A great restoration update on the American Heritage Museum Fairchild PT-19 Recruit that served as a training aircraft for the Tuskegee Airmen from Vintage Aviation News -
vintageaviationnews.com
The American Heritage Museum is restoring one of only two surviving Fairchild PT-19A trainers used by the Tuskegee Airmen. Delivered new to Moton Field in 1944, the aircraft is undergoing a full facto...
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Here is this week’s challenge for “What is it Wednesday?” - What is it?! ![]()
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Thanks to everyone who played last week… The answer for August 27th is the tailhook on our F6F-3N Hellcat… see the previous post for the full details!![]()
Good luck on this week’s challenge! ![]()
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The answer to the “What is it? Wednesday” question from August 27th is the tailhook on our F6F-3N Hellcat! Tailhooks like these are used to quickly slow down carrier based airplanes by hooking onto an arrester wire on the deck of their ship!![]()
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Stay tuned for the next “What is it? Wednesday” question tomorrow, September 3rd at 10:00 am EST!![]()
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The American Heritage Museum is honored to be named by National Geographic as one of the Top 10 World War II Museum's in the world! Read all about it:
10 remarkable World War II museums around the world
www.nationalgeographic.com
To mark the 80th anniversary of the end of the war, we asked historians to share their favorite museums around the world.American Heritage Museum Staff
Rob Collings
President & Financial Director
Ryan Keough
Vice President, Institutional Advancement
Hunter Chaney
Director of Marketing, Communications and Education
Ken Miles
Director of Operations
Kim Hull
Gift Shop Manager
Jim Carroll
Education Coordinator
Andrew Ford
Director of Social Media
Colin Rixon
Co-Manager, Volunteers & Lead Docent
Remy Carroll
Co-Manager, Volunteers
Dick Moran
Restoration Manager
Chris Cassidy
Operations
