New Museum Location
New Museum Location Plans
We are on the move!
Check out what we are planning for the new museum!
Construction Has Begun!
For all those who were wondering when the columns would rise and construction would begin on the new museum site, let the bells ring out! Here she comes! Be sure to watch this page for regular updates, or if you live in the neighborhood, visit the site after hours (3pm) to see for yourself!
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Collections Team Meets with New Executive Director
On 11 August, new museum Executive Director Barry Meldrum, met with the collection team in the museum collections area office bay, to discuss topics related to collections care, preservation of artifacts, new museum building use, move planning and new exhibit ideas for the new museum. The plan going forward is to have more […]
Meet Barry Meldrum – PNWNAM New Executive Director
This is Barry Meldrum! He is the New Executive Director of the Pacific Northwest Naval Air Museum. Come down to the museum and welcome him.
Happy Veteran’s Day
For those who have served, and those who still do, THANK YOU! From the Pacific Northwest Naval Air Museum. We appreciate and honor you.
Message from the President
Shifting from the rearview mirror to the road ahead! With the vaccine rollouts, there is finally reason for optimism. A challenging year still lies ahead. It will demand of us the same adaptability, perseverance and generosity that stood us well last year.
After three months, the museum’s doors opened again on 17 February. While visitor counts are relatively low, […]
First Visitors IN 2021
Caption: Welcome! Our first three first visitors at our reopening on February 17, 2021!!!
Pictured are Bruce, Mary and Ben Guenzel from Woodinville, WA. (Photo by George Love)
Clayton Hively
Museum volunteer Clayton Hively catches up on some off-season maintenance on the Museum’s Nimitz-Class parade aircraft carrier. This is quite an undertaking and anyone with wood building skills is invited to join us as a volunteer to help complete the project. (Photo by George Love)
Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) History
BASE REALIGNMENT AND CLOSURE
By CW4 Michael M. Alberich, US Army (Retired)
This series of articles, covering the history of the BRAC in general and BRAC as it affected selected bases and NAS Whidbey in the past, will be issued over the 2021 CAT-CHAT publications in remembrance of the 1991 round of BRAC in […]
President’s Corner
2020 in the rearview mirror! For most of us it is a good thing. 2020 was a tough, challenging year that brought out some of the best in people, including adaptability, generosity and perseverance.
Washington State closed museums from March through June and again from mid-November to early January 2021. A “new normal” was needed to keep the museum […]
Chairman’s Report
The Holiday Season: Christmas, New Year’s, Kwanzaa, et al, are completed and now, onward to a new year, new adventures and responsibilities.
COVID-19 is still with us, which is where the ‘responsibilities’ part comes in. Washington State Gov. Jay Islee is slow/cautious to re-open shuttered businesses. Depending on such variables as vaccines and treatments, small businesses, like our very […]
