Air museum’s Tuskegee display to feature models, other artifacts
Hudson’s Bay: Pearson Air Museum volunteer John Kalde, left, shakes hands with George Humphries, who loaned the museum a fighter plane model for the new Tuskegee Airmen display. Next to Humphries is junior volunteer Jay Jones, and resident senior volunteer and airframe and power plant mechanic Joshua Stayley.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Hudson’s Bay — George Humphries has loaned Pearson Air Museum a model of a fighter plane that will be on display in the new Tuskegee Airmen case being unveiled Friday. The model featuring 3,828 parts was hand-built by Humphries’ uncle Robert Shaw during five years in the 1950s. The model will be featured with a “Red Tail” P-51 Mustang model, a Tuskegee Airmen jacket on loan from Norris Hibbler of Vancouver-based Aircraft & Marine Assurance Agency Inc. and reader boards about the accomplishments of the fighter group.
