Talk:Planes of Fame Air Museum

Promotion
This article reads like an advertisement for the museum, down to including the prices for the airplane rides. This may have something to do with its references being almost entirely the organization's own website. If this isn't rectified, I'd recommend deletion. --Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 18:26, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
 * After posting a warning, you should wait a few days before going to AfD. People don't check these talk pages that often. Anyway, I cleaned up some obvious ad junk. --MarsRover (talk) 19:07, 2 March 2011 (UTC)

Planes of Fame East
No mention is made of the Planes of Fame East that was based out of Flying Cloud airport in Eden Prairie, MN (a suburb of Minneapolis). That museum was closed in 1997 and aircraft were relocated to Chino. Aircraft from that museum included:

Beech T-34B 	"Mentor" 	BuNo 140699, Boeing-Stearman N2S-3 	"Kaydet" 	BuNo 38369, Curtiss TP-40N 	"Warhawk" 	sn 44-7084, Douglas A-26C 	"Invader" 	sn 41-39359, Eastern FM-2 	"Wildcat" 	BuNo 55627, Eastern TMB-3E 	"Avenger" 	BuNo 53785, Federal Aircraft Factory (EKW) 	C-3605 	Swiss C-483, Goodyear FG-1D 	"Corsair" 	BuNo 92629, Grumman F6F-5 	"Hellcat" 	BuNo 94473, Grumman F8F-2 	"Bearcat" 	N700A, Lockheed P-38J 	"Lightning" 	sn 44-23314, North American B-25J 	"Mitchell" 	sn 44-86747, North American P-51D 	"Mustang" 	sn 44-84753, North American T-6G 	"Texan" 	sn 49-3402, North American T-28B 	"Trojan" 	BuNo 140041, Piper J-3C 	"Cub" 	N28118, Republic P-47D 	"Thunderbolt" 	sn 45-49205, Stearman PT-17 	"Kaydet" 	sn 42-16830, Supermarine 	"Spitfire" Mk. XIV 	N114BP, Yakovlev YAK-11 	"Moose" 	N25YK,

Proposed changes
Correct error in history. Museum moved to Ontario in 1963, not 1962.

Collection: Change format so it looks cleaner. Hard to read. For aircraft listed as being under restoration, the information is incorrect. They are restored by volunteers, not the restoration shop (Fighter Rebuilders). Also, the Mohawk is not undergoing restoration.

The monthly events are not 'mini airshows' they are referred to as Living History Events. Also, other than rare occassions, they do not fly 2 - 3 aircraft at the Living History Events. They normally fly a single aircraft.

475th - The hangar has been built for years. This section is out of date.

Additionally, I would like to update pictures on the page as the ones there look like they are from the 70's.

I am a museum member and occasional volunteer with Planes of Fame — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fly1katana (talk • contribs) 16:42, 18 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Updates to the the article are always welcome, but since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, they must be sourced to reliable sources. If you have refs that we can cite, then these can be added.


 * The photos each have dates on them, if you click on the photos themselves and check the file info. At least one is from 2013 and the rest are all since 2000, it seems. More photos are always welcome, too, but you need to take them yourself or have written permission to use them.


 * The article has has some recent problems with some new editors trying to copy and paste copyrighted text from the museum's website into the article, in violation of US copyright law and so this has had to be quickly removed to avoid legal issues. It would be far better to revise the text and footnote it all properly. - Ahunt (talk) 17:57, 18 August 2017 (UTC)

References for Museum History
Below are 37 references to newspaper articles from the museum's early history that may be useful for improving the article:



–Noha307 (talk) 00:52, 18 February 2022 (UTC)