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 metal replicas of real aircraft, popular among aviation enthusiasts for their accuracy, attention to detail, and historical significance. The hobby fosters ...

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 ...

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 ...

EVERETT — The airplane is in parts — fuselage, wings, engines, control cables, propellers laid out in a hangar corner at the Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field. More than 7,700 were built. Yet, ...

Collectors of old movie-ticket stubs, thimbles and state quarters should be warned: Paul Allen’s assemblage of vintage warplanes may make other collections seem a bit, well, outdone. Museum-goers in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...