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College Park, Maryland

College Park Airport and Aviation Museum

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.
airplanes

Found, By a Danish Schoolboy: A Crashed WWII Plane in His Family's Field

As a joke, his father had suggested he look for it.
Sarah Laskow March 8, 2017
This was not the mouse.
animals

A Single Mouse Grounded a Plane in London

The obvious film-related jokes ensued.
Erik Shilling March 2, 2017
A WC-135 in air.
airplanes

Why Is an American Nuclear 'Sniffer' Plane in Europe?

It's there days after a reported "spike" in radiation on the continent.
Erik Shilling February 23, 2017
Who were Eva and Edith?
airplanes

Found: Two Mysterious Signatures on the Wing of a WWII Plane

Who were Eva and Edith?
Sarah Laskow February 2, 2017
Falcons on a plane.
animals

What Happens When 80 Falcons Fly Coach

They were probably on their way to a hunting trip.
Cara Giaimo January 31, 2017
Dodgeville, Wisconsin

C-97 Stratofreighter at the Don Q Inn

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.
Washington, D.C.

NASA Full Scale Wind Tunnel Propeller

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.
Tu-134 front.
Čačersk, Belarus

Chachersk Airplane

A decommissioned Soviet airplane has been used as a movie theater and a cultural center.
Canso Bomber Plane Crash
Tofino, British Columbia

Canso Bomber Crash Site

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.
Earhart in the cockpit of an Electra airplane.
aviation

The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart

She and her navigator disappeared nearly 80 years ago.
Erik Shilling December 12, 2016
Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade Aviation Museum

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.
airplanes

No One Seems to Know Why This Plane Kept Circling Denver

Officials couldn't say.
Sarah Laskow November 17, 2016
Tulare, California

Preston’s Pride

A B-17 bomber stands as a memorial to the residents of Tulare County who served in World War II.
Burry Port plaque
Llanelli, Wales

The Great Welsh Amelia Earhart Controversy

Where, exactly, the great aviator completed her transatlantic flight has caused some trouble in Wales.
Admiring trees in Sequoia National Park, California.
abandoned

20 Hidden Spots Inside America’s National Parks and Forests

Celebrate over a century of national parks by exploring these secret places.
Molly McBride Jacobson May 8, 2025
The mobile lounge at Dulles Airport in action, 1960s. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-krb-00774)
architecture

The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge

A high-tech room on wheels and the airport that might have been.
Veronique Greenwood July 26, 2016
mystery

The Bottomless Mystery of D.B. Cooper

Forty-four years ago, a man fell out of the sky. We may never know what happened next.
Erik Shilling July 13, 2016