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The Indiana Aviation Hall of Fame was
recently completed and is on display at the museum.
This is the actual Bakalar Air Force Base
Officers Club price list circa late 1960's that was recently donated to the
museum. This project took only a little cleaning and straightening and is now on
gallery display.
Building T112 Base Security Gate
This completed project is
a scale diorama of the air base front gate as it was in the late 1950's with the
guard house, road, and C-47 aircraft at the entrance. This display is on
display in the museum gallery.
Building T-112 as it appeared in the 1960's
The museum staff completed a
B-17 Bomber Group miniature diorama which is on display.
Museum Volunteers Wendell Ross
and Bruce Dalton receiving a $5000 check from Dan Arnholt and
Lyn Morgan (Lyn not pictured) of the Heritage Fund of Bartholomew
County, Inc. for the new museum sound system.
Without the support of the community, many museum projects would not be
possible.
Bob Henry Museum Director
Museum Volunteers Glenn Grube, Museum
Director, Bob Henry, Glenn Leonhart and Tom Vickers
Do you want to be a Museum Volunteer?
Are you interested in becoming an Atterbury-Bakalar
Air Museum Volunteer? Contact the museum. Phone (812) 372-4356 or write:
Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum
Attn: Bob Henry, Museum Director
4742 Ray Boll Boulevard
Columbus, IN 47203
Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum License
Plate available for sale at the Museum as well as, 71st Special Operations
Squadron License Plane, museum coffee mugs and caps and books.
The Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum is currently working
on a number of projects. For more information click on the topics buttons on the
left side of the screen. As with all our projects and events the work is done by
the museum volunteers. The display items and funding is by donation. The
Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum is a not for profit organization.
If you have the time, talent or desire to help with any
of these projects, contact the museum. We are always searching for memorabilia for the museum. If you have photographs, equipment, parts, or any
thing related
to the former Atterbury Army Air Field/Bakalar Air Force Base and wish to donate to the museum, please contact us.
The Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum
Volunteers at work on museum projects. In the first photo museum volunteers
L to R Jim Porter, Bruce Dalton, John Walter, Phil Bender and John
Hodel work on a Plexiglas heat box. In the middle photo Joe Grube
works on another Wright Flyer model. This is a smaller flying model (we
hope). Phil Bender installs newly formed Plexiglas window in the CG-4A
Glider nose. Museum Director, Bob Henry, Bob McCubbin and John
Walter level the stone marker honoring Lt. John Bakalar after which
the former air base was renamed. The marker sat near the control tower for many
years and was moved to the museum entrance. After lifting it out of it was found
to be cut at an angle and had been imbedded in the soil to level it. Concrete
was poured under the marker to keep it on the level in it's current location.
Museum volunteers Bob Goedl, John Hodel
and Jim Porter work on the frames for the Century of Flight Timeline
display that is in the museum gallery. Glen Leonheart working
on the panel one area where the timeline starts with the Wright Flyer.
Photos of the completed Timeline.
Jim Porter paints some of the Century
of Flight Timeline panels. John Walter holds one of the supports and Bob
McCubbin fastens the top brackets that will hold the panels.
View these one of a kind scale
aircraft on gallery display at the Atterbury-Bakalar Air Museum built by the
skilled craftsmen, Joe and Glenn Grube and painted by Charles Abbott.
Glenn, Charles and Joe
Wright Flyer, L-4 Grasshopper, B-24J
Liberator Bomber, CG-4A Glider, P-51D Mustang Fighter and P-47D Thunderbolt
Fighter
B-25 Mitchell Bomber, B-17G Flying
Fortress Bomber, C-119G Flying Boxcar Transport, C-47 Gooney Bird Transport,
C-46 Commando Transport and a real McDonnell Douglas F-4C Phantom II Jet Fighter
on permanent display in front of the museum on Bakalar Green. The museum has in
the work area this Army Air Corps 1941 TG2 Glider.
This concept depiction is of the
museum expansion project which would triple the size of the museum allowing more
artifacts to be featured, many of which are now in storage due to lack of
gallery area. This will also allow the hanging display of the full size 1941 TG2
Army Air Corps Glider.
