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Birmingham’s Own “Mini-Mac”Birmingham’s Own “Mini-Mac” • The Historic Lockheed A-12 “Oxcart” • A Restoration Craftsman • The Museum’s Historic Motor Cars * Reconnaissance Cameras on Display
In MemoriamThe B-25s Ventral Turret – Maybe the Last One • The Gnome Rotary Engine • A C-47 “Glider
August 1, 2019
Charles Lindbergh Visits BirminghamCharles Lindbergh Visits Birmingham • The Spirit of St. Louis Flight Simulator • A Ryan Replica Finds a New Home at the Museum • The Early Atlantic Ocean crossings
October 1, 2019
February 1, 2022
On a bet, Richard Macon, a Birmingham native andgraduate of Miles College in Fairfield, AL with abachelor’s degree in mathematics, took the entranceexams for the U. […]
January 1, 2022
n January 5, 1967, a sister-ship of our museum’sLockheed A-12 (Article 131) was returning from atraining flight to the now well-known CIA’s advancedaviation research facility base […]
December 1, 2021
Wright Brothers Day commemorates the first successful flight of the Wright Flyer I, heavier-thanair powered aircraft built by Orville and Wilbur Wright. It took place on […]
The Mini-Mac was an original design homebuilt aircraft of Charles E. McCarley of Bessemer, Alabama.
Of all-metal construction, the tri-gear, single-seat aircraft was powered by a 65 hp VW 1800 engine.
Built by the designer himself and registered as Special 1600, this aircraft was first flown in July 1970. It was lost in a fatal accident at Bessemer Airport on October 28, 1978.
