A Look Back at the Museum’s F-84 • Birmingham’s Early Airfields • The “Skunkworks” and the Museum’s A-12 “Blackbird” • The Cold War Bombshelter History on the Museum’s Property
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
During June and July, the beginning and the end of the Korean War (1950-1953) is remembered at the Southern Museum of Flight. On exhibit in the South Wing Hangar are two popular fighters of the war, the F-86 “Sabrejet” and the MiG-15 “Fagot”.