So I did go home for about a week after the school semester ended, as you might have noticed from the
last post that originated in Salem. I drove back to eastern Idaho today to get ready for another semester but I decided to take my time in returning to the Ashton/Rexburg area by stopping at the
Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa, Idaho, which is a suburb that's part of the Boise-metro area. I've driven through Nampa many times to get to eastern Idaho and I've always seen signs and a billboard that pointed the museum and I figured it was about time to stop and check it out. Needless to say, it was a pleasant experience. Much like the Legacy Flight Museum, the Warhawk Air Museum is basically a large aircraft hangar and some of the planes are still airworthy. I even got exclusive access to the maintenance hangar next door where one of the museum's two P-40s was getting a landing gear leg change; this also afforded me to do take a few pictures of the general aviation ramp. The only downside to this visit is that I JUST missed the museum's rare P-51C Mustang nicknamed the 'Boise Bee'... Here are the links:
Warhawk Air Museum
Nampa (MAN) 1
Preview:
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| A replica Fokker DR-1 (DR stands for Dreidecker, or 3 wings) Triplane (N9224C) occasionally known as "The Blue Max" on display. |
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| Curtiss P-40E Kittyhawk (NX94466) nicknamed "Sneak Attack" on display. |
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| Curtiss P-40N Warhawk (NL1195N) nicknamed "Parrot Head" getting some maintenance done. |
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| Beechcraft Model H50 Twin Bonanza (N7770X) on display. The H50 model is fairly rare because only 30 airframes were ever built. |
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