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Volume 10, Issue 5

October 2006

President’s Message 2

Challenger Learning Center 3

Incidentals From the Museum 4

PAM Starts Strategic Planning 5

Goodyear Blimp Visits Bloomington-Normal 6

News and Views from Flight Operations 7

Aviation Briefs 12

Upcoming Events 11

Talking Restoration 8

Accession/Deaccession—What Do These Words Mean 9

DC-3 Engine Challenge 10

Inside this issue:

In the movie Apollo XIII, actor Tom Hanks repeated the words of Com-mander Jim Lovell. During the flight to the moon on April 13, 1970, an explo-sion in the space-craft changed the mission to one of

survival as Astronaut Lovell transmitted, “Houston, we have a problem”.

The Museum has been in business for 25 years, the DC-3 has been fly-ing since 1985. As we analyze the current economics of our Challenger Learning Center program, “we have a problem”.

A $1 million 5 year loan through a State of Illinois program and Bank of Illinois was instrumental in the CLC start-up. The loan interest rate has now moved from 4% to 6%, or from a monthly $6,600 to $8,800.

The rental of airport property to house the CLC has moved in 2 years from a monthly beginning of $3,253 to a cur-rent $3,451. This $198 per month increase is a result of a clause in our contract signed with the Airport Au-thority. The monthly rental rate will increase 3% each year forever. It is also to be recognized that utilities are included in the rental fees.

Prior to these increases, a cost analy-sis had been accomplished. All ex-penses allocated to the CLC division of the Museum on the basis of 300 school classes (maximum capacity) per year was $1,100 per class. Cost to the school is $600 per class.

Other comparisons: Current rent - $3500 x 12 = $ 42,000 Current interest - $8800 x 12 = $105,600

Total = $147,600

vs. 200 classes x $600 = $120,000 in-come vs. 250 classes x $600 = $150,000 in-come vs. 300 classes x $600 = $180,000 in-come

It is evident there is more work to be done. Other sources of income con-tinue to be necessary, Grants, pledges (personal, business, local government), fund raising events, and capital campaigning are neces-sary to keep this dream alive benefit-ing the education of 5th through 8th grade students, the achievers of the future. We continue the legacy of the Prairie Aviation Museum – Building For Tomorrow.

Busch Family DC-3 Matching Funds Campaign Bob Davis, Director of Flight Opera-tions, has announced August Busch III and his son Steven have devel-oped a program to assist with the needs of our DC-3. It was their $10,000 donation that made possible the purchase and installation of a high time engine. This enabled the airplane to attend a Labor Day week-end County Fair and Air Show in St. Louis, followed by a stop in Wauke-gan and then a weekend in Racine, WI. All stops produced very impres-sive income numbers. In fact, some was loaned to CLC operations to cover certain summer expenses.

The goal is to eventually install a new $65,000 engine. The campaign be-gins now. As donations are given to the engine fund, the donor will re-ceive a 501(c)3 tax deduction letter. A copy will be sent to the August Busch III Trust Fund – PAM Matching Program. Funds will be placed in a Museum engine reserve.

State Farm Employees/Retirees

Don’t forget the Good Neighbor Grant program. Forty volunteer hours for PAM qualifies for a $500 donation to the Museum. We have forms if you do not download from the State Farm website or do not want to stop by the company’s offices.

Yours Sincerely Norm Wingler President, Founder, and member of the Illinois Aviation Hall of Fame

Prairie Aviation Museum P. O. Box 856

Bloomington, IL 61702 2929 East Empire

Phone (309) 663-7632 Fax (309) 663-8411

E-mail [email protected]

Web www.prairieaviationmuseum.org

Challenger Learning Center Phone (309) 661-1621

President: Norm Wingler Vice-President: Fran Romine Treasurer: Ron Blue Secretary: Diane Schwelle

Directors At Large: Ben Clawson Gary Taylor Earl Kingman Cathy Bissoondial Dave Smith Laurie Wollrab Director Emeritus — John Percy

Janet Moore, CLC Flight Director Stacey Shrewsbury, CLC Asst.

Flight Director Karen Carroll, Office Asst.

