Warbird Information Exchange

Next in the series of "I created a list because I got tired of keeping track of stuff" (previous entry) is something I've been wanting to do for a long time, but never gotten around to - a collection of aviation museum newsletters. My initial plan (and maybe something I'll do in the future) was to set up a dummy email address - something like "Aerospace Museum Newsletter Archive" - and sign up for every aviation museum's email out there. However, for the time being, I'm just going to settle for a list of the ones available online:

Museum - Name

• Air Mobility Command Museum - Hangar Digest
• Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum - [Unnamed]
• Australian Gliding Museum - [Unnamed] (Parent Directory)
• Bird Aviation Museum & Innovation Center [Unnamed] (Parent Directory)
• Combat Air Museum - Plane Talk
• Commemorative Air Force, Houston Wing - Slips and Skids
• Dakota Territory Air Museum - [Unnamed]
• Estrella Warbirds Museum - Eagle
• Estrella Warbirds Museum - [Unnamed]
• Fargo Air Museum - Flightline (Parent Directory)
• Fort Worth Aviation Museum - Museum Insider (Non-Dedicated Page)
• Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum - Log Book (Non-Dedicated Page)
• Glenn H. Curtiss Museum - Aerogram
• Golden Age Air Museum - The Stick and Rudder (Parent Directory)
• Grissom Air Museum - GAM-News (Parent Directory)
• Harrington Aviation Museum - The Dropzone
• Heritage Flight Museum - [Unnamed]
• Hickory Aviation Museum - The Fury (Parent Directory)
• Legacy Flight Museum - Propwash
• MAPS Air Museum - The Briefing
• Maine Air Museum - Dirigo Flyer
• Military Aviation Museum - Prop Noise
• Millville Army Air Field Museum - Thunderbolt
• Museum of Berkshire Aviation - [Unnamed]
• Museum of Flying - Airview News (Parent Directory)
• Museum of Flying - Taking Flight (Parent Directory)
• National Air Force Museum of Canada - The Logbook
• National Soaring Museum - NSM News
• National Warplane Museum - Hangar Tales
• National WASP WWII Museum - WASP Tales (Parent Directory)
• Niagara Aerospace Museum - [Unnamed] (Parent Directory)
• Pacific Coast Air Museum - Straight Scoop
• Parham Airfield Museum - [Unnamed]
• Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum - NOTAM
• Pima Air & Space Museum - Skywriting (Parent Directory)
• Port Townsend Aero Museum - [Unnamed]
• Silent Wings Museum - [Unnamed]
• Tri-State Warbird Museum - Taking Flight
• TWA Museum at 10 Richards Road - [Unnamed]
• TWA Museum at 10 Richards Road - [Unnamed]
• United States Army Aviation Museum - The Prop and Rotor (Parent Directory)
• Walker Aviation Museum - [Unnamed] (Parent Directory)
• War Eagles Air Museum - Plane Talk
• Warhawk Air Museum - Flightline (Parent Directory)
• Western Museum of Flight - The Supercruiser
• World War II Flight Training Museum - Cadet Flyer
• Yankee Air Museum - Approaches (Parent Directory)

A few notes:

• In a few instances, the museum had either more than one newsletter or more than one dedicated page. When this is the case, the there is one entry for each link.
• In the event that the museum does not maintain a dedicated page where the newsletters are collected, then the parent directory on the website that includes all of the newsletters is linked. The most common format is: "[museum name].org/wp-content/uploads/[year]/[month]/[specific filename].pdf".
• If you are looking for one from a specific museum, trying searching Google for "Aviation Museum Newsletter filetype:pdf", as this will restrict the results to only PDFs and most newsletters are in this format.
• A number of the newsletters don't have named beyond "[Museum Name] Newsletter", so they have simply been listed as "[Unnamed]".

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

Thanks, that's a handy resource.

Lots of info there. Thanks for putting that together.

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Ain't no sunshine when she's gone!

Great resource! Thanks for compiling this.

One to add is Canadian Warplane Heritage's Flightlines, which can be found here: https://www.warplane.com/about/flightlines.aspx.

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Matt

Aviation Museum Newsletters (Museum - Name) (Cont.)

• Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum - Flightlines
• Museum of Flight - Ready Room

Other Newsletters (Organization - Name)

• Sikorsky Archives - [Unnamed]

A note:

• Similar to the WordPress file structure mentioned in the original post, another common convention that has aided in the sussing out of newsletters is that many museums use the email service provider Constant Contact to distribute digital copies. Therefore, like the PDF filetype search trick, searching Google for "Aviation Museum site:myemail.constantcontact.com", which restricts the results to only those from the aforementioned URL, is particularly useful. Unfortunately, to my knowledge there is no way to locate a list of all newsletters and there are generally far too many to link easily, so the list below is limited to just noting that they exist.

Aviation Museum Newsletters - Constant Contact (Museum - Name)

• Alberta Aviation Museum - From the Hangar (Example)
• Aviation Museum of Kentucky - Flight Lines (Example 1, Example 2)
• Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum - [Unnamed] (Example)
• Estrella Warbirds Museum - [Unnamed] (Example)
• National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force - [Unnamed] (Example 1, Example 2)
• National Museum of World War II Aviation - [Unnamed] (Example)
• Sullenberger Aviation Museum - [Unnamed] (Example)
• Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum - [Unnamed] (Example 1, Example 2)

Other Newsletters - Constant Contact (Museum - Name)

• Naval Aviation Museum Foundation - [Unnamed] (Example)
• Pan-Am Museum Foundation - [Unnamed] (Example)
• USS Ranger Foundation - [Unnamed] (Example)

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

Very nice list!

Thanks!

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Moreno Aguiari
mo@vintageaviationnews.com
http://www.vintageaviationnews.com

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

This might also be identified as The Air Museum News, AKA TAM News.

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

The Military Aviation Museum has started a new one called "From the Workshop Restoration Recap"

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster

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Tri-State Warbird Museum Collections Manager & Museum Attendant

Warbird Philosophy Webmaster