Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum Updates Hangar Lighting, Prepares for Active Year

By Carmelo Turdo

The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum is preparing for an active year ahead by making physical improvements to the museum hangars while also planning for even more exciting news in the near future. Anyone visiting Creve Coeur Airport in recent days could see a kind of "musical planes" occurring in front of the museum hangars as aircraft are shifted to accommodate the crew replacing the overhead fluorescent lights with LED fixtures. Most of the rare vintage aircraft in the museum are in flying condition, and catching many of them outside, even on a cloudy day, is a real treat. 

Creve Coeur Airport has added more aviation services and community attractions in the last few years, now with three flight schools, the Gateway Youth Aeronautical Foundation, the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, maintenance facilities, flying clubs and corporate aircraft on the field. The airport is studying plans to accommodate the growing demand for additional hangar space, more educational facilities and a runway extension to serve larger aircraft. More details on the airport's expansion plans will be posted when available.

Here we feature some views of the museum aircraft being rotated as the lighting project continued this week.