Fran Romine & Sally McMullen Volunteer Coordinators

Bob Davis Director of Flight Operations

Dennis Beard DC-3 Crew Chief

Loren Winkleman Chief — Aircraft Maintenance

Pat Riccolo President, Soaring Cobras

Ron Blue Logbook Editor

Frank Thompson Museum Curator

John Ohler Restoration Coordinator

Joanne Ohler Membership Chair

Fran Romine Tour Director

Asst. — Cathy Bissoondial

Brenda Koehler Media/Public Relations Specialist

Brad Zipprich & Pete Moore Webmasters

Asst. Treasurer — Janet Blue

President’s Column — Norm Wingler

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President Norm Wingler

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The Challenger Learning Center’s 3rd Annual Family Science Day (FSD) was held on Sunday, Sep-tember 24 at the Illinois State Uni-versity Bone Student Center and drew an attendance of more than 650 people. This year’s event in-cluded over 70 hands-on exhibits, and several special events: ISU Planetarium shows, Good Movie/ Bad Science presentations and presentations by former astronaut Rick Hieb and lead electrical engi-neer for NASA Glenn Research Center Bill Camperchioli.

Students visiting the exhibit hall participated in a broad range of sci-ence activities provided by local businesses and organizations: U of I Extension, Central Illinois Radio Club, Children’s Discovery Mu-seum, Girls Scouts, Twin City Ama-teur Astronomers, Hobbytown USA, State Farm Disaster Team, Bremer Jewelry, Expanding Your Horizon, ISU – Geology Club, Physics Club, PRISM Fellows, Chemistry Club, Speech Pathology & Audiology, and Health Sciences Dept, Heartland Physics Dept. and IWU Society of Physics Students.

This year’s FSD sponsors included Lockheed Martin, Ron Smith Print-

ing, Busey Bank, CEFCU, BOB & Magic Radio, Verizon, Corn Belt Energy, Space Camp, Avanti’s, Leighton & Mobley, Wm. Masters Inc., Farnsworth Group, Carl’s Ice Cream, Sulaski & Webb, Eastland Suites, and CJ’s Restaurant.

Family Science Day — Stacey Shrewsbury

Incidentals from the Museum

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Treasurer’s Report

Profit and Loss September 2006

Ordinary Income/Expenses

Total Income $ 346,655.07 Total Expenses $ 410,271.21

Net Income $ -63,616.14

Balance Sheet as of Sept. 30, 2006

Assets

Total Current Assets $ 38,687.91 Total Fixed Assets $ 156,230.00 Total Other Assets $ 1,230,525.43 Total Assets $ 1,425,443.34

Liabilities and Equity

Total Liabilities $ 921,079.21 Total Equity $ 471,962.05 Total Liabilities & Equity $ 1,425,443.34

Financial Summary

Words of Wisdom (WOW) from Norm Wingler

• It is never to late to be what you might have been.

• The Air Force’s core values —integrity, service before self, excel-lence in all we do.

• Avoid the negative suggestions of others.

• Hardening of the attitudes is the most deadly disease on the face of the earth. Zig Ziglar

The following letter was received at the Museum in September. It is al-ways great to have validation of the good work that people do to maintain our Museum and it’s collections.

Dear Prairie Aviation Museum,

We’d like to make a monetary donation to your museum. We’ve enjoyed our trips to see the planes and helicopters and preservation of history. Youth Day is one of our favorite Saturday’s of the year. I always worry we’ll miss it since it’s a small note in The Pantagraph.

Sincerely,

Michael & Janean Baird Bloomington, IL 61704 Children – Travis (6) and Andrew (3)

Tour Guides Needed

Cathy Bissoondial has need of more tour guides for the many tours that are being scheduled for the Mu-seum. If you are interested, please call her at (309) 452-6290 or email her at [email protected]

MEET OUR INTERN: Marybeth Stotz — Fran Romine

Marybeth comes to us from Carol Stream, Illinois and is a Senior at ISU. She is working on her Bachelor of Science Degree with a Major in Mar-keting. Well-organized, and a self-starter, Marybeth is strong in team work and com-munication skills.

