History

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50th Anniversary of Project Gemini

The Missouri Aviation Historical Society was thrilled to formally hold a fiftieth anniversary celebration of the McDonnell Aircraft Corporation’s Project Gemini program on Thursday, June 18th. Designed and built in St. Louis, Missouri, project Gemini became one of the most important aspects of the NASA space program. Held as a direct sequel to our Project Mercury celebration in 2013, former engineers and communication experts re-joined together for a live Q&A panel […]

Boeing Video- ‘Voodoo: Casting a spell for 60 years’

This is a follow-up to the previous re-cap on our special November event, which celebrated the 60th anniversary of the McDonnell F-101 Voodoo. The Missouri Aviation Historical Society would like to thank Boeing Frontiers for attending our special event this past November.We are thrilled to collaborate with the cornerstone of Missouri aviation! The Boeing Company’s official story ‘Voodoo: Casting a spell for 60 years’ can be viewed on most media formats.   In […]

SBD Dauntless Receives New Plaque

This is an extension to our previous coverage on Tom Mohan’s “Honor Flight” Tom Mohan was in good spirits and health as he attended the September 2014 meeting of the Missouri Aviation Historical Society. In May 2014 he re-visited his WWII aircraft at the Spirit of St. Louis Airshow, which was filmed in conjunction with HEC-TV and Steve Schulte Photography. The Commemorative Air Force’s (CAF) ‘Dixie Wing’ located in Peachtree City, […]

MOAVHIST Participates in local S.T.E.M. activities

The Missouri Aviation Historical Society recently participated in S.T.E.M. week at Prairie View Elementary School. MOAVHIST member Joe Gurney took his traveling Blue Angels presentation to Cynthia Ivancic’s classroom which included custom made handouts of an F/A-18 Hornet, photos, books, and other exciting manipulative’s. Mrs. Ivancic’s son is also a T-45 Goshawk instructor pilot for the U.S. Marine Corps who attended the classroom and other S.T.E.M. night activities. Photos below show all the […]

Winter 2014 Meetings: Lambert History and Flying the SR-71

The Missouri Aviation Historical Society held two major meetings for winter 2014, with over 110 people combined in attendance. For our January meeting, Dr. Daniel L. Rust gave a comprehensive history of one of the oldest airfields in the country, Lambert Field. Dr. Rust will be the author of a future book covering the airport from an agreement with the Missouri History Museum, Lambert St. Louis International Airport and The Missouri […]

September Meeting- The Monocoupe

The Missouri Aviation Historical Society met on Thursday, September 19th at it’s usual meeting spot- Creve Coeur Airport. This month’s meeting featured a low-key and relaxing presentation by Vice President Albert Stix Jr. on the history and local significance on the Monocoupe. Images, rare video (that was mysteriously dropped off at the airport years ago), and a live viewing of an actual Monocoupe rounded off the presentation. The Monocoupe on display […]