Heritage Flight Museum

Heritage Flight Museum Heritage Flight Museum is dedicated to honoring veterans and flying historic military aircraft. New Hours: Thursday through Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
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The museum will reopen to the public starting Thursday, July 22, 2021.

Tandem Catering food truck will be dishing up the fish this coming Saturday at our September Fly Day
09/01/2026

Tandem Catering food truck will be dishing up the fish this coming Saturday at our September Fly Day

The P-51 Forecast: If you’re feeling pangs of starvation for a glimpse of a breathtaking Val-Halla flight, your upcoming...
08/18/2026

The P-51 Forecast: If you’re feeling pangs of starvation for a glimpse of a breathtaking Val-Halla flight, your upcoming options are as follows, in order of most to least likely:*
1. Attend the 5 September Fly Day at Heritage Flight Museum between 10:00 am and 3:00 pm. Your chances of seeing Val-Halla fly at this event increase toward the latter half of the day’s festivities. This is your best option, and the one that comes with the official HFM Stamp of Approval™.
2. Attend the Yellowstone International Airshow in Billings, Montana this approaching weekend. While your Mustang-viewing chances are equally high here, it’s a long drive and if it sells out before you get there, you may need to wear an appropriate hat and sneak in under a plausible cover story; our unofficial suggestion is to pose as a vendor hawking “Afterburner Sauce” on the flight line.
3. Hang out at the True North Bakery at Skagit Regional Airport approximately tomorrow (19 Aug) in the vicinity of 9:45 to 10:15 am and watch Val-Halla depart runway 11/29 for the airshow mentioned above, and while you’re at it, have a scone. Seriously, this bakery closes end of Sept (sad face) and if you haven’t sampled their unbelievably good wares yet, your last chance is on the horizon.
4. Attend the Santa Maria and/or San Francisco Airshows 11-13 September and 9-11 October, respectively. Advantage to this approach: you will see a lot of other really cool aircraft at the same time. Disadvantage: California is overdue for a big earthquake.
5. Stand out in a field near the Skagit Regional Airport on a Sunday after the airshows mentioned above and wait for Val-Halla to fly by on her way back home to HFM. For this option, you will need sunscreen and/or umbrella, a sack lunch, a good book and a lot of patience, plus a lax attitude toward the concept of certainty.
6. Camp out at the end of runway 11/29 and make an appropriate sacrifice (a squirrel or bag of Doritos should do the trick) to the twin Greek Gods of Weather and Maintenance, Hurricania and Magnetus. Then cross your fingers and wait for a maintenance hop or an Anders attitude-adjustment flight.
7. Go to HFM, stand in the middle of the museum and yell “FIRE!” as loudly as you can. Val-Halla will probably be the first aircraft Greg tries to save, and he may opt to fly her off to a safer spot, which may afford an impromptu demonstration of her capabilities. NOTE: this one’s a long shot, plus you may be arrested for fomenting panic in a nonprofit setting. And this option definitely does NOT include the official HFM Stamp of Approval™.

*Please be aware that due to the vagaries of wind, weather and whim, none of the above suggestions fall under the HFM Iron-Clad™ Guarantee. However, most of them just barely land in the shade of a small corner of our ubiquitous Jello-Clad™ guarantee. Plan accordingly.

Matthew Abbott from Janicki Industries was back at HFM today testing the "first draft" of a 3-D printed cone that will h...
08/10/2026

Matthew Abbott from Janicki Industries was back at HFM today testing the "first draft" of a 3-D printed cone that will help support the top part of our Saturn V model where it attaches to the lower half of the rocket, stabilizing damage to the structure. Our Saturn V was one of several mobile exhibition models made by NASA to tour the country for public education outreach and maintaining political and financial support for the expensive Apollo program.

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), established on 5 August, 1943 by merging two ...
08/06/2026

Yesterday was the anniversary of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), established on 5 August, 1943 by merging two existing programs, the WAFS and WFTD. While looking for a post to mark the occasion, we made the poignant discovery that only one of this pioneering group of pilots remains: 105-year-old Nell Bright (her birthday was last June) is the last living WASP. At age 21, with a pilots license and over 75 hours, she qualified to apply and was part of class 43-W-7, which began training on 29 May 1943 at Avenger Field. After graduation on 13 November 1943, she was one of twenty chosen to be the first women trained to fly B-25 bombers at Mather Field, California. As we contemplate the hardiness of this centenarian hero, the best salute we can offer is to thank her for her service and encourage everyone to keep the stories of these amazing women alive in the years to come. You can learn about Margaret E. "Marge" Neyman, this museum’s resident WASP honoree, at an exhibit near Cornelia Fort’s Interstate Cadet in Hangar 2.

