WAAAM Museum

[SuberAvid 617]

I just got back from a visit to the home town and made time for another walk through of a great little museum there in Hood River, OR called theWestern Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum. It is all private funded with donated airplanes and vehicles and all volunteer help. Except for the ones still being resored, all of the airplanes and vehicles fly and drive, and they fly them regularly on a rotaional basis. If you are ever in the area, it is definately a worth see. I got to talk to the guy who started it and donated about 75% of the planes plus built the hangars and continues to make it his personal work. He said he has flown every airworthy plane in the hangar. I thought it would be fun to post pictures of some of the planes, maybe you all can guess what they are. I will post some for now and more later. The one low wing yellow plane has a flat head Ford V8 and was one of the very few CAA certified airplanes with an automobile engine.

[Trackwelder 12]

I just got back from a visit to the home town and made time for another walk through of a great little museum there in Hood River, OR called theWestern Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum. It is all private funded with donated airplanes and vehicles and all volunteer help. Except for the ones still being resored, all of the airplanes and vehicles fly and drive, and they fly them regularly on a rotaional basis. If you are ever in the area, it is definately a worth see. I got to talk to the guy who started it and donated about 75% of the planes plus built the hangars and continues to make it his personal work. He said he has flown every airworthy plane in the hangar. I thought it would be fun to post pictures of some of the planes, maybe you all can guess what they are. I will post some for now and more later. The one low wing yellow plane has a flat head Ford V8 and was one of the very few CAA certified airplanes with an automobile engine.

That ford V-8 would have about 60hp, who is going to be first to put it into there Avid? Nice pictures.

[jackak 20]

Nice pictures Randy, thanks for sharing.

Jack

[akflyer 1427]

The 5th picture is a Curtiss Robin. The 6th is a Jenny and the 9th is an American Eagle 101.

I won't take a guess at the Pientenpol cause you got the name right in the picture

One of the guys in the local model club here is good buddies with the owner of the museum. He goes down every year and flys the old iron around (yeah, I'm not gonna lie, I get jealous every time he goes down there)