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Kids Day!

Twin Cities folks - on Saturday, December 13 the Northwest Airlines History Center is hosting Kids Day at The Museum!

Kids (and their accompanying Responsible Adult) can enjoy hands-on activities, fun photo opps, and explore Minnesota airline history at the best air travel museum in the upper Midwest.

Free admission, free parking, and a great way to connect a kid to the excitement and possibilities of air travel!

The museum is on the 3rd floor of the Crowne Plaza Suites Hotel in Bloomington, close to the MSP Airport at 494 & 34th Av.

Museum New Night!

If you’ll be in the Twin Cities/MSP Airport area of Minnesota on Friday, July 18 come visit the Northwest Airlines History Center Museum for a New Night reception from 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm.

New Night provides an opportunity to check out new exhibits and visitor resources, meet History Center volunteers, and launch the weekend with refreshments, shopping discounts, prizes, plus free parking and no admission fee!

The museum is located in the Crowne Plaza Suites Hotel at 34th Avenue and I-494 in Bloomington, close to the airport and The Mall of America.

Hotel parking is available for museum visitors, or use the Blue Line light rail from the airport’s passenger terminals or The Mall to reach the American Boulevard Station across from the Crowne Plaza.

Family photo!

Catching some sunshine on the ramp at Denver on 2 January 2025 is a Fairchild Swearingen Metro 23, and a pair of Fairchild Dornier 328JETs, all operated by Key Lime Air (IATA: KG) for that company’s Denver Air Connection (DAC) scheduled passenger services.

The Metro 23 carries registration N889DC, and entered airline service in 1992 with Aerolitoral of Mexico. This plane also flew with airlines in Venezuela and Australia before joining the DAC fleet in 2023.

Usually furnished with 18 or 19 passenger seats, the DAC Metros are unusual because of their wildly roomy 9-seat cabin that satisfies a per-aircraft capacity restriction under U.S. Part 135 operating regulations.

The 328JETs in the photo are N677DC (wearing the paint of its former operator, Caspiy of Kazakhstan), and N398DC in DAC’s standard green/blue tail colors.

The 328JET’s seat 30 passengers, and are a development of the earlier 328 turboprop regional airliner.

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