American Airpower Museum

06/22/2026

The Spring and Summer work horse of the museums mission to educate and share aviation history has been the World War II Douglas C-47 “Skytrain”. Our actual C-47B has a great history all its own spanning from WWII Europe, to South East Asia, and the Middle East among stops along the way since it was built in 1944. Between robust local flight operations and flight experiences, to our summer long traveling to air shows where we take history out to everyone on the road, the venerable “Gooney Bird” is such a great teaching platform for teaching the history and legacy of civilian and military aviation. We are just getting started this summer and are excited to fly this here at our home on New York’s Long Island and to a select number of air shows in the coming months! The great part is we can take you up for a flight with us and give you a living history experience like no other! Come see our C-47 at the American Airpower Museum, click the link in our bio for more info on our scenic flight experiences along with our D-Day Airborne living history experiences! Or if you are out on the beaches of Long Island this summer perhaps at the fast approaching FourLeaf Air Show at Jones Beach look up as you might see is us fly by, so give us a wave!
Photo by LSB Photography

06/18/2026

Time flies when you are busy having fun and it’s Thursday once again! Taking it back a little ways to Memorial Day Weekend 2009 with this amazing sunset shot of our American Airpower Museum North American B-25 Mitchell “Miss Hap” with the sun setting looking west from our flight line. One of the first 4 production B-25s built “Miss Hap” is the oldest example of this legendary medium bomber in existence. Tail #40-2168 was the first B-25 delivered to the 17th BG in February 1941 and would serve in operational squadrons until recalled to North American and retrofitted to become a personal transport in 1943 for Commander of the Army Air Force General Henry “Hap” Arnold. More history beyond that but will save that for another post! It is currently undergoing maintenance to return to flight by end of this summer!
Photo by F.Miller / AAM

06/16/2026

TBM Tuesday with the American Airpower Museum WWII Eastern / GM built Grumman TBM-3E “Avenger” providing a great photo pass with Nick Ziroli at the controls for our visitors enjoying the action from our flight line last summer! Over the next few weeks you should see more of this action around Republic Airport as we roll into the July 4th weekend and the FourLeaf Air Show at Jones Beach!

06/15/2026

Start of the new week is at hand, and after a busy Saturday at the American Airpower Museum with C-47, AT-6, and P-51 flight option going full throttle!
To kick off the week we start with little Monday shot from just two weeks ago at the Soar & Shore Air Show presented by Visit Atlantic City over the beaches and boardwalk of Atlantic City NJ! The moment captured when our North American P-51D Mustang “Jacqueline” pulled up off a low photo pass over the water during the Warbird Demonstration! Expertly flown by Matt Kropp for this show and from hearing from all of you it sounds like it was a great show.
The great shot was captured and shared by Ricardo von Puttkammer of Aviation Photojournal !

06/12/2026

Looking like the weather should hold and that means the Mustang will be out of the corral for a flight tomorrow, Saturday June 13th between 1:00-2:00 pm (subject to change) !

06/12/2026

It’s Fast Jet Friday but we will blend it with another throwback with this great shot of the North American F-86 Sabre that operated out of the museum during a a few of the early FourLeaf Air Show Jones Beach Airshow weekends. This shot was captured back in 2007 as the Sabre would join the USAF A-10 Demo Team that year during the Heritage Flight segment of the demo. We have been privileged to see jets from Sabres to F-35s grace the ramps and skies over Republic Airport and look forward to seeing a few more this July 4th weekend!

06/12/2026

Our Living History programs are in full swing for Summer 2026! Our volunteer crews, and Living Historians knock it out of the park!

The American Airpower Museum's immersive Living History Experience is set with another round of flights at the end of June.

06/11/2026

We are excited and looking forward to this Saturday's WWII C-47 Flights! We currently have a few seats left on each of our 3 scheduled flights on Saturday June 13th. Flight program times are 1000, 1100, & 1200. Walk-Ins are welcome to fill available seats if you arrive prior to, or NLT each of the posted check-in times. For more information go to our website for details and how to book your flight. www.americanairpowermuseum.org
Visitors to the museum will also be able to watch the flight operations from our flight line with one of our docent tours!

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06/11/2026

A fun look back for Thursday with an awesome moment frozen in time as our American Airpower Museum Curtiss P-40M “Jacky C.II” flown by the late great Captain Dan Dameo and the then Warbirds over Long Island North American P-51D “Glamorous Gal” flown by Chris Baranaskas would wow visitors to our museum with their precision and airmanship in formation over Republic Airport during our annual events. This great capture takes us back to 2010 during the Memorial Day Weekend Jones Beach Air Show Operations. Photo courtesy of Fred Miller one of our first in house aviation photographers who documented a lot of our early years!