Marybeth is assisting me in the area of media, marketing and whatever else needs to be done. She is also available to help the Flight Directors when needed. You can find her at the Challenger Learning Center Monday and Wednesday from 3:30 until 5:00.

Stop in and Say hello.

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Over the past four weeks, a group of more than 30 indi-viduals including business leaders, PAM Board Mem-bers, youth leaders, and PAM volunteers have been a part of three strategic planning meetings to help lead Prairie Aviation Museum into the second phase of our expansion plans. (Phase One was the building of our Challenger Learning Center)

The first session was dedicated to identifying the pur-pose of the Prairie Aviation Museum. Purpose state-ments usually include two phrases: an infinitive that indicates a change in status, such as to increase, to decrease, to prevent, to eliminate; an identification of the problem or condition to be changed. Some of the Purpose Statement words talked about are: Educate, Inform, Preserve, Advocate, Outreach, Challenge, etc. Business Statement words included: Experience, In-spire, Innovate, Display, Motivate, Increase, Hands-on, Outreach, etc. Some of the Value words we talked about included: Passion/Aviation, Exploration, Learning, Teamwork, Diversity, Excellence, etc.

The second session was devoted to discuss and de-velop a Mission Statement. Using words, discussed at the first week’s session individuals submitted their ideas for a “Mission Statement”. These ideas were then dis-cussed by those present . The following was selected to be considered by the Board: “To inspire a passion for learning by preserving and showcasing contri-butions of aviation and space exploration”. Dialogue followed about perceptions, as-sets and strengths and challenges and obsta-cles. Some of the Per-ceptions, Assets, and Strengths mentioned were: History and Continuity, Media Sup-port, Members/ Volun-teers/People, Good Reputation, Accessibil-ity, High Quality Staff, and Diversity of Experi-ence. Some of the Challenges and Obsta-cles are: Marketing, Lack of Interactive Ex-hibits, Exhibit Space, Signage, Spread Out, Lack of Personnel, Competition, etc.

The Third Session was

devoted to developing Strategic Goals and Objects to help complete the development of a Strategic Planning Document. The evening was devoted to discussing 5 areas (or divisions) of Prairie Aviation Museum: The Museum, DC-3, Challenger Learning Center, Soaring Cobras, and Other. A lot of goals were mentioned such as: Retire Debt, to become the Premier Aviation Mu-seum in the Midwest, Increase Membership and Volun-teer Base, Consolidate Programming Events, To Pro-vide a Home for the DC-3 with an Area for Restoration, Increase Awareness, and Promote CLC Programming. These are just a few of the suggestions for goals and objectives.

Our next step is to put together some focus groups and other committees to see how we can obtain these goals and objectives; and put together a new business plan to help us succeed in our endeavors. We will keep you informed of our progress.

PAM Starts Strategic Planning — Fran Romine

PAM’s airpark during the recent Open Cockpit Day. Over 200 visitors toured the airpark and participated in the events of the day.

The Museum would like to thank Marty Vonags, Ex-ecutive Director of the Economic Development Council for leading this effort for us. Volunteering his time has helped make these sessions very pro-ductive.

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The following story appeared in the Pantagraph on September 25.

BLOOMINGTON -- Any football fans with a Monday morning hangover could be forgiven if they thought they were seeing things up in the sky - but they weren’t. That actually was the Goodyear Blimp rising up from the Central Illinois Regional Airport Monday morning. The helium-filled airship, Spirit of Goodyear, made an overnight stop for fuel and lodging here Sunday after flying over the Ohio State-Penn State college football game in Co-lumbus, Ohio Saturday afternoon. The blimp landed at CIRA around 7:45 p.m. Sunday and left around 9:30 a.m. Monday morning, en route to a Goodyear dealers appearance in Jefferson, Iowa. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company operates a fleet of three blimps, in-cluding the Akron, Ohio-based Spirit of Goodyear, the Star & Stripes, based in Pompano Beach, Fla., and the Spirit of America, based in Car-son, Calif. Each blimp is 197 feet long, 59 1/2 feet tall and 50 feet wide and a maximum weight of more than six tons. The ships, which have a top speed of 50 miles per hour and a cruising speed of 30 mph, can hold up to six passengers and a pilot and are sup-ported by a ground crew of 16 peo-ple. The crew travels in an accompany-ing 18-wheeler, bus and utility van.

