Looking back to 2021, when grandson Jake took a number of photos at Heritage Flight Museum including these great shots of vintage aircraft “Hog Wild Gunner.” As noted in graphic, the museum’s 2024 Fly Day schedule is pending. Can’t wait …
It is always exciting to see the Anders Men — (Maj. Gen. Bill Anders, Lt. Col. Greg Anders and Alan Anders — take to the skies for Fly Day performances at Heritage Flight Museum (HFM) in Burlington. One-time NASA astronaut Bill Anders (Apollo 8) and his wife Valerie founded the HFM in Bellingham in 1996, […]
With the end of Fly Day flights, audience members at the Heritage Flight Museum were invited to take a closer look at vintage aircraft. The ropes came down, cameras came out … and memories were made. Saturday, June 17, 2023.
It was the night before Christmas in 1968 when the Apollo 8 astronauts beamed back a message for “the good Earth” while circling the moon. NASA Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders became the first to orbit the moon on Dec. 24, 1968. NASA managers had told the Apollo 8 astronauts […]
Former astronaut Bill Anders, founder of the Heritage Museum of Flight in Burlington, was recently honored with the National Air and Space Museum’s Michael Collins Trophy for Lifetime Achievement. The museum reports that the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum awards its Michael Collins Trophy annually “for lifetime and current achievements in aerospace science and […]
Heritage Flight Museum was founded in 1996 by William “Bill” and Valerie Anders. The museum’s vintage aircraft collection began with the P-51 Mustang “Val-Halla” and has steadily grown. In 2014, HFM moved to Skagit Regional Airport in Burlington, Washington. The museum currently houses 15 aircraft, several antique military vehicles, a library and many artifacts donated […]
Anacortes was well represented among those gathered at the July 23 Fly Day at Heritage Flight Museum. Pictured here is a formation of vintage aircraft flown by former astronaut Bill Anders and his sons, Greg and Alan. Also pictured with Alan (left) outside a hangar are Anacortes Mayor Matt Miller (center) and ex-Navy man Ernie […]
An exciting kickoff Fly Day at Heritage Flight Museum in Bayview. On hand for flights in the vintage aircraft were retired military pilot and NASA astronaut Bill Anders, founder of the world class museum. Flying with him are his sons, Greg and Alan Anders (plus Craig Nelson). See the museum website for details, including information […]
Oh, what a day! Skagit County’s Heritage Flight Museum team closed the 2021 season in style Saturday, September 18 with vintage aircraft flight demonstrations set against blue skies and massive cumulus clouds. Demonstrations ranged from single ship fighter to a 4-plane formation of T-6s, including a “missing man” formation. There were also static displays and […]
Between rains, the Heritage Flight Museum hosted an amazing Fly Day Saturday, September 19. Among photos I collected on that afternoon was this fly-by shot of a vintage aircraft named “Hog Wild Gunner.”
Heritage Flight Museum in Burlington celebrated what may be temporary freedom from COVID-19 restrictions with a “Fly Day” that drew several hundred spectators. Among vintage aircraft that took to the air to thrill the crowd were a P-51 Mustang, a B-25, a couple of T-6 Texans, a PT-13 Stearman and an AD-4NA Skyraider. Among pilots […]