B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM

A 501(c)(3) Non-profit Corporation

Dedicated to the preservation of the
rich aviation history of North Texas.

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS
See President's column below.

Museum logo design by Joe N. Carr ©2003.

 

 

MONTHLY PUBLIC MEETINGS DRAW LARGE CROWDS.
See "News and Special Announcements"

 

2008 BOARD of DIRECTORS ANNOUNCED
Click here for details.

 

NEW HISTORY ARTICLE
See Fort Worth Meacham International Airport
in the History section.

 

WELCOME TO
B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.

Updated 30 June 2008

 

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE AND MUSEUM UPDATE

NEWS UPDATE

Dear Friends and Supporters of the B-36 Peacemaker Museum,

After years of pursuing a suitable place to display the great legacy of our city's contribution to aviation only to come up with an empty plate, you'll have to excuse the giddiness of some of us involved in the process of now helping create a world-class aviation museum.

Everyone knows the travails of the past. Though recognized as a missing link by aviation enthusiasts there just wasn't the community support for the project. Furthermore, there was some degree of dissention among groups trying from different directions to create creditable aviation displays.

What caused the worm to turn? Probably several events. The city came to realize that oil/gas and cattle are only part of our greatness and that economically and historically it is aviation that keeps Fort Worth on the map. Another factor might have been the realization of the disparate aviation groups that couldn't do it alone; not enough money, not enough stuff, and not enough expertise.

Now with the city on board, Van Romans and the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History being involved, the hiring of the Lord Cultural Group as consultant, and the aviation groups all working together, the dream may come true.

It is still premature to even name a location but discussion has involved most of our airports as well as non-airport locations like the old power plant on Main Street across the Trinity River from the court house. Discussion has included displays, artifacts, funding, and organizational structure.

We are committed to making it happen. There will be information and displays related to the B-36. The possibility of recovering the B-36 from Pima has been broached and while not a likely occurrence, we don't completely rule it out, either.

The B-36 Peacemaker Museum board would like to once again thank all the many contributors who have been so generous with money and artifacts. Those will all go toward our continuing effort to tell the story of the B-36. The venue for telling that story will hopefully be in the world class Fort Worth Aviation and Space Museum.

 

We'll keep you posted.
Clyde Picht, President
B-36 Peacemaker Museum, Inc.

Meeting schedule:

The Board has decided to delay our monthly meetings until after the dog days of summer.  We will resume our monthly meetings on the 22nd of September in the Meacham Terminal conference room on the second floor.

Please join us at 7PM on the 22nd of September, 2008.

 

 
 

 

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On Saturday, July 4, 1925, Fort Worth Mayor H.C. Meacham announced during the annual Defense Day celebration the final signing by the City Council, on Friday, July 3, of a lease on Decatur Road of 100 acres of land to be used as the city's new municipal airport.  This airport, located one-half mile from the city's dirigible mooring mast, and called "Muny" by local citizens, would replace Fort Worth's first municipal airport that was located at a former WWI aviation cadet training school at Barron Field near Everman.

In the years that followed, the new airport would be renamed Meacham Field and Decatur Road would be renamed North Main Street.  This small airport would eventually become a major factor in the growth of Fort Worth and North Texas.  Its location became a primary factor in the Army's decision to locate a WWII bomber factory and Air Force base in Fort Worth that would forever change North Texas - and the world.

CLICK HERE to learn the real history of Fort Worth's municipal airport.

 

 

 

7th Bomb Wing <nobr>B-36</nobr> Association Inc.
B-36 Peacemaker Museum is
fully endorsed by the 7th Bomb
Wing B-36 Association, Inc.

 


Out where the world is in the making,
Where fewer hearts in despair are aching,
That’s where the West begins;
Where there’s more of singing and less of sighing,
Where there’s more of giving and less of buying,
And a man makes friends without half trying —
That’s where the West begins.

Arthur Chapman (1916)

 

Read and sign a guestbook maintained for the late Neil Anderson by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram:

GUESTBOOK

 

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B-36 PEACEMAKER MUSEUM INC.
505 NW 38th Street
Hangar 33 South
Fort Worth, TX 76106

 

 

NEWS AND SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.......

 

PUBLIC MEETING
REPORT AND
SCHEDULE

Our next public meeting will be on
22 September 2008
7 P.M.
Meacham International Airport

All of our lectures are free to the public as an educational service.

OUR SPEAKER FOR 19 MAY 2008

was Mr. Juergen Lukas, whose background includes: (2005-2007) Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps and Commanding Officer (CEO/COO), Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 41, Marine NAS/JRB Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. Lukas commanded 1,500 Marines and Sailors in a complex operational aviation organization during a time of war. See http://www.linkedin.com/in/juergenbaronlukas  for more background on Mr. Lukas who spoke about the war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

LOCAL AVIATION EVENTS

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Volunteers needed, no experience necessary.

If you would like to work on aircraft, just show up at the Vintage Flight Museum on the south end of Meacham Field on the second Saturday of each month.

Subject:   OBA/FACM 2nd Saturday Work-Party
Next Date:   Saturday July 14, 2008
Time:   9:00 am - 2:00 pm
Repeats:   This event repeats on the second
Saturday of every month.
Location:   VFM Hangar
Description:   Free Lunch for OBA/FACM members!

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The Last B-36 has gone to Arizona but our history remains here.  Please visit the History Section of our website often for memories from our aviation past.

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Wing Commander Dermott Lang Allen, AFC RAF
Who was this Fort Worth aviation pioneer?

Click the picture to discover part of our aviation heritage.

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Airship ZR-1 "Shenandoah" departing Fort Worth 9 October 1924
Fort Worth played a strategic role in the golden age of airships during the 1920s.

Click the picture to learn more.

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Why is this building on the  N.E. corner of 7th and Main an historic Fort Worth aviation landmark?

Click the picture to discover another part of our city's aviation heritage.

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A new history article has been submitted by Mr. Frank Kleinwechter.  It is a reprint of a speech delivered by Amon Carter, Jr., on the day the last B-36 left Carswell Air Force Base.

Click here to learn What the B-36 has Meant to Fort Worth.

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 See THIS PAGE for photos of James Anderson's giant RC model of the Last B-36.

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Click this link to learn what became of Greater Southwest International Airport - Amon Carter Field.

"It was all plowed into the ground!"

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Beautiful color and B/W movie history of the B-36.
Buy this B-36 history video in our gift shop.
New revised version on DVD.

 

B-36: Saving the Last Peacemaker on CD-ROM. The complete history of the last B-36 built by Consolidated Vultee.
The complete history of the Last B-36 is
available on CD-ROM from our gift shop

 


Our latest addition in the gift shop
is a new CD-ROM by Bill Leary,
"Flyers of Barron Field"

 

B-36 caps and shirts are now on sale
and don't miss the new B-36 shoulder
patches and lapel pins.

Please visit the gift shop.

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WANT TO LEARN MORE
ABOUT THE B-36 ERA?
SEE: www.B-36.net

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