12,026 years ago, more or less, in a field of grain somewhere under the vast skies of Mesopotamia, beer was accidentally...
08/04/2026

12,026 years ago, more or less, in a field of grain somewhere under the vast skies of Mesopotamia, beer was accidentally invented. A puff of breeze, a bit of rain, some spilled grains and wild yeast sparked an age of obsession with either perfecting the product or just making it as profitable as possible. Some of the techniques used to improve beer in recent years include boiling the wort by dropping hot stones into wooden vats, capturing the yeast from a meteorite that fell from outer space, fertilizing the growing malt with human urine, smoking the harvested malt in a barbecue full of brisket, and a long list of strange additions: oysters, edible glitter, coffee beans extracted from elephant poo, Norwegian currency, boiled squid ink, whale testicles, fossilized Jurassic yeast DNA, pre-chewed corn, pork brains, ground cicada carcasses, and the seemingly unavoidable autumnal addition of pumpkin spice, to name a few.
If you aren’t an extreme craft brewer but want to enhance your beer-drinking experience as much as you can within the limitations of your beer knowledgeability quotient, here is something you can try without needing to scour the circumference of the globe (sorry, flat Earthers) for weird things to put in your beer. It is a simple four-step process as follows: 1) go immediately to the HFM gift shop; 2) buy an official HFM pint glass; 3) pour your favorite beer into the glass; 4) drink the beer.
You may be asking yourself how is that going to make my beer taste better? The process, we must admit, is not well understood by science, but it goes something like this: centuries of camaraderie, brotherhood and/or sisterhood among those who built, maintained and flew the historic air and space craft of the United States have suffused the very air inside Heritage Flight Museum with a unique vibration frequency. Objects made of glass, wood and metal that remain in this rarefied air for a certain amount of time take on the frequency and it subtly alters them at the molecular level. Contact with liquid immediately releases the vibes into the liquid, where it imparts an indefinite something that lends a feeling of belonging to an elite corps, which, we have noticed, tends to make beer taste better than it otherwise would. It helps also to sip your beer while sitting on the wing of a P-51 on the tarmac in the late afternoon sunshine. But that part is optional.

A few months ago HFM representatives Will and Mark made a long haul across the highways and byways of North America to b...
07/30/2026

A few months ago HFM representatives Will and Mark made a long haul across the highways and byways of North America to bring a genuine 1960s Apollo Program Saturn V model from a NASA warehouse in Huntsville, Alabama to the Pacific Northwest. Here's the latest on that: we've been lucky to team up with experts at Janicki Industries to restore parts of the rocket that have been damaged over the decades. Senior Metrology Technician Matthew Abbott brought a 3-D scanner to help the team reconstruct a damaged collar that connects the model's second stage to its third stage. A huge thank you to an awesome partner!

There is something about a magnet that inevitably draws us in. They say nature abhors a vacuum and maybe that’s why we c...
07/28/2026

There is something about a magnet that inevitably draws us in. They say nature abhors a vacuum and maybe that’s why we can’t accept an unadorned refrigerator door. Whatever the source of our deep biological instinct to stick things on things, it’s part of our humanity and there’s no point in trying to fight it. So go ahead, add a Heritage Flight Museum magnet to the jumble of artifacts displayed on your metal surfaces. As you happily skip down the trail of memories summoned by souvenirs of every interesting spot you have ever been, you will glow with the wonder and joy of recollecting your first visit to HFM. And you can bask in the certainty that the person you were, who had never seen the famous Earthrise photo and couldn’t tell a Redstone from a Saturn V, has blossomed into a wiser and stronger human specimen, a thinker, an intrepid explorer of mental space. It is a badge of honor your fridge will wear with pride.

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15053 Crosswind Drive
Burlington, WA
98233

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Thursday 10am - 4pm
Friday 10am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm

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