The 20,000 sq. ft. WW II wing allows visitors to experience the 1940's through thousands of personal collections and memorabilia, airplanes, trucks, engines and equipment that was used during the war years.

It was a war that had a beginning, a known enemy, and an ending.

Wander the display area while listening to the music of the era or watching a film in the little theater area. This is the only museum in the Northwest that has such a large collection of personal stories and memorabilia to tell the stories of self-sacrifice, braver, and patriotism.

Visitors then enter the next 20,000 sq. ft. Cold War Era wing through the Berlin Wall into the 1950's and 1960's, and are immediately surrounded by music of the era. People will experience the era of jet technology, the build-up of Communism and U.S. Civil Defense.

The Korean and Vietnam Wars are experienced through personal collections, artifacts, a Huey helicopter, F-86 Sabre Jet, MiG-17 Russian fighter, and a rare collection of early jet engine cut-a-way engines. The advent of television and the Race to Space dominated the home front.

Check out our website: www.warhawkairmuseum.org and look at the face page for daily updates.
The museum is located at Nampa, Ida. Municipal Airport, 201 Municipal Dr., (208) 465-6446.

Open Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., closed Mondays.

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In 2011, NBAA will hold Regional Forums in:

February 17: Boca Raton, FL
Host FBO: Avitat Boca Raton, Boca Raton Airport (BCT)

April 14: Dallas, TX
Host FBO: Business Jet Service, Dallas Love Field Airport (DAL)

June 8: White Plains, NY
Host FBO: Panorama Flight Service, Westchester County Airport (HPN)

July 14: San Jose, CA
Host FBO: Atlantic Aviation and ACM Aviation, San Jose International Airport (SJC)

NBAA's Business Aviation Regional Forums are day-long learning and peer-networking venues designed to meet the needs of regional business aviation communities, and to provide an introduction to local leaders interested in learning more about the industry, a spokesman said.

"The Forums also allow for two-way discussions of issues confronting NBAA members at the local level such as airport policies, city council ordinances and proposals from state legislatures that impact flight operations," the spokesman said. "They also play a role in educating local operators and businesses about ways they can make their voices heard on such issues to elected officials."

Each Regional Forum features dozens of industry exhibitors, a static display of aircraft and education sessions. For more information, see www.nbaa.org/events/forums.

“The fundamental distinctions between public use airports ... and private airports have begun to blur,” Catherine Lang, the FAA’s associate administrator for airports, told a hearing of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee last month, the Associated Press reported.

Federal officials say that so-called “hangar homes” can endanger safety and limit the ability of airports to expand and could be a misuse of government money. Agreements allowing private plane owners with hangar homes to taxi directly from their property onto airport tarmacs risk turning government investments into private perks, Lang said.

FAA officials have said they have no problem with private airparks that have similar access agreements with homeowners because those airparks don’t receive federal dollars, the AP said.
“But publicly owned airports usually rely on the $3.5 billion in grants the FAA makes annually to airports to help pay for new runways, safety equipment and other improvements,” the wire service reported.

FAA CUTS GRANTS

Earlier this month, the FAA updated a policy proposal that grants be cut off to public airports that enter into new agreements. The agency is also looking at whether the existing agreements with homeowners and developers at 72 public airports conflict with the promises the airports made when they accepted government money.

Even if such arrangements are working today, that doesn’t mean they’ll continue to work years or decades from now, Lang said. Experience has shown that close proximity of homes to an airport is often an insurmountable obstacle to airport expansion, she said.

The proposal has drawn fire from homeowners, the EAA and their congressional supporters who say the problems have been overblown. Access fees from such arrangements, they say, help airports raise money.

Having homeowners nearby also adds an extra layer of security, especially at night when airports are closed, they say.

LEAVE IT TO THE LOCALS

The committee is considering a bill by Rep. Sam Graves, R-Mo., to allow airports to continue to enter into new through-the-fence agreements, the AP reported.

“It should be up to the local community and municipality to make that decision,” Graves said. “If they don't like them, they don’t have to have them.”

Problems have included pets, people and private vehicles - including golf carts - wandering through fence openings onto airport tarmacs, including taxiways.

Carol Comer, the Georgia Department of Transportation aviation manager, told the committee a proposed through-the-fence agreement in her state initially called for homes with landscaping that included a significant “water feature” that would have attracted birds.

FAA has spent millions of dollars helping airports eliminate ponds, vegetation and other features that attract wildlife, in an effort to reduce collisions between planes and birds.