We are plugging away on significant expansions to our website offerings in 2026, supporting updates to our physical displays at our museum in Bloomington, MN, as well as bolstering our usefulness to researchers, historians, and everyone interested in aviation history.
In our substantial Aircraft Gallery “wing” of the website, already this year we’ve added pages for the early Waco and Laird biplanes – very fitting to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Northwest’s founding. Now in early April 2026 we can add the venerable Douglas DC-3 and Douglas DC-4 to our album of 65 different aircraft types!
The DC-3 page alone has more than 120 images posted, with most coming from our own archive housed at Flying Cloud Airport, which includes big collections from the family of North Central Airlines’ longtime leader Hal Carr, and former Northwest Airlines pilot James Borden.
There are just a few more aircraft type galleries left for us to complete and we are racing towards the finish line! There are also many other new features for our online presence in development that we’ll be telling you about in upcoming months.
We are always on the lookout for more and unique photos of aircraft, airport facilities, office and maintenance work, employees, and anything else that can help us better tell the stories of commercial aviation in the Northland. If you have photos or digital files, or can contribute in other ways, see our options at our Memberships and Donations page.
