https://wrightairmuseum.com/ An evening class kept from the Lucile M. Wright Air Museum of Jamestown, New York: chalk talks on the aircraft, the aviatrix, and the programs that once taught Chautauqua County to fly. en-us Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMT https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/first-flight-with-billy-mitchell/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/first-flight-with-billy-mitchell/Sat, 19 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AviatrixLucile Miller's first flight was in 1922, in the cockpit of a friend of her father's: General Billy Mitchell, the man who bet the Army on air power. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/the-license-that-took-thirteen-years/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/the-license-that-took-thirteen-years/Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AviatrixLucile Wright bought her own flight time for years before an instructor would let her test. The museum's biography records the wait plainly, and it is the real lesson. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aircraft/the-1974-navion/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aircraft/the-1974-navion/Thu, 17 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AircraftThe 1974 Navion sat on the museum's floor as a finished thing: a four-place, all-metal tourer that began life as a war-surplus idea. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/the-ninety-nines-and-amelia/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/the-ninety-nines-and-amelia/Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AviatrixLucile Wright met Amelia Earhart in 1928, joined the women pilots' organization Earhart founded, and carried a chapter of it back to Jamestown. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aircraft/the-1956-tri-pacer/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aircraft/the-1956-tri-pacer/Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AircraftThe 1956 Tri-Pacer was the fabric-covered trainer on the museum's floor: the slow, forgiving aeroplane that taught a county what flying costs. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aircraft/the-mini-500-and-the-biplane/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aircraft/the-mini-500-and-the-biplane/Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AircraftAt the ends of the museum's list sat its two unfinished arguments: a kit helicopter that arrived as news, and a Great Lakes trainer still being rebuilt. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/courier-pilot-western-new-york/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-aviatrix/courier-pilot-western-new-york/Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe AviatrixDuring the Second World War Lucile Wright was the only woman courier pilot in Western New York under the Civil Air Patrol, ferrying parts and personnel. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/seam-wrenches-before-diplomas/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/seam-wrenches-before-diplomas/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe ClassroomThe Student Exploratory Aircraft Mechanics program met on Saturday mornings at the community college's technology institute, taught welding first, and ran on FAA on-the-job training. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/fly-to-learn-powered-by-x-plane/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/fly-to-learn-powered-by-x-plane/Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe ClassroomWith Time Warner Cable's Connect a Million Minds behind it, the museum carried X-Plane simulators into Chautauqua County schools and called it STEM before STEM was a slogan. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/the-planetarium-in-the-back-room/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/the-planetarium-in-the-back-room/Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe ClassroomThe museum kept a planetarium: laser shows, night skies anywhere at any date, constellations and nebulae in 3D, open to the public and to any class that called. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/the-mars-yard-and-its-web-rover/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-classroom/the-mars-yard-and-its-web-rover/Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe ClassroomBeside the planetarium the museum kept a Mars Yard: a rover pit that could be driven over the web, a remote-controlled mission for anyone who asked. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-honors/the-scholarship-shelf/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-honors/the-scholarship-shelf/Tue, 08 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe HonorsThe museum awarded annual scholarships for National Space Camp, flight training and Jamestown Community College, and kept the winners' names on its site year after year. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-honors/woman-of-the-year-1958/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-honors/woman-of-the-year-1958/Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe HonorsLucile Wright was named Aviation Woman of the Year in 1958, entered the Roll of Honor in 1981, and was the only woman honorary life member of the airport executives' association. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-field/three-hundred-north-main-street/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-field/three-hundred-north-main-street/Sun, 06 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe FieldThe museum lived at 300 North Main Street in Jamestown and kept its aircraft in hangars at the county airport above Chautauqua Lake, an institution in two rooms. https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-field/the-board-that-kept-the-field/https://wrightairmuseum.com/the-field/the-board-that-kept-the-field/Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:00:00 GMTThe FieldSix trustees, a 501(c)(3) charter and one phone number: how the museum was actually governed, and what happened to the field when the institution ended.