Texas Air & Space Museum

Texas Air & Space Museum's (TASM) goal is to establish and maintain a premier aviation museum to honor the pioneers and histories of our servicemen and women, aviators and astronauts of northwest Texas. TASM's board includes the most experienced and dedicated aviation professionals in the Amarillo and Texas Panhandle regions, bringing with them a dedication to country and our freedom that has its beginnings prior to World War II.

Texas Air & Space Museum (TASM) board members have demonstrated a hope to "plant trees under which they may never sit to enjoy the shade" - exhibiting selfless dedication to this effort. In doing so, they have borrowed on the better parts of past efforts regionally in order to bring to northwest Texas a museum of national prominence.

TASM's plans include air shows, aviation events, locally supported dances, events with Boy and Girl Scouts, Big Brothers /Big Sisters, Civil Air Patrol, Commemorative Air Force, Boys Ranch and Girls Town, to name but a few.

While much is known about the dedication or service records of TASM's board members, modesty precludes sharing some of the cost with which our freedom came. In the late 1930's, Florene Miller Watson's father purchased a Luscombe Silvaire airplane to teach his two sons and daughter to fly. His neighbors and the community expressed concern at this unusual act. He responded to them that we would be at war and he wanted his children to be able to contribute to the effort. The children did learn, and as adults, they contributed greatly to the war effort in helping to preserve our freedom. That "sacrifice" cost Mr. Miller and one son their lives in that same aircraft before the war began. We do not want to forget those, nor the many sacrifices made by the men, women, and families on the ground, in the air, and in space for the freedoms and opportunities that we, as Americans, and many other countries enjoy today.

Not only those sacrifices but the countless others, the rich histories and dreams of northwest Texas, need to be chronicled for a remembrance of future generations, and a grateful nation.

Future...

The Texas Air & Space Museum will now provide a full range of services tailored to the vintage, warbird and collectible aircraft owner. Aircraft purchased as investments, restorations, maintenance, care and display of rare aircraft can all be managed "under one roof."

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