American Wings Air Museum

This afternoon, my dad and I went to visit the American Wings Air Museum at the Anoka County-Blaine Airport.

Taylorcraft L-2
Aeronca L-3
Homebuilt Flying Wing Glider
Inside Of A Radar Trailer
Overhauled Flat-6 Lycoming Or Continental
STECO Biplane
STECO Car
Early 1950's Flight Simulator
Flight Sim Panel
Convair C-131 Samaritan Cockpit
Overhead Panel In The C-131
Morane-Saulnier MS.733 Alcyon
Naval Aircraft Factory N3N "Yellow Peril". Fun Fact: these biplane trainers, first delivered to the Navy in 1935, were retired in 1961.
The main focus of the museum is Grumman OV-1 Mohawks.
Mohawk Cockpit
Probably the coolest thing at the museum was this Piper L-4B, equipped on top with a Brodie Rig. The Brodie Rig was basically a cable stretched between the bow and stern of a Landing Ship, and hung out over the side. To take off, a pilot shoved the throttle forward, waited until he was at the end of the cable, and bulled a handle in the cockpit, which released the hook, and off he went. To "land", a pilot would just snag the cradle with the hook and a friction line would slow the plane down.
Cockpit of the L-4B
More Mohawks outside the museum
This OV-1A, when used at the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, used to have auxiliary J-47 jet engines.
Sikorsky UH-34
This was one of the coolest things out there, although it wasn't part of the museum. I'd read about this airplane on the intraweb, but had forgotten about it. It's a TBM Avenger, which the guy who owns it is going to restore it after he restores his Curtiss A-25 Shrike (Army version of the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver).