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  • October 2026

  • Sat 24
    Halloween Hangar Trick or Treat event at Yanks Air Museum

    HAUNTED HANGAR TRICK OR TREAT at YANKS!

    Featured Saturday, October 24 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
    Yanks Air Museum 15121 Stearman Drive, Chino, United States

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    VETERANS DAY – Free Admission to Veterans

    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. FREE Admission to Veterans...

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

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Did you know the P-40 Warhawk was the first mass-p Did you know the P-40 Warhawk was the first mass-produced US fighter? It had a unit cost of just $57,000 in 1941. That’s the equivalent in purchasing power to about $1.2 million today, which is a bargain considering what frontline fighter aircraft cost today. Can you guess how many P-40s were produced during WWII? We acquired this P-40E-1 in 1975 and restored it to airworthy status in 2018.

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The heart of the Bell P-39 Airacobra is coming to The heart of the Bell P-39 Airacobra is coming to life. Our Allison V-1710 engine display is coming together piece by piece, giving visitors a closer look at the unique powerplant that defined this iconic aircraft.
From its distinctive layout to the engineering that set it apart, this display helps tell the story of innovation, adaptation, and performance. Stay tuned as we continue building out this incredible exhibit.

#P39 #Airacobra #Warbird #AviationHistory #AircraftEngine
Transform your next event into something unforgett Transform your next event into something unforgettable at Yanks Air Museum.
This 500 person fundraising gala showcases what makes our venue unlike anything else — a massive hangar, historic aircraft, and a setting your guests will be talking about long after the night ends.

Whether you’re hosting a corporate event, gala, fundraiser, or private celebration, our space delivers scale, atmosphere, and built-in wow factor you simply can’t replicate in a ballroom.

From intimate gatherings to 1000+ guest experiences, we turn events into moments.

Ready to host something truly unique?
DM us to book your date.

#EventVenue #UniqueVenue #CorporateEvents #FundraiserEvent #galadinner
12 Seconds That Changed Everything. 1903. Orville 12 Seconds That Changed Everything. 1903.

Orville and Wilbur Wright were not scientists or engineers by training. They ran a bicycle shop in Dayton, Ohio, and spent around $1000 of their own money (no government funding, no university backing) - on four years of glider experiments, wind tunnel tests, and controlled crashes. What they were solving wasn’t just the problem of getting airborne. It was the problem of control - how to steer a machine in 3 dimensions simultaneously. Nobody had cracked it. They did.

On December 17th, 1903, the Wright Flyer made four flights at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. The first lasted 12 seconds and covered 120 feet - shorter than the wingspan of a modern Boeing 747. The last flight covered 852 feet in 59 seconds. Then a gust of wind destroyed the aircraft. That afternoon Orville walked four miles to send their father a telegram. The press barely noticed - just days earlier, a $70 000 government-funded flying machine had crashed into the Potomac River, and most journalists assumed the Wright brothers were telling the same kind of story.

The world paid attention in 1908, when Wilbur demonstrated the aircraft in France. European aviation pioneers who had been working for years came to watch and wept openly. What followed the triumph was grimmer. The brothers spent the next decade in courtrooms, suing competitors who built aircraft using three-axis control. Historians argue their patent wars set American aviation back by years. When the US entered World War I in 1917, not a single American aircraft was considered fit for military service. Wilbur died exhausted in 1912 - typhoid fever contracted after a banquet in Boston, worn down by years of litigation. Orville lived until January 1948, long enough to see jets and understand what those 12 seconds had started.

Neil Armstrong later carried a piece of the Wright Flyer’s fabric to the Moon. The first flight covered 120 feet. The Moon is 239,000 miles away. Sometimes that gap says everything.
How many aircraft can you recognize from this phot How many aircraft can you recognize from this photo of our boneyard?
America’s trash became the Soviets’ treasure. The America’s trash became the Soviets’ treasure.

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was heavily criticized by U.S. pilots — poor high-altitude performance, tricky handling, and not suited for their style of aerial combat. Many in the U.S. considered it underwhelming at best.

But through the Bell P-39 Airacobra supplied under the Lend-Lease Program, everything changed on the Eastern Front.

Soviet pilots didn’t fight high-altitude dogfights — they fought low, fast, and violent. And in that environment, the P-39 thrived. Its rugged frame, tight low-altitude maneuverability, and deadly 37mm cannon made it a feared tank-buster and dogfight weapon.

Rejected by the US… embraced by the Soviets.

#BellP39 #Airacobra #ww2history #yanksairmuseum

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