Remembering the Korean War

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
Plane That Led the D-Day Invasion Visits the Museum
Plane That Led the D-Day Invasion Visits the Museum • GearZ – a TV Show Gets Inspired when Visiting the A-12 Blackbird • Meet Board Member Bill Barnes, WWII P-38 Pilot
May 1, 2019
Get To Know the Russian Mi-24 Hind “Flying Tank”
Get To Know the Russian Mi-24 Hind “Flying Tank” • The Museum’s Education Outreach • “A MiG-15 To Freedom” – The Museum’s Korea War Diorama
July 1, 2019
March 23, 2023
March 2023 Flight Lines

Flight Lines March 2023

March 11, 2022
March 2023 Flight Lines

Women’s History Month

Women’s Veteran’s Memorial
February 1, 2022

Remembering Birmingham’s Richard Macon

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

Remembering Walter Ray, CIA Pilot
Tragic Crash of an Lockheed A-12 • A New Blackbird? Air America CIA Pilot • Visits Museum

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 Flyer Monument at Maxwell AFB
Birmingham’s 150th Anniversary • Wright Brothers Day The Third USS Birmingham • A Year of Transformation • The Watch That Came In From The Cold

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”.

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