For more information please contact Nicole Wahlberg, Director of Marketing and Public Relations,
Evergreen Aviation Museum, (503) 434-4006, or email nichole.wahlberg@sprucegoose.org;
Ryan Lillie, Director of Education, (503) 434‑4005, or ryan.lillie@sprucegoose.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : June 4, 2004

Evergreen Aviation Museum Offers
Aviation Summer Camp for Local Children

McMinnville, Ore. One hundred years ago, the Wright Brothers took a love of flying and transformed it into a flying machine that changed the world. This summer, children at the Evergreen Aviation Museum can channel their creative energy into re-discovering this fascination with flight.

The Museum is hosting a summer camp entitled "Head for the Clouds”. Children, grades 3 through 6 (ages 8 – 11), will have fun learning about science and the history of flight while building airplanes, rockets and flying radio controlled (RC) aircraft. All of this will be in the midst of the museum’s collection of over 50 historic aircraft and exhibits.

The “Head for the Clouds” day camp will run July 13 to 15 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. each day. The cost for all three days is $80 for museum members and $95 for non-members. Cost includes lunch and snacks daily, materials for the balsa gliders, balloons, and rockets, and fuel for the radio controlled planes.

To register, contact the Education Department at the Evergreen Aviation Museum, (503) 434‑4005, or ryan.lillie@sprucegoose.org. All participants must be registered by July 6.

The Evergreen Aviation Museum is best known as the home of the world’s largest wooden airplane, the “Spruce Goose” and the SR-71 Blackbird. In addition, there are more than 50 historic aircraft and exhibits on display, along with aviation artwork, traveling displays, the Spruce Goose Café and the museum store. The Evergreen Aviation Museum’s hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily except when it is closed for Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, New Year’s Day and Easter. An extensive museum store and friendly café add to the Museum experience. The Museum is located at 500 NE Captain Michael King Smith Way, across the highway from the McMinnville Airport and about three miles southeast of McMinnville, Ore., on Highway 18. Regular visitor admission is required. Call (503) 434-4180 for more information, and visit www.sprucegoose.org.