Piper-Fuller field was built and dedicated in 1926 as the city’s first dedicated airport and featured three grass runways in the heart of the lower Pinellas Peninsula. Built by H. Walter Fuller …
Just over a decade after Wright Brother’s first flight at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, aviation had yet to find practical use. Barnstormers traveled the countryside in search of passengers but the airplane and …
The air was calm and the sun was starting to creep down towards the horizon as Howard Robard Hughes donned his signature hat and carefully stepped into the cockpit of his newly …
Over the course of the second world war, the number of military bases on the Floridian peninsula skyrocketed from 12 to nearly 200 as the Navy and Army Air Corps began to …
The fledging City of Kissimmee in Osceola County was barely 25 years old when aviation started to spread like wildfire across the world’s imagination. Of course, only eight years had passed since …
The world’s first wireless transmission from an aircraft occurred over West Palm Beach, Florida in February 1911 with John Alexander Douglas McCurdy at the controls. J.A.D. McCurdy was a Canadian aviation pioneer …
Captain Dale Mabry was one of Florida’s very first aviation heroes. Due to an impressive family tree and a drive to experience flight, he enlisted and served in the U.S. Army’s 10th …
A gorgeous Fleetwings Seabird, wearing the markings of the Volusia Flying Service in Daytona Beach, rests in the waters of Lake Eloise, Florida surrounded by onlookers. This photograph can be found right …
Florida Air Museum has joined the Citrus Label Tour of Polk County, hosting the 1919 NC-4 label from Polk County’s Florence Citrus Growers Association.
At FAM, visitors learn of significant contributions historic airlines made to the development of Florida’s rich commercial aviation history and SUN ‘n FUN.
FAM joins museums nationwide in participating in Blue Star Museums, providing free admission to active-duty military and families this summer.
Draken International donated a Russian Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 single-engine jet fighter to the Florida Air Museum.
