August 12, 2026 - Millville with Mugsy
Mugsy and I decided to fly to Millville for lunch today.  We met at Massey Aerodrome.  I arrived a little early.  Look how high the corn is!
   
This RV-12 has been rode hard and put away wet.
   
Quite a few glider trailers parked out back.
   
We flew over to Millville and parked next to some big iron.
   
 
   
After a delicious lunch at Verna's Flight Line Restaurant, we walked over to the Millville Army Air Field Museum.  I have been here a couple of times but not in a few years.  I find that if you haven't been somewhere for five years or more, it's like seeing it for the first time.
   
One of the docents was also an ex-P-3 Orion man like myself and pointed out this P-3 model hanging overhead.
   
A spinner from a German World War II fighter.  They painted the curly-cue thing on the spinner in an attempt to prevent people from walking into the spinning propeller.
   
I've always liked this museum for its plastic model collection which is of very high quality.
   
Millville Army Air Field was a big P-47 Thunderbolt training base during World War II.
   
Hence the superb collection of P-47 models.
   
And there's more!
   
They used to have big airshows here at Millville.
   
The powerful and reliable Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp radial engine which powered so many U.S. warbirds during World War Two, including the F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair, P-47 Thunderbolt, Martin B-26 Marauder, Northup P-61 Black Widow.  125,334 were built.
   
This outdoor exhibit -- containing a M-60 main battle tank, A-4 Skyhawk and front end of a DC-3 -- was new to me and nicely done.
   
 
   
I liked this big mural on the back of a hangar.
   
To the side, the abandoned PZL TS-11 Iskra -- a Polish jet trainer -- rusts away.  I first saw this jet in Janujary, 2020.  Then it was in great condition -- shiny aluminum.
   
We were surprised to discover a new restaurant at the airport.  It's the Runway 28 Cafe and Grill.  I know there used to be a restaurant in this building but it closed many years ago.    We'll have to try this one out one of these days.
   
 
   
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