Heritage in Flight

On a recent outing we were invited to come up to the Fulton County airport and visit the Heritage in Flight museum. Lil Nick, Tom Anderson and I drove down on a day that was a LOT warmer than today and were given a private tour thru the buildings and surrounding property.  It's filled with  memorabilia from the early days of aviation as well as artifacts from World Wars one, two, Korea and more. 

We saw one case after another filled with display's donated by local boys who had served with distinction and the minutiae they had collected along the way. In addition there were period vehicles on site as well as several 'warbirds' on static display including a F4B-Phantom II, a T-33A Shooting Star, an A-7E Corsair II and more. There was so much to see that I'm sure we only scratched the surface of everything this little museum has to offer.

The museum is in Lincoln, IL. at the airport and is open by appointment only. It IS handicap accessible and as an interesting side note the building itself is a former army barracks from the former Camp Ellis, a WW 2 German prisoner of war camp located between Bernadotte and Ipava. I highly recommend the museum to anyone as fascinated with aviation history as I am.