Goodyear Blimp Visits Bloomington-Normal

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Charles Dickens opening lines from his classic book, Tale of Two Cities, “IT WAS THE BEST OF TIMES- IT WAS THE WORST OF TIMES “, is a accurate description of operating our DC-3 this year. We traveled to the St. Louis, MO, Spirit of St. Louis airport on. June 1 to hold a com-plete DC-3 ground school and flight training for August Busch,III, his son Steve, Anheuser-Busch Chief Pilot, Carl Henke and Gerry Molidor. The ground school and flight training led to successful check rides, for DC-3 type ratings, which now allow them to function as Pilot in Command on DC-3 type aircraft. How the Prairie Aviation Museum Flight Operations Department came to be chosen is quite a story by itself, I do know that we, as a organization, were evalu-ated, along with others and we were chosen!!!!

The Busch group was extremely well prepared, manuals were sent prior to our arrival and it was clear from the start of training that all had studied and were well prepared for our school. We were given VIP treatment, including an aviation play day, BUT, before you think this was a vacation, our day would start at 6 to 6:30 AM and usually ended after 7 PM. This was a unique, rewarding experience and only made possible by Instructor’s Jim Rosater, John Whitney, executive assistant Mich-ele Buchenot [the real person in charge] and PAM pilot Chuck Mid-yett. We all contribute to PAM in many ways but this group was over the top. Could not have done the job without them. This resulted in a ma-jor financial boost to the DC-3 bot-tom line and for the first time in many months, we were in the black. Obviously, this was the BEST OF TIMES.

Training which can lead to a DC-3 type rating is becoming a larger part of revenues generated by PAM flight operations. Two pilots from the CAF group, based in Riverside, CA came to Bloomington on July 16 for

DC-3 type ratings. Their unit is just starting operation with a DC-3/C-47 aircraft and picked PAM because of our tightly structured training syllabus and operating procedures. Training was uneventful with both pilots well prepared to complete their check rides. We had just completed the last approach required for the first pilot when we experienced engine prob-lems with the right engine. Ground checking found a broken connecting

rod, which required an engine change because of damage to the crankcase.

The WORST OF TIMES was now starting. An overhauled engine would cost in the area of $60,000 but the most pressing problem would be ful-filling our contractual commitments for the 2006 season. August Busch III and his son Stevan, immediately stepped forward and offered to help. A long time friend and supporter of PAM, Randy Meyers, Maintenance Director of Basler Turbo-Prop Con-versions was able to offer a used en-gine from a operating airplane at a bargain basement price. The time crunch to pick up the engine, deliver to Bloomington and install on N 763 A before the St. Louis County Fair and Air Show resulted in a test flight the

day before our required arrival. The test flight was routine with the new engine, to us, operating perfectly. It took a lot of planning, work and a refusal to accept anything but suc-cess to get our DC-3 flying again. One example would be Loren Winkelman, he left Bloomington at 2:00 AM, towing a trailer, and ar-rived in Oshkosh at 8:00 AM to pick up the engine. Lorne was back on the road by 9:00 AM for the trip

back to Bloom-ington. The engine was installed and running in a few days, weather delay-ing the test flight. PAM is so fortunate to have friends and supporters like Lorne. The St. Louis County Fair and Air Show was quite suc-cessful finan-cially and we hope to return next year.

The adage, “ you always get what you pay for “, is certainly true re-garding the engine we purchased from Basler Turbo Conversions. The price was a bargain but it is a high time engine, 1400 hours, we hope to get at least 2 years operation be-fore it must be replaced. A matching funds program is being formulated to establish an engine overhaul fund to overhaul the failed engine. As soon as it is finalized we will publish the details.

Our roller coaster year has been difficult for all. It does illustrate that the character of PAM and the re-fusal to be defeated can overcome adversity.

See you next issue.

