Experience the sights, sounds, and smells of aviation as it was in its earlier days. The Massey Air Museum is a living airport-museum reminiscent of rural airports of a bygone era. 

The Air Museum, a grass airfield on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, and the Massey Aerodrome were the dream of four gentlemen with a love of aviation. In the space of a few months, they transformed corn fields into a working public use airport with a 3000′ grass runway which opened in 2001. Activities include antique aircraft restoration, annual fly-ins, EAA Young Eagles events, and aviation camaraderie. Visitors are able to walk through the aircraft collection, visit the library, watch some of the current restoration projects, or just sit and watch airplanes come and go. The small museum houses artifacts, news and materials from around the globe as well as information on aircraft of nearly all varieties, both domestic and foreign. Special media coverage from the past is also displayed.

Our tour will be led by a museum docent, and there will be time to inspect and tour airplanes and other aircraft on the fields.

You will learn of the substantial efforts made by the founders of the Massey Museum to acquire and maintain vintage aircraft and keep the heroic actions of pilots who used these planes during WWI and WWII alive. Captured or downed enemy aircraft are also on display as well as uniforms, memorabilia, and documents of a century of flight. The tour will provide a unique view into an era many have forgotten or are too young to have experienced.  For those interested in researching specific aircraft or their specific uses over time, there is a well-curated reference library on site for use in the future.  

What to expect:  Cost includes docent-led tour, box lunch, picnic area set up for our group in the hangar, plus a donation.  We will meet at the Easton Target parking lot (in the closed bank’s parking lot) at 9:30 am to carpool the approximate hour to get there.