Chico Air Museum - Freedom Eagle Project

Had the opportunity to visit the new Chico Air Museum over the weekend. It is FABULOUS! Great job, to all those who contributed & worked so hard on this. It is really a place to visit, when in Chico, CA.

Awesome all the effort & dedication to acquire this treasure.

Veterans, public enjoy event at Chico airport - Chico Enterprise Record CHICO — It was a Veterans Day like few others at the Chico Municipal Airport, with the unveiling of the finally complete F-15 jet, and an airborne salute to veterans.

The dedication...

"Was way too cool to see this on I-5 just past the boat section in Sacramento. Feel free to use this pic if it fits in telling the story of getting it to Chico. I kinda want to borrow it to beat traffic. ;) " Thanks, Curtis. This is great!

On to Chico, via police es**rt, where a crowd of aviation enthusiasts greeted the arrival. Most of the crowd dispersed well before the completion of unloading, which involved attaching both wings and the landing gear. It took 7 hours on a sunny, hot tarmac to accomplish the task. All that remains is to complete the restoration in the next 3-4 weeks.

The Freedom Eagle arrived Sunday morning, 11am. 1 of the Museum members met the truck in Orland & attached 2 American flags to the tails - a wonderful and dramatic entrance. Norm & Janice Rosene began tracking the F-15 early Sunday morning, via a Cessna 170, for video & still photographs, by air. A wild ride, flying low and fast. Got some beautiful shots including the convoy crossing the Sacramento River...

The Chico Air Museum, a small Northern California Air and Space Museum, announced today the projected arrival date of its recently acquired F-15C Eagle as Sunday, July 31st. The jet will arrive at the museum after a three thousand mile truck trip, crossing eight states.