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Grimes Flying Lab Museum Events

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    Aviation Trail
  • 3 days ago
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The Grimes Flying Lab Museum/Foundation 2025 season:

Events for the 2025 season: 


Here is the event 2025 schedule for the appearance of the Grimes Flying Lab schedule ( weather permitting / subject to change ) 

June 7- Grimes Flying Lab museum event - 50th anniversary celebration for the flight to Paris ! ! - more details will be coming soon - Grimes Field Urbana , Ohio. See "Save the Date" card below. For updates see See Grimes facebook page at www.facebook.com/GrimesFlyingLab 

June 21-22- aircraft on display at Dayton Air Show , Dayton , Ohio 

July 4- Bryan , Ohio Pancake Breakfast Fly- in 

July 5- Urbana 4th of July Celebration ( aircraft will fly at dusk before  fireworks ) - Grimes Field Urbana , Ohio 

July 12- Lorain County Regional Airport in Elyria, OH, the Discover Aviation Airplane & Car Show 

August 16-17- aircraft will attend Akron Props and Pistons Air show in Akron, Ohio 

At Grimes Field - MERFI and Balloonfest in afternoon / evening - museum will be open 

Labor Day weekend - Waynesville , Ring of Fire event over Indian Lake 

September 20 -  Bucyrus, Ohio 

September 27 - EAA Chapter event Zanesville , Ohio 


Save the Date! June 7, 2025 - 50th anniversary celebration for the flight to Paris
Save the Date! June 7, 2025 - 50th anniversary celebration for the flight to Paris
 

About Grimes Flying Lab Museum:

Located at Grimes Field in Urbana, the "lab" is a Beech 18 that served the U.S. Air Forces as a C-45 and was modified to a C-45H as a test bed for aircraft nighttime lighting systems. The aircraft was a valuable tool for engineers who worked for Warren G. Grimes - the father of aircraft lighting - before and during World War II to advance developments for safer flight at night. Grimes produced his first airplane lights in his garage in 1933 and by World War II his company had grown to produce lighting for military aviation. Besides memorabilia from Grimes' life and Grimes Manufacturing Co., historical and modern aircraft lighting products are displayed.


Grimes Flying Lab Foundation


Grimes Flying Lab Foundation is a a 501(c)(3) organization.

 

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