News from Carolinas Aviation Museum

From the Carolinas Aviation Museum

The CAM News. A changing newsletter for a museum on the move!

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) is sponsoring its Grassroots Pilot Tour at the museum on Monday January 14th. This meeting is for EAA members only and seating is limited. We suggest that if you plan to attend, please RSVP using the contact information on your EAA invitation to confirm your attendance.

Actually, Carolinas Aviation Museum is becoming a popular location for business meetings. That's right! Businesses and organizations can schedule their meeting in one of our private meeting rooms, then tour the museum. Or they can schedule their business meeting dinner in the museum surrounded by vintage aircraft. If you know of someone who may be interested in having a meeting at a really unique and fun location, ask them to give us a call or contact us on our website.

How Flight 1549 Airbus Came to CAM

Take a look at the story in pictures of the how the Airbus A-320 came to Carolinas Aviation Museum.

Osprey Visits CAM

Last month we mentioned that the CH-46 was giving way to the MV-22 Osprey and this past weekend, an MV-22 visited our museum. This was the last flight for one of the pilots and he choose his crew and his destination....which included touch-and-go's at Kitty Hawk and a visit to CAM to see the CH-46 "Blood Sweat and Tears" helicopter for which one of their Osprey was named.

MV-22 Osprey Crew

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New Addition to the Museum:

A CH-53A helicopter is on its way to CAM from Quantico. The heavy transport helicopter will take its place beside the Cobra in our smaller hangar (Hangar B) behind the gift shop.

CH-53 on its way to CAM

The Sikorsky CH-53A Sea Stallion, a heavy lifting transport helicopter, performed its initial flight in October of 1964...delivery started in 1966. It features a six-bladed main rotor and four-bladed tail rotor. To save space on board naval vessels, the tail boom and the rotors folded up. Check out other images of the CH-53A in action.

Once here, there will be some reassembly time required before the helicopter can be displayed so be sure to check our website for updates on its progress and opening date.

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Airbus Engines Being Assembled
Assembly of the engines from the Airbus A-320 (Flight 1549) are underway with the help of US Airways maintenance volunteers.

Airbus Engine

Both engines will be displayed with the aircraft as soon as they are completed

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Museum Founders Letter

Dear Members

High lights of the years gone by.

Looking back at January, 1993

Happy New Year,

1993 started off cold and rainy, but our members never let up every week the old hangar was coming back to life.

We were asking our membership to help name our newsletter, up until now it was, the newsletter of the Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission. Lynn Minasian, was appointed the membership chairman and Col. Bob Bunnell was appointed the chairman of the publications committee.

Sue Gibbs was chairman of the long range planning committee and was putting together a 1-year,5 -year, and 10-year plan, which was almost ready to be published.

Jack Frye and other members of CHAC were moving the T-28 and other CHAC properties to our "new" hangar. T-28

T-28(2)

The CHAC member's trip to the Smithsonian's National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C for February 5-7, 1993, was well received and almost sold out.

The T-28 club Chairman Sue Gibbs, reported they had raised $882.oo to help restore the T-28.

CHAC "Carolinas Aviation Museum" would not exist if it was not for the support and guidance of the Aviation Director of Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, Mr. Jerry Orr. Mr. Orr had agreed to be our first guest speaker of the year, on Feb. 1, 1993 at our Monthly dinner meeting at Gus's 49'er Restaurant.

1993 had a great start

Sincerely

Floyd S. Wilson

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100 Years Ago This Month (Almost)

Volunteer Don Opgenorth wanted to look back at 100 years this month but found we have a hole in our files for that year...so we take a look at 101 years. If anyone has articles, ads, or other print media from 1913 and would like to donate it, please contact the CAM Library.

The first flight occurred in 1903...here are some ads from just 9 years later...1912.