Mid America Flight Museum

08/28/2026

The latest Harlow update!
This trip north was to finish up a few things, brakes, N #, placards, and weight and balance were the big items. And bring home a truck load of documentation and drawings.
Gratefully, a very uneventful trip home in 1:45 minutes.
Excited to get this airplane finished and polished.

Lots of help from Mike Redpath and James Wirt, on top of our own crew of Daniel and Konner.
A large group of the Harris family and the Harlow team came out to see the departure, to include Ron Decker.

An amazing day of blessings.

08/07/2026

It may be time to tell you of our new acquisition here at the Museum. We had a good week working on the Harlow. Lots of final assembly and rigging, made some successful taxi tests. Getting it back home to Texas is getting very close.

This beautiful 1938 Harlow PJC-2 is serial number 2 of 11. It was pressed into service with the CAA.

Joe Harris bought this airplane and brought it home from Florida, totally corroded away. He spent 40 years of his life bringing it back to life. After his passing, his wife Judy asked if we could help get Joe’s dream across the finish line. This is a future award winner for sure, and we are proud to have it join our collection.

Please spend some time and research Max Harlow and his involvement with Howard Hughes, the H-1Racer, and his tenure with Pasadena Junior College.

More to come, keep your eyes open.
We will be sharing the story of Joe’s team and the journey they made.

Thanks to Mike Redpath and his team in our preflight work this week.

07/31/2026

TEXAS DC-3 REUNION UPDATE.

Our plan is the same, excited to have the DC-3’s come and play September 18 and 19. Now that we are getting closer we are defining it a bit more so everyone can plan accordingly.

An official invitation is going out early next week to all DC-3 operators. To insure we don’t miss someone, we hope they’ll share with other DC-3 operators. This list of aircraft confirmations are growing. On the invite, the list of plans and activities will be further defined, for crews and extended families.

GENERAL PUBLIC is sure encouraged to participate, but that will be limited to operations at the Mt Pleasant Regional Airport (KOSA) on Saturday. All functions at the grass strip are for the DC-3 crews and families. Several of the airplanes will be coming to the big airport on Saturday to coincide with normal museum operations. Several of the operators will also be selling rides. It will be a great time.

Any aircraft operating at the grass strip will be limited to DC-3’s and any others will need PRIOR PERMISSION.

Please contact Kelly with any questions. We sure expect this to be a time to remember.

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07/21/2026

We love airplanes, but it is really about the people. Aviation families are amazing. ❤️

07/19/2026

Money Stripe developing nicely.
Jefferson City MO inbound.
See you soon OSH.

07/10/2026

06/17/2026

Our bi-annual Helicopter reunion was in Urbana, OH this time in conjunction with the traveling Vietnam Memorial Wall. The focus are the veterans that flew and supported our Huey in Vietnam over 50 years ago. It is always so great to hear the stories and share the helicopters. Veterans between the ages of 75 and 90 that transform to 20 year olds again.
We were also able to share with the whole crew of the MAFM Restoration Team, led by Doug Smith.

The Ohio team hosted a great event and the weather and temperatures were fantastic, topped with good food and fellowship.

The three helicopters flew between 15 and 19 hours each and made it home with no discrepancies.

An amazing time with many blessings!
Thank you to all. ❤️

06/14/2026

When it comes to Flag Day, we are pretty picky. We’ll stay with our favorite! 🇺🇸

06/10/2026

We had a couple of days with Jack Fleetwood. It is a busy week for us, but we have so many new things to share with you. So grateful to have him on our team.
There will be more to come, but a very nice set of teasers.

First time we’ve photographed our three helicopters too.

06/03/2026

The GeeBee Racers - The GeeBee aircraft family was designed by the Granville Brothers. Hence the naming of the GeeBee line. The Granville’s produced over a dozen aircraft types. Pictured are 5 of the more infamous GeeBee aircraft. This is not a comprehensive history but a short visual story of the different models in photographs. The GeeBee Y was a sport plane and racer. It had two seats and was powered by several engines for this airframe, the 215hp and 300hp Lycomings and then pictured is the 450hp version. One GeeBee Z (wearing a yellow and black paint scheme) was a purpose built for racing that flew with two powerplants of 535hp and 700hp. It became well known for its wing failure filmed during a speed run in the 1930s. Also of note was a replica of the Z was the star of the 1991 movie, The Rocketeer. Two of the GeeBee R series aircraft (that wore red and white paint schemes) are pictured. The R-1, as race #11, famously flown by Jimmy Doolittle that raced with its 800hp engine. The GeeBee R-2, wearing #7, raced with a 550hp engine. In the 1990s an R-2 was replicated and flown on the airshow circuit by Delmar Benjamin. In 1934 a long range racing version of a GeeBee was designed and built for the Mac Robertson Race which was from London, England to Melbourne, Australia. It was much bigger than the other racers and carried the name Q.E.D. (Quad Erat Demonstrandum meaning “it is proven”). It was powered by a 675hp engine. Cool to note that the original QED survives in Mexico. It flew a famous flight from Mexico City to New York in 1939. The museums GeeBee is a modern QED replica flying with a Wright 1820 of 1400hp.