The Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum will be hosting an open house Memorial Day Weekend, May 24th, 25th and 26th.
There will be free admission to the museum for all military, active or retired. Also, all Brevard County residents will be admitted free. ID is required.
The hours of the open house will be 9AM-5PM, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Food and refreshments will be available.
Not much is known yet, but there is a small museum at the Melbourne International Airport.
This is from the website: ” Take some extra time to visit the aviation museum at Melbourne International Airport. Displays include the history of the airport and the Naval Air Station during World War II and a restored Link trainer.
Also included are displays from Florida Tech, Northrop Grumman, Harris Corporation, NASA,45th Space Wing – PAFB, Liberty Bell Museum, Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute,and aviation artwork by local artists from the Brevard Cultural Alliance. “
If anyone has some photos, please forward them.
The March/April VAC newsletter is online.
The Naval Aviation Museum Foundation’s 22nd Annual Naval Aviation Symposium brings together military elite May 7–9 at the National Naval Aviation Museum for three days of exciting events including a golf tournament, performances by the Navy Band New Orleans and panel discussions featuring Astronauts, POWs and Naval Officers.
Throughout the symposium, attendees will have an opportunity to meet POW panelist Mike McGrath, who will be signing his book, “Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi” before and after panel discussions in the Flight Deck Store. McGrath spent five years and nine months as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after a failed reconnaissance mission sent his aircraft to the ground. His captors transported him to the Hanoi Hilton where he endured a life of isolation, torture and misery. The images etched in Mike McGrath’s memory from his time spent in Hanoi were put to paper and published in the book, and sketches from his book are on display in the POW exhibit in the Museum.
The U.S. Navy will also induct five current and former members of the Navy and Marine Corps into the Museum’s prestigious “Hall of Honor” at the Hall of Honor Enshrinement Ceremony on Thursday, May 8 at 8:30 a.m. in the Blue Angels Atrium. Distinguished enshrinees include retired Navy Adm. Stanley Arthur, Marine Corps Lt. Col. Harold Bauer (deceased), Navy Rear Adm. Clarence McClusky, Jr. (deceased), retired Navy Rear Adm. J.D. Ramage and retired Navy Capt. Robert Rassmussen.
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