The Golden Wings Flying Museum was an aviation museum located in

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History

The museum was founded in 1996 by Greg Herrick in a former

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hangar. In 1997, Greg Herrick began a campaign to force the

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to make the blueprints of historic aircraft available to the public. This led to a lawsuit in 1999 that eventually resulted in the "Herrick Amendment" being passed as part of the FAA Air Transportation Modernization and Safety Improvement Act in 2012. The collection was put up for sale in 2015.

Collection

Aircraft formerly on display

Aerocar Aerocar International's Aerocar (often called the Taylor Aerocar) was an American roadable aircraft designed and built by Moulton Taylor in Longview, Washington in 1949. Although six examples were made, it never entered large-scale production. I ...

Aeronca C-3 The Aeronca C-3 was a light plane built by the Aeronca Aircraft, Aeronautical Corporation of America in the United States during the 1930s. Design and development Its design was derived from the Aeronca C-2. Introduced in 1931 in aviation, 1931, ...

* Alliance A-1 Argo * Arrow Sport M *

Avro Avian The Avro Avian was a series of British light aircraft designed and built by Avro in the 1920s and 1930s. While the various versions of the Avian were sound aircraft, they were comprehensively outsold by the de Havilland Moth and its descendants ...

Boeing Stearman The Stearman (Boeing) Model 75 is a biplane formerly used as a military trainer aircraft, of which at least 10,626 were built in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. Stearman Aircraft became a subsidiary of Boeing in 1934. Widely kno ...

* Buhl Sport Airsedan * Bushmaster 2000 *

Cunningham-Hall PT-6 The Cunningham-Hall Model PT-6 was an American six-seat cabin biplane aircraft of the late 1920s and was the first design of the Cunningham-Hall Aircraft Corporation of Rochester, New York. Development and design The Cunningham-Hall Aircraft Co ...

* Fairchild FC-2W-2 * Fairchild PT-19A * Fairchild PT-23 * Fairchild PT-26 * Fairchild PT-26 *

Fleetwings Seabird The Fleetwings Sea Bird (or Seabird) was an American-built amphibious aircraft of the 1930s. Design and production The Sea Bird was an amphibious utility aircraft designed in 1934–1935 by James C. Reddig for Fleetwings, Inc., of Bristol, Penns ...

* Ford 4-AT-A Trimotor * Interstate S-1A Cadet *

Kreutzer K-5 Air Coach The Kreutzer Air Coach is an American-built light trimotor transport aircraft of the late 1920s. Design and development Joseph Kreutzer formed the company of the same name in Los Angeles in late 1928. In 1929 the firm moved to Clover Field, San ...

Paramount Cabinaire The Paramount Cabinaire was a 1920s designed cabin biplane, designed by Walter J. Carr and produced by the Paramount Aircraft Corporation. Only eight were completed before production ceased. Design and development Following the failure of Walter ...

Stearman C3B Stearman is a surname. Notable people with the name include: * Lloyd Stearman (1898–1975), American aviation pioneer * Richard Stearman (born 1987), English footballer * William Stearman (1813–1846) English cricketer * William L. Stearman (b ...

* Stearman Model 6 Cloudboy * Stinson SM-6000-A Airliner * Stinson SM-6000-B Airliner * Travel Air 6000-A * Waco CUC-1

Aircraft formerly under restoration

* Bellanca 31-42 Senior Pacemaker * Call-Air A-2 *

Curtiss Fledgling The Curtiss Fledgling, known internally to Curtiss as the Model 48 and Model 51 was a trainer aircraft developed for the United States Navy in the late 1920s and known in that service as the N2C. Design and development The Fledgling was designe ...

Fairchild 45 The Fairchild Model 45 was a 1930s American five-seat cabin monoplane aircraft designed and built by Fairchild. Development During 1934 the Fairchild company designed a business or executive aircraft with five seats, designated the Model 45. It ...

* Fairchild 22 C7D * Fairchild KR-34C * Frankfort TG-1A * Keystone-Loening K-84 *

Spartan C2-60 The Spartan C2 is a light aircraft produced in the United States in the early 1930s as a low-cost sport machine that would sell during the Great Depression. Design and development The C2 is a conventional, low-wing monoplane design with two seat ...

Stinson SM-1 Detroiter The Stinson Detroiter was a six-seat cabin airliner for passengers or freight designed and built by the Stinson Aircraft Syndicate, later the ''Stinson Aircraft Corporation''. Two distinct designs used the Detroiter name, a biplane and a monopla ...

* Stinson SM-7A

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