"PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOTIVE THINGS"

Article Publication Feature by staff editor Zoey Flowers on the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum, at InTown Publications-- an informative directory website focused on providing helpful information about local businesses for locals and tourists.  Go to the article: "Planes, Trains, and Automotive Things"  NAS Fort Lauderdale Museum has been featured in it!  Thank you Zoey!

Amelia Earhart Online-Only Exhibit
"Our Poetic Tribute to Amelia Earhart"

This Online-Only Exhibit was curated by NASFL Museum volunteer Lauren Crawford, a University of Florida student. The collection was Produced by Broward County, Florida Poet-in-Residence Anastasia Clark, who worked for a year bringing awareness, readings and workshops around South Florida. The collection is showcased at the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum, in Atchison, Kansas, and at other Museums and Libraries across the country, including our Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum.

The heirloom quality album features three original artworks by Shae Leighland-Pence and the works of 42 emerging and established poets with 49 poems from South Florida, California, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia and Utah. The collection was launched on April 2012 at our NASFL Museum.


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Aviator's Flight Diaries an Online-Only Exhibit

An Online-Only Exhibit focusing on a collection of Aviator's Flight Log Books. A personal look at flying diaries from naval aviators, flight officers and aircrewmen from NAS Fort Lauderdale and other Florida bases during and after World War II.

In between their worn out pages we can explore the rigorous training, their flight accomplishments, and oftentimes their personal experiences. The diaries are nondescript in appearance, with worn covers and pages. The writing lists in methodical fashion the length and type of each flight hour, yet, there is much more to these Aviator Flight Log Books: you'll be able to sense the individual stories of young and seasoned men at war. This exhibit was curated by volunteer Lauren Crawford, a University of Florida student.

In each of the Aviators Flight Log Books are columns for Date, Type of Machine, Number of Machine, Duration of Flight, Character of Flight, Pilot's name, Passengers, and Remarks. The back of the diaries have several pages for notes.

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Thank you to Nicholas Vasil, for his outstanding participation, dedication and support in helping organize the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum's exhibits. He has about 25 hours of volunteer work, and says he enjoys seeing the results. We enjoy working with you as well Nicholas!  He's a student at North East High School in Oakland Park Florida, and on weekends he volunteers at the Museum. He also attends the ROTC program because he is interested in the military. His goal is to join the U.S. Air Force. All the best Nick!

Located in the Village Community Center, the Pembroke Pines Historical Museum was established by the City of Pembroke Pines to house the collection started in 1980 by Estelle Kipnis and Gerry Witoshynsky. The Museum is under the direction of Pembroke Pines Historian Gerry Witoshynsky, a pioneer resident. The materials are available for interested residents, the general public, students, media, and researchers. Although the collection is primarily intended to preserve Pembroke Pines history, other materials of interest to the historian are also kept in the Museum.

The Museum is presenting a Continuing Exhibition of World War II and 65th Anniversary of North Perry Airport. North Perry Field was an outlying field of Miami Naval air Station in Opa Locka, Dade County. The wagon wheel layout of the field was designed to train pilots of the Grumman Wildcat planes for carrier landings. It was completed in 1943 and operated until 1945. Eventually, it was turned over to Broward County for use as a general aviation airport.

This Museum is looking for photos and stories of Pembroke Pines residents who are World War II veterans, and their families, to preserve and include in the exhibit. They are open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. Special hours may be arranged for students or group tours. Contact the Director Gerry Witoshynsky, during Museum hours at (954) 986-5049 or e-mail gerywito@comcast.net

Pembroke Pines Historical Museum
The Village Community Center
6700 SW 13th Street
Pembroke Pines, FL 33023

For more information: Visit their website

Take an exclusive virtual tour of our Online-Only Exhibits

The Disappearance of Flight 19 - Online-Only Exhibit
Our first exhibit presents artifacts and archival items in the Museum collection relating to the disappearance of Flight 19 over the Bermuda Triangle, 5 December 1945, and the investigation that followed. This exhibit features:

• Sample Documents from the Board Opinion
• Communications Logs
• Call signs
• Signed letters
• Nautical Charts & Weather Observations
  
• Naval aviation article, circa 1975
  
• Witness stories
• Sample pages from the Navy transcript
• Photographs of the Crew
• Photographs of Witness
• Aerial Photographs of the naval base
• More items will be added
  
  

This Exhibit is Password Only. Please e-mail the NASFL Museum Online Curator for your Password:
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CHECK FOR MORE ONLINE-ONLY EXHIBITS COMING SOON
Make sure to come back, as we will be adding more interesting exhibits

Naval Aviation’s Flying Diaries
An Online-Only Exhibit focusing on a collection of Aviators Flight Log Books. An interesting look at the personal flying diaries of Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale, from the years 1942 - 1946.

Flight 44
An Online-Only Exhibit focusing on young Ensign George H.W. Bush and Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale in 1943, training with Flight 44. Included in this exhibit will be his visit to the Naval Air Station in 1992.

Nose Art of World War II
An Online-Only Exhibit focusing on Nose Art. Virtual tour of images from military insignia, which were used as nose art for bombers and as unit logos. The practice evolved to express the individuality often constrained by the uniformity of the military, to evoke memories of home and peacetime life, and as a kind of psychological protection against the stresses of war and the probability of death.

The Art of Bob Jenny
An Online-Only Exhibit focusing on the art of Bob Jenny, who was a leading muralist in South Florida. His murals and paintings have been featured around the world. A prolific artist whose works often included scenes of South Florida wildlife and nature, as well as Aviation art. Jenny donated several original aviation paintings to the Naval Air Station Fort Lauderdale Museum, as well as a 25x7 mural featured on the main exhibit room. This online-only exhibit will be a virtual tour to honor his art.