Wednesday, August 10, 2011

NEAM visits CASC!


The Connecticut Air & Space Center was visited by a large group of members from the New England Air Museum on Tuesday to view our facility and growing collection. While NEAM was founded in 1959, their collection is unrivaled in the entirety of New England. It was not only exciting but insightful to have 12 or so members from such a prestigious and acknowledged museum visit our humble workshop and small museum. Their interest should inspire us to push ahead and open permanently to the public in some form or fashion. Be it in our current location or an off site satellite location, we have enough artifacts (and with enough planning) the capability to design and build some amazing displays. The hour long tour consisted of numerous and thought provoking questions from the fellow tours, general amazement and interest, with periodic stops along the many large aircraft and displays. All in all it was a day showing other airplane people around our airplanes. We hope to continue coordinating and working with “our big brothers” up north that will be beneficial and helpful to both organizations.