News & Views From Flight Operations — Bob Davis

Part of the DC-3 Flight Crew in St. Louis. The Museum thanks all who have helped with this year’s Air Show schedule.

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The last open cockpit day was held on August 20th, 2006. This was also the formal introduction of our F-14 Tomcat to the visiting public. The attendance this day was the largest, for this type event, that our Museum has had. Mother nature was really on our side with great weather that helped bring in 273 visitors. Thanks to many of the resto-ration crew mem-bers and some of their spouses that helped make this day very success-ful.

We are continuing to work in the air-park to get as much work completed before cold weather will bring our

outdoor work to a halt. We have been working on the Tomcat for many weeks to close it up as much as we can to keep the birds from claiming it as their hotel. This also brings us into compliance with our contractual agreement with Pensa-cola. If you have looked at the Tom-cat engine openings, you would have seen a wide-open tunnel from the engine removal. Today if you look into the same area you will notice replicas of the engine turbines that now cover the openings at both ends. These were duplicated from

Let’s Talk Restoration — John Ohler

pictures taken during the demilitari-zation process last April.

The restoration team has an ongoing list of projects that can keep us busy

for a long time. If you want to get your hands dirty, you may join us in

getting some of these tasks completed.

The Friday prior to our last open cockpit day, August 18th, the Mu-seum was flooded due to the heavy rains. This was the worst condition that I have ever seen in the past five years. That Saturday morning and the day before the event we started

cleaning up a very nasty prob-lem. The Sunday event was not going to be can-celled if we could at all help it. With the help of some of the restoration crew members and a cleanup contractor, we were able to get the museum wa-ter problem picked up and

installed many air dryers to help restore the museum for use. I wish to thank David Wilson, Pete Troesch, Frank Thompson, Dale Marten and Brad Zipprich in help-ing to clear up this mess and have the area ready for the event.

A team effort in restoration comes not just from within but also from outside of our museum. Our T-38A Talon has been in need of a re-placement front landing gear tire for some time. Checking tire avail-ability through Image Air, we find that the Lear Jet uses the same size tire on the front landing gear. Image Air (FBO) changes tires on aircraft and we were able to obtain this size tire to repair out T-38. A few hours of work cleaning / paint-ing up the rim and mounting the replacement tire, our aircraft now sports a new look on the front land-ing gear. Thanks to Image Air for their continued support to our air-craft restoration.

I also wish to thank Jason Winkel-mann, of Loravco Services, for the use of their welder to make very crucial repairs to the viewing stand at our T-38. These repairs were noted as a safety issue from the museum’s insurance carrier and vital for the safety of our young Museum visitors.

T-38

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A special thanks to the following individuals for donating items to the Museum. Without your help we could not preserve and display the history of air travel.

If you have anything to donate to the Museum, please feel free to call (309) 663-7632 or bring it out. We don’t want to lose our history.

David R. Gault (Lt.Col) Verona, WI

Fatigue outfit ca. Iraq/Kuwait

Richard Wright Normal

Propeller Timing device, ca WWII

Paul Moore Peoria

Magazine; Flight Journal June, 2006

Dennis Hall East Peoria

Deck of cards; Continental Airline logo

Jerry Boyer East Peoria

Numerous aviation items to include tech manuals, uniform items, flight suit and g-suit

Wayne Zook Normal

Booklet about Operation The Ben-dix Chin Turret....ca 1940's.

There comes a time in every mu-seum’s history whereby these two words have a real impact on the arti-facts that are housed there. Often it is asked of a museum, “What is it that you collect?” What does accession-ing and deaccessioning have to do with the whole process? The follow-ing is a brief discussion of some of the aspects of accessioning and deaccessioning.

Accessioning is the legal method by which museums accept artifacts into their collection. Let’s say the John Doe brings in an Air Force uniform, two books on aircraft, and four air-lines postcards. We then go to the gift binder and take and fill-out the Gift Agreement form (aka accession form) and ask the donator along with a museum representative to fill it out and sign it. At that point, those items now legally belong to the Museum. They have been accessioned and are considered part of the collection. That gift form will then be assigned a num-ber and at some point each item on that form will receive an individual number that will include the acces-sion number plus other numbers, too. Oh by the way, even if it were only one item, that still would be an acces-sion.

