The Military Aviation Preservation Society is an all volunteer, non-profit organization dedicated to educating people about the history of military aviation. Click HERE or the AIRCRAFT tab above to see a listing of the aircraft in our museum, then click on their name to see their web pages. Click the CATEGORIES to the left to see posts by category.
MAPS Air Museum has entered into an agreement to restore two more of MARC’s aircraft, an A-26 and a BT-13. The transportation will begin on Friday, January 27 and continue until all of the sections have been transported to North Canton.
MAPS Volunteers are currently working on a B-26, C-47, the Beech, the P-51 Fiberglass Mustang and the T-28 that are owned by MARC.
Scissors Lift come to its new home from Abbott Electric. I want to thank them for delivering the unit to MAPS. The lift will allow us to reach the lights in the hanger. It will also give us access to paint the outside of the hanger door and side panels. It is an older unit but it has a 36 ft deck height, a 42 ft working height and it has a capacity of 1,500 lbs.
Dave Pawski draws up the bolts on the left main gear of the B-26.There is not a whole lot better feeling in restoration than putting a part back on an airplane. This gear had to weigh at least 400lbs. by Kent Kleinknecht
Click the picture to go to the article printed in the Canton Repository about the P-51 Restoration activity.
MAPS member Lynn Smart works on the LINK Trainer. The LINK was a basic instrament trainer used during the war and years after. After years of being in the restoration area it has been moved back to its original location in the original museum space. This helps keep the dust away from the sensitive instraments that are in the LINK
Rick Willaman is working on updating the instruments in the Goodyear GZ-22 “The Sprit of Akron.” Click on the picture and scroll down to see the great work that he has been doing.
Click on the picture to download a copy of Number 23, Issue 1 of the Briefing. Thanks to all the contributors and especially Chris Paprocki for publishing this very important document.
Next Membership Meeting will be at 11:00 on Saturday January 14 in the Briefing Room. Please plan to attend.
A very special “Thank You” goes out to the Miller Foundation for supporting our P-51 Mustang Project. Our target is to place our full sized fiberglass P-51 Mustang on a pole on Massillon Road as a monument in the Spring 2012.
We had another great year and I would like to thank all of the volunteers for your time and effort. I am really looking foreword to 2012. We have several new programs and a lot of active projects. We need your help to continue growth at MAPS, so please ask how you can contribute.
