2024 Wings & Wheels Expo - Presented by The Hagerstown Aviation Museum
Schedule
Sat Sep 14 2024 at 09:00 am to 04:00 pm
Location
Hagerstown Aviation Museum | Maugansville, MD
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2024 Hagerstown Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting at Wings & Wheels Expo! Saturday, September 14th, 2024, 9am-4pm
Celebrate Aviation History at the Hagerstown Aviation Museum's Grand Opening Ribbon Cutting and Aircraft Dedication!
The ribbon-cutting festivities kick off at 11:30am to mark the museum's grand opening. Witness the dedication of six newly acquired aircraft to the museum's already impressive collection. Throughout the ceremony, the Marine Corps League will present the Colors and the New Horizons Band will perform the National Anthem at noon - plus a grand opening commemorative postcard will be available to ceremony attendees as a memento of this event!
WINGS!
Featuring the Hagerstown Aviation Museum’s extensive collection of vintage aircraft built in Hagerstown. Bring the family out and climb aboard museum aircraft like the Fairchild C-82, C-119 Flying Boxcars and the C-123K. See other museum aircraft: 1928 Kreider Reisner KR-31 biplane, and Fairchild 22, 24, PT-19 and PT-26 all built in Hagerstown. See recently acquired aircraft; Fairchild XNQ-1, F-27, UC-61, RC-26B and Bell UH-1V Huey helicopter.
Make a $200 donation and experience the thrill of open-cockpit flying for a sight-seeing tour in the museum's 1943 Fairchild PT-19 Primary Trainer!!
Also see the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation's Douglas C-54 "Spirit of Freedom" and the Air Heritage Museum's Fairchild C-123K "Thunder Pig". Douglas DC-3 Yukon Sourdough will be open for tours.
EAA Chapter 36 will be offering free Young Eagle airplane rides for kids ages 8-17. Find out more at https://chapters.eaa.org/eaa36
WHEELS!
Featuring antique and classic cars, trucks, military vehicles, antique tractors, & motorcycles! That's not all! Tractor-trailers, cranes, law enforcement, SWAT vehicles, & much more. Owners can register their vehicle on site ($10 per car) for the Classic Cruise-In and the first 200 vehicles receive a custom event dash plaque!
FUN!
Lunch and sweets available from Local Vendors. This community event is a great day for the family to visit the airport & learn more about Hagerstown’s Aviation Past, Present, and Future. Museum merchandise, toys, books, hats, T-shirts are for sale.
Admission by donation. Your donations will support future museum events and help rehabilitate the museum's new home in the original 1943 Fairchild Aircraft Flight Test Hangar, also known as the Dome Hangar. Learn more about this historic building and its future at Wings & Wheels.
Free Parking, Follow Event Signage.
Two visitor parking lots: Follow parking signs to 14211 Basore Dr. or parking at 18450 Showalter Rd.
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Where is it happening?
Hagerstown Aviation Museum, 14268 Basore Dr, Hagerstown, MD 21742, United States,Maugansville, MarylandEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
