President of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, BGen Michael Aguilar, reports that the Advisory Board of the Museum has been touring Hangar 296 with architects and engineers in anticipation that the final Memorandum of Understanding with the Marine Corps lending the MCAS Miramar command museum’s collection to the site will be signed very soon.
President of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, BGen Michael Aguilar, provides an update on efforts to save the collection and relocate the museum to Great Park, Irvine, California.
Brigadier General Michael Aguilar, president of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum, updates Jason Wood and his audience on the status of the move from MCAS Mirarmar to Great Park in Irvine, CA.
The museum has been offered the opportunity to relocate to Great Park, Irvine, California-the former MCAS El Toro. In response, USMC leadership has indicated that they will keep the collection intact and stored at MCAS Miramar for a very limited period of time to give the museum’s foundation the opportunity to raise sufficient funds to prepare the new facility and move the collection.
Today’s podcast explores the history of the founding of the USMC and why November 10th is now recognized as its birth date. We also have embedded the 246th birthday message from the Commandant.
Inspired by WWII USMC pilot Major Glenn Ferguson and by Mitch Albom’s 2007 best seller, Tuesdays with Morrie, Foundation volunteer and producer of the “On the Fly” podcast, Patrick Ball, started meeting every Sunday with Major Ferguson to document his experiences and wisdom.
In today’s podcast we share an article by Executive Director of the Foundation, BGen Mike Aguilar, about the proposed move of the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum to the El Toro hangars at Great Park in Irvine, California.
