All Day Presentations:

Career Talks
Lower Level Boeing Aviation Hangar

  • United States Air Force Academy and Way of Life Alumni Group
  • Maryland area chapter of Black Pilots of America
  • 201st Airlift Squadron (DC Air National Guard)
  • Southwest Airlines Commercial Pilots
  • U.S. Air Force Academy
  • Organization of Black Aerospace Professionals

Hands-on Activities
Boeing Aviation Hangar various locations

  • Create Your Own Squadron Art Activity
  • Identify Parts of a P-51 Airplane Art Activity
  • African Skies Tonight Constellation Activity
  • Fighter Pilot Paper Dolls Activity

Scheduled Events:
Lower Level Boeing Aviation Hangar, WWII Gallery Entrance, near SR-71

Bessie Coleman: Roam the Sky
Musical Theatrical Performance by Actress Hope Price-Lindsay (30 minute show)
10:15 am

Schroeder Cherry & Tevin Tuskegee Airmen Themed Puppet Show
11:00 am & 1:45 pm

Honored Guest: Conversations with Tuskegee Airmen
11:30 am – 1:00 pm

Bessie Coleman: Roam the Sky
Musical Theatrical Performance by Actress Hope Price-Lindsay (30 minute show)
1:00 pm

Flights of Fancy Story Time with a Hands-on Activity and Aviator Dress Up Corner (ages 3-8)
11:30 am, 12:00 pm, 12:30 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm and 2:30 pm
Lower Level Boeing Aviation Hangar

Wind Flyers
Written by Angela Johnson and illustrated by Loren Long

Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of "Brave Bessie" Coleman
Written by Reeve Lindbergh and illustrated by Pamela Paparone

Book Signings
Museum Shop Entrance

Tuskegee Airman: The Biography of Charles E. McGee, Air Force Fighter, Combat Record Holder
Author Col. Charles E. McGee, Tuskegee Airman
Noon - 5:00 pm

Stealth Down
Author Ross Simpson
Noon - 5:00 pm

American Raiders, Coming to Colorado, German Boy, German Boy HC, Glory Days, I Always Wanted to Fly, The War of Our Childhood and Watson's Whizzers
Author Col. Wolfgang Samuel
Noon - 5:00 pm

Discovery Stations, Flight Interactives, and Paper Airplane Contest Demonstrations
Learn about the science and history of flight through hands-on discovery stations and demonstrations
10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Lower Level Boeing Aviation Hangar

“African Sky Tonight” Portable Planetarium Presentations
10:30 am, 11:30 am, 1:00 pm, 1:30 pm, 2:00 pm
Lower Level Boeing Aviation Hangar

This program is made possible by the generous support of Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Conversations with the Tuskegee Airmen during the African American Pioneers in Aviation Family Day at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.
How to attend Throughout Location