in a jet. Can anyone name the jet, the pilot, or guess the year?
This time, we cropped out the vertical stabilizer This time, we cropped out the vertical stabilizer since that keeps giving half of these away. 🤣 

How would you identify this aircraft?
We did the blow down bottle test last week and fin We did the blow down bottle test last week and finalized the emergency landing gear system. Step by step, we’re getting there!

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