Florida Air Museum News Archive

Smithsonian Day

Free Admission for Smithsonian Museum Day!

Join us on Saturday, September 17th to celebrate Smithsonian Museum Day! Daily admission will be free for all ...
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Florida Children's Museum

The Florida Air Museum is partnering with Explorations V!

We are excited to announce that the Florida Air Museum and Explorations V (soon to be renamed the ...
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Father's Day 2022

Father’s Day Promotion

Join us on June 19th, 2022 as we celebrate Father’s Day! Dads will receive free admission with the ...
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Piper-Fuller

Piper-Fuller Field: St. Petersburg’s First Airport

Piper-Fuller field was built and dedicated in 1926 as the city’s first dedicated airport and featured three grass ...
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Unknowing Pioneers

Unknowing Pioneers and the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line

Just over a decade after Wright Brother’s first flight at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, aviation had yet to find ...
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Hughes XF-11

Hughes XF-11 Gearboxes and Wind Tunnel Model

The air was calm and the sun was starting to creep down towards the horizon as Howard Robard ...
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The Bushnell Project: Chemical Warfare Amidst the Pines.

Over the course of the second world war, the number of military bases on the Floridian peninsula skyrocketed ...
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Another World First

Another World First: Kissimmee’s Air Ordinance, 1908

The fledging City of Kissimmee in Osceola County was barely 25 years old when aviation started to spread ...
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JAD McCurdy

J.A.D. McCurdy and The World’s First Wireless Air to Ground Transmission

The world’s first wireless transmission from an aircraft occurred over West Palm Beach, Florida in February 1911 with ...
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