Washington’s Newest Museum Sports Flyable World War II Bomber

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Rob Howatson in Transportation, Videos

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Aviation buffs alert: the Grump is home

by Rob Howatson

Snohomish County Airport’s Paine Field continues to evolve as a kind of Disneyland for aviation buffs. Located in Everett, Washington, the airport has long housed the Boeing plant tour at the Future of Flight Aviation Centre — a Science World-like attraction filled with interactive exhibits of the latest commercial jet technology. Also onsite: the Seattle Museum of Flight Restoration Centre, where vintage warbirds are prepped for display in Seattle, and which recently got new neighbours when Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen moved his collection of rare military aircraft down from Arlington. And now Historic Flight at Kilo-6 is throwing open the hangar doors on its own winged jewels, including a flyable 1944 P-51 Mustang, 1954 Canadair T-33 Silverstar and 1943 B-25 Mitchell nicknamed Grumpy.

Fly-alongs for the public available within the year.

>>Meanwhile, check out this B-25 Bellingham-to-Everett cockpit footage of Grumpy’s return home

Tags: a B-25 World War II Mitchell bomber, Aviation museums in Washington, Flights in historic planes, Grumpy, Historic B-25 Mitchell, in Washington, Snohomish County Airport's Paine Field, Snohomish County's Historic Flight Museum at Kilo-6

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The Pacific North West Rob Howatson blogs about the Pacific Northwest on MyWestworld. Rob Howatson is a freelance writer and a contributing editor for My Westworld magazine. He also writes for the Globe and Mail and Vancouver Sun newspapers, and B.C. Business and Vancouver magazines. His passions: travel, local history and arts and entertainment. Some of Rob’s memorable moments in the field include dangling from a fourth-storey balcony in Sydney, Australia (the balcony turned out to be a flimsy window box); paragliding in the B.C. Rockies; and discovering a 1950s time capsule in the wall of Vancouver’s old Sunset Community Centre just prior to the building’s demolition in 2008.

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