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Visit Palmdale donates $50,000 for new air force flight test museum

by The AV Times Staff • August 10, 2023 7 Comments

[L to R] Brigadier General Matthew Higer, Flight Test Museum Director George Welsh, Museum Curator Lisa Brown, Foundation Chair Art Thompson, Visit Palmdale Chair Austin Bishop, Visit Palmdale Vice Chair Randy Miranda, Visit Palmdale Treasurer Luis Garibay, Museum Director Wanda Killam, and Chief Master Sergeant Justin Stoltzfus. [Image via Visit Palmdale.]
PALMDALE – Visit Palmdale, the new tourism entity promoting Palmdale as a destination for arts, culture, and local businesses, pledged $50,000 for the development of Edwards Air Force Base’s new Air Force Flight Test Museum.

The Air Force Flight Test Museum – the only museum in the world dedicated to flight test and flight test history – opened in 2000 with an 8,500 square foot facility. Visit Palmdale’s donation will contribute toward the development of a new, 75,000 square foot location that will be more accessible to the public and expand the museum’s Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) programming for young students.

“The new Air Force Flight Test Museum will be a publicly accessible, showstopping landmark for all who visit our community,” said Austin Bishop, Chairman of Visit Palmdale. “We are incredibly excited to support the Flight Test Museum Foundation with the development of the new location and contribute another gem to our region’s buzzworthy aerospace scene.”

The new museum will be located just outside the West Gate of Edwards Air Force Base, allowing both residents and tourists the chance to explore historical air and spacecraft and rare artifacts. The larger Air Force Flight Test Museum location will also facilitate the expansion of its STEM programming, which teaches STEM subject matter to students by using aerospace and flight test principles.

The new Air Force Flight Test Museum is currently under construction. An opening date has not yet been determined. For more information on the Air Force Flight Test Museum, visit flighttestmuseum.org. For more information on Visit Palmdale, visit cityofpalmdaleca.gov/visitpalmdale.

[Information via news release from Visit Palmdale.]

 

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Filed Under: Featured, Palmdale

7 comments for "Visit Palmdale donates $50,000 for new air force flight test museum"

  1. Stormy says

    August 20, 2023 at 1:10 pm

    Austin Bishop’ Print Boss uses cheap Chinese film substrate for their outdoor prints and signs. Installed in the desert these print signs do not last past 15 to 24 months as they crack, peel, fissure and go black
    It is not by chance 30 something Austin Bishop decided to go politica -l job security is a given payday

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    • Palmdale Taxpayer says

      August 21, 2023 at 8:04 am

      Austin Bishop has made a ton of money doing work for AVTA, the AV Fair and the city of Lancaster. Who knows how much he does for Marvin’s other pet projects like AVC and all the good old boy businesses. If you ever wanted to know why he sells Palmdale out, look no further than the ledgers of these organizations.

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  2. Iconoclast says

    August 17, 2023 at 4:14 pm

    And we have people living on the streets in Lancaster and Palmdale wearing filthy rags. Yea, we need a new building at the Fairgrounds and we need this museum! Oh, please!

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  3. JB says

    August 17, 2023 at 1:02 am

    Be nice if they invested into the actual community, fix the streets, build some things for the citizens and tourists to do like out door activities. A nice panned city center. Tear down all the eye sores and rebuild. Invest in the city as a whole not just one side of town. Gentrify the hell out of all problem areas that attract scum from LA .

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    • TF says

      August 17, 2023 at 8:33 am

      Invest in the actual community? With Bishop, Loa, Alacarn, and Ohlson? They are very good at sending Palmdale money out of the community. Millions to Lancaster. This museum is nice but why not invest in the airpark that is in Palmdale?

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      • JB says

        August 17, 2023 at 12:15 pm

        Not sure I’m understanding what you’re saying what does best shop have to do with Palmdale, those other places that be never heard about of. This is referring to Palmdale and their tourist branch investing into a museum that’s on heavily funded megalith of a company property. There are many parts of Palmdale that need immediate attention, you want tourists to be safe and willing to come out here address the socioeconomic root of the issue.

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    • Tim Scott says

      August 17, 2023 at 12:35 pm

      So you don’t count a museum under “things for tourists and citizens to do”?

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