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 regular meetups to discuss the collection, current and future exhibits, planning for moving and ideas for the new museum.

Pictured are Barry Meldrum at the head of the table, museum Librarian Steppe Williford on the right, museum collections volunteer Bruce Roberts next, […]

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.

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)

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

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 which NAS Whidbey was placed on the BRAC list.

The Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process had its origins in the 1960s. Understanding that the Department of Defense (DOD) had to reduce its base structure that had been created during World War […]