The Hagerstown Aviation Museum recently announced the donations of two aviation history collections that will approximately double the museum's collection. Local aviation historian and author Kent Mitchell donated an extensive archive that includes several thousand photographs, thousands of pieces of correspondence, ephemera, and artifacts related to Fairchild Aircraft
, Kreider-Reisner Aircraft, Henson Aviation and the Hagerstown Airport from 1929 to the present.
In addition, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum donated about 5,000 promotional photographs from Fairchild Aircraft and an extensive collection of early corporate publications.
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Source: Picket News
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