MAPS Air Museum

Membership Meeting held in renovated library.

Kim — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:31:42 +0000

Thank You! ……….. to all the Members who have dedicated the last 4 months to the renovation of the Louise Timken Library, especially Jerry Ramey and Dale Cox. The carpet was installed last week as as soon as they could walk on it, the members started installing bookcases and Barb Johnston, Mary Ann Cameron and Terry Harriman started moving the books. Great Job goes out to everyone who contributed to this very important addition to MAPS.

A-26 comes to its new home at MAPS

Kim — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:23:05 +0000

Thanks goes out to a group of MAPS Members and Wayne Knoll for taking the time to coordinate the pickup of the BT-13 and the A-26. These aircraft are owned by MARC and will be restored and displayed at MAPS.

We would also like to recognize the G&K Company for their support and guidance regarding the transportation of these aircraft. Great Job Guys.

Feb 11 Saturday 11:00 Membership Meeting

Kim — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:23:11 +0000

The monthly membership meeting will be held in the newly renovated Louise Timken library. It will be held at 11:00 and all members are invited to review all of the final results of 2011. It was our best year and everyone should be congratulated on our success. Special thank you goes out to the people who worked on the library, especially Jerry Ramey, Dale Cox and Bob Schwartz. Many others also need to be thanked; Don Neidert, Rick Hamlet, Fred Lindsay, Jack Hastings, Steve Satchell and many others who I am sorry if I forgot to mention.

MAPS gets two Aircraft from MARC

Kim — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:03:02 +0000

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.

MAPS gets a scissors lift

Kim — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:29:12 +0000

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.

B-26 starts to get her wheels

Kim — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:51:09 +0000

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

P-51 Mustang on Massillon Road

Kim — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:21:35 +0000

Click the picture to go to the article printed in the Canton Repository about the P-51 Restoration activity.

Link Trainer Restoration

Kim — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 04:12:22 +0000

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

GZ-22 gets an upgrade

Kim — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 15:21:33 +0000

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.

23 Issue 1 “The Briefing” has been Published

Kim — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:37:13 +0000

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.