Deaccessioning is the method by which artifacts are permanently re-moved from the museum’s artifacts. Before 1987, most museum staffs would not utter the “D” word out loud. Deaccessioning was viewed by many as a breach of public trust. Do museum’s like to deaccession ob-jects? No! Deaccessioning can be arduous process. No one person’s taste decides that an object(s) will be deaccessioned. The process is not executed in a willy-nilly fashion. An object(s) must meet one or more of the following criteria, but not limited to:

• The object is not relevant to the

museum’s mission,

• The object has deteriorated beyond usefulness,

• The object is hazardous to other collections or staff,

• There are multiple examples of the same object in the collec-tion. And

• The object is wrongly attributed or fake.

Again, choices need to be made, but those choices should be made by appropriate persons in charge of the artifacts or a group thus as-signed to deaccessioning item when necessary. One must remem-ber that often objects that are deemed of no real value today may become valuable over time. Today deaccessioning is considered an integral and necessary part of re-sponsible collection management.

Just remember this. Five goals of museums are to:

1. Preserve

2. Educate

3. Research

4. Interpret

5. Collect

Please help us to meet all five of these goals. We are growing one of the finest collections in the Mid-west and only you can make this happen.

Accession/Deaccession—What Do These Words Mean — Frank Thompson

The August Busch III Foundation has established a matching funds program to help keep the DC-3 flying. The Foun-dation will match dollar for dollar every donation to the Engine Challenge Fund. Please send your donation to the Museum at the following address: Prairie Aviation Museum, 2929 E. Empire, Bloomington, IL 61704. Th tax-deductible donation letter you receive will also be sent to the Foundation and this amount will be matched and sent to the Museum. All proceeds of this challenge will be used to purchase a new engine for the DC-3.

Yes, I want to support the DC-3 Engine Challenge.

My donation is: __________________________________

Signature: ___________________________________

Address: ___________________________________

___________________________________

City: ___________________________________

State: ________________

DC-3 Engine Challenge

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Name: _____________________________

Address: ____________________________

City: ___________ State: ____ Zip: _____

Phone: (_____) _____ — _______________

E-mail address: _______________________

I would like to contribute $____________

Memorial (Please state name and if applicable, aviation or space affiliation)

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Membership Application If you know of someone who might want to join the Prairie Aviation Museum, share this newsletter with them and ask them to fill out the membership application (or if you would like to donate or give a memorial), then return it to the Museum or send it to: Joanne Ohler, PO Box 856, Bloomington, IL 61702. Members are the heart and soul of the Museum and you can help by growing our base of members.

Volunteers are the backbone of the Museum. I would like to volunteer some of my spare time to Museum projects Please Enroll Me As A Member In The Following Classification

Individual Member $30

Sustaining $50

Benefactor $100

Regular Life $500

Patron Life $1000

Youth (under age 18) (One-Half of Above Fee Schedule)

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Fly-in/Drive-in Chili/Vegetable Soup lunch — 11-2

Homeschool Rocket Class — CLC SCI-LAB/Science and a Story (Mealworms) Haunted Mission — CLC Parent/Child Class — CLC

November 2006

11 SCI-LAB/Science and a Story (Simple Ma-chines)

December 2006

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Christmas Open House — Noon to 4 p.m.

SCI-LAB/Science and a Story (Light) Member/Volunteer Christmas Party —

Upcoming Events Welcome to Our New Members — Joanne Ohler

Please welcome our newest members to the Museum:

Shayne McIlvoy Normal, IL 61761

Jon Curtis Bloomington, IL 61701

Susie Curtis Bloomington, IL 61701

John D. Flaherty Manchester, MO 63011

Alan B. Hoffman Kirkwood, MO 63122

Remember, new members are the life-blood of our organization. Encourage all your friends to join and become a part of all the fun.

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Dave Smith — Board Member of the Prairie Aviation Museum points out parts of the Goodyear Blimp on the blimp trailer.

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