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Golden Age Air Museum, Bethel, PA

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Golden Age Air Museum

A Pennsylvania museum focused on early flight, especially the interwar era of barnstorming and airmail.

371 Airport Road, Bethel, PA 19507 · Bethel, PA

About Golden Age Air Museum

Set near the Blue Mountain ridge in Berks County, this museum is built around the years between the two World Wars, when barnstorming pilots, airmail routes, flying circuses, and early airlines took shape. Its exhibits also include older automobiles and aircraft dating from the earliest flying machines through the 1940s. The museum operates from Grimes Airfield and presents itself as a place where visitors can experience aviation history in a hands-on, period-themed setting.

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  • #history
  • #Golden Age of Aviation
  • #barnstorming
  • #vintage aircraft

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