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Champaign Aviation Museum Grimes Field Urbana, Ohio Located at Grimes Field in Urbana, Ohio. The Museum's purpose is to restore and preserve historical aircraft specifically but not limited to the aircraft of World War II. It is also the intent of the Museum to operate these aircraft for static and flying displays. Stop in for a visit! Exciting times are ahead! New events and activities are coming up for the museum and our B17 project! Synchronze your watches! The B25s are coming! On April 15, 16, 17, 18, 2010, B25 Mitchell bombers will be in, on, and around Grimes Field! They will be in our part of Ohio as participants in the 68th and final Doolittle Raiders public reunion. Details are coming soon on this site! We urge you to keep track of this site for the overall B-25 itinerary. The weather, the airplanes, and various schedules all have to come together, be coordinated, and these factors need to be kept in mind for our vounteers and especially our visitors. Please keep checking this site for the latest information on refined schedules for the entire April 15-18 weekend. We will always post the latest information under the B-25 Fly In section as it is confirmed. For the CAM, there will be a WARBIRD FLY-IN on June 19 and 20! This is a new event and we look forward to seeing lots of visitors and especially warbirds at Grimes Field! We will add more information to this as it is confirmed! We are planning on great weather and on you being here with us. Also, mark your calendars for September 11 and 12. That will be the the Mideast Regional Fly In (MERFI). This event is growing year by year and last year we enjoyed lots of people, veterans, airplanes, and perfect weather. We hope to see you for these events and keep checking back for new events as they are confirmed! A New Home 
Champaign Lady is in her new home! Well, not the actual, physical airplane…there are a few parts of her in the museum but the complete Champaign Lady is now represented in her new home. Through late December and January, Frank Drain and his sons, Kevin and Adam, erected scaffolding, ladders, and lighting in order to paint the Champaign Lady mural in the reception area of the museum. It is now complete. This mural will welcome visitors to the museum for many years to come and it represents the feeling all of us have as we build the 12, 732nd Flying Fortress. If we were to express it in words, it would read something like: In our hearts, a Fortress lives. From our hands, a Fortress flies. The Drain family captured in paint what we feel in our hearts and will one day see with our eyes…our Flying Fortress, Champaign Lady, in flight over Grimes Field! All the volunteers and visitors appreciate the mural and what it means! |
