The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field

The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field Opening Oct. 2025

"The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field" is a non-profit organization created to showcase Golden Age aviation aircraft and honor the history of Mustang Field's contribution to training America's heroic pilots during World War II.

Mustang Field Flying Day is back this Saturday, June 6.Join us at The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field from 10 a.m. ...
06/03/2026

Mustang Field Flying Day is back this Saturday, June 6.

Join us at The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. for a day outside of the hangar, surrounded by Golden Age aircraft, and aviation history.

Visitors can walk through the museum, see the collection up close, and experience the energy of Mustang Field in motion.

Flying is weather dependent, but the museum will be open for visitors.

Saturday, June 6
10 a.m.-2 p.m.
The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field
El Reno Regional Airport

👉 www.thecaldwellcollection.org

More museum hours. More time with the airplanes.Starting the week of June 1, The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field wi...
06/03/2026

More museum hours. More time with the airplanes.

Starting the week of June 1, The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field will be open Wednesday-Friday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., in addition to our regular Saturday hours from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Whether you’re an aviation enthusiast, pilot, history buff, or just curious about the aircraft that helped shape an era, we’d love to have you out to the hangar.

Come see the collection up close.
🔗 https://www.thecaldwellcollection.org/
6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

Need something new to do this summer?Starting the week of June 1, The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field will be open ...
06/01/2026

Need something new to do this summer?

Starting the week of June 1, The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field will be open Wednesday-Friday from 11 a.m.-4 p.m., plus our regular Saturday hours from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Bring your family, bring a friend, or stop by on your lunch break and see what’s happening inside Hangar 3 at El Reno Regional Airport.

History is a lot more fun when you can stand next to it.
🔗 https://www.thecaldwellcollection.org/
6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

New weekday hours are coming to The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field.Starting the week of June 1, the museum will be...
05/30/2026

New weekday hours are coming to The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field.

Starting the week of June 1, the museum will be open:

Wednesday-Friday: 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
Saturday: 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

That means more time to walk through the hangar, explore the aircraft, bring out-of-town guests, and experience a living collection of Golden Age aviation history right here in El Reno.

We’ll see you at Mustang Field.
🔗 https://www.thecaldwellcollection.org/
6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

We keep coming back to the same thing: these men didn't know it was going to work.The barnstormers who flew county fairs...
05/29/2026

We keep coming back to the same thing: these men didn't know it was going to work.

The barnstormers who flew county fairs in the 1920s weren't certain they'd land safely. The mail pilots who crossed the Rockies at night in open-cockpit biplanes weren't following established routes: they were making them. The designers who drew new aircraft by hand in small Midwest factories weren't guaranteed a market or a customer.

They did it anyway. And what they built: the aircraft, the routes, the industry, the culture. It is the foundation of every flight that happens today.

That's what we're preserving in Hangar 3. That spirit. That willingness to go first.
We think the world still needs more of it.

🔗 https://www.thecaldwellcollection.org/

Open Saturdays | 10am–2pm | 6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

In the 1930s, a private pilot in America had options that would make a modern aviator's jaw drop.Open-cockpit biplanes w...
05/27/2026

In the 1930s, a private pilot in America had options that would make a modern aviator's jaw drop.

Open-cockpit biplanes with radial engines. Enclosed touring aircraft with leather seats. Side-by-side two-seaters that cruised at 120 mph on 75 horsepower. Fabric, wood, steel tube — hand-built by craftsmen in small factories across the Midwest.

These weren't museum pieces. They were what you flew on a Saturday morning to visit a friend two states away. They were what flying clubs bought. What flying schools used to train new pilots.

Many of those aircraft are gone. A handful survive. The best of what survived is in Hangar 3 at Mustang Field.

🔗 https://www.thecaldwellcollection.org

Open Saturdays | 10am–2pm | 6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

If you've spent time around antique aircraft, you know about FAA Form 337. It's the document required every time a major...
05/20/2026

If you've spent time around antique aircraft, you know about FAA Form 337. It's the document required every time a major alteration or repair is made to an aircraft: like the change of engine, a structural repair, a modification to the airframe.

For us, FAA Form 337s are primary historical sources.

They tell us when the original Wright J-5 Whirlwind was pulled out of our Stearman and replaced with a Lycoming R-680 in July 1946. They tell us when the Saunders-era metal wings were installed on our Ryan SCW. They tell us the exact date the engine was removed, the mechanic who did the work, and the airframe hours at the time.

Every alteration is a chapter in the aircraft's biography. We read them all.

🔗 https://www.thecaldwellcollection.org

Open Saturdays | 10am–2pm | 6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

Reassembly has begun on the 1938 Ryan SCW! After some heavy lifting and traveling over 4,000 miles from Melbourne, Austr...
05/16/2026

Reassembly has begun on the 1938 Ryan SCW!

After some heavy lifting and traveling over 4,000 miles from Melbourne, Australia in a shipping container this legend got to fully stretch its wings.

Keep following along to see the Ryan reach the sky again this summer!

The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field! A living collection of Golden Age aircraft: where history takes flight.Open EV...
05/16/2026

The Caldwell Collection at Mustang Field! A living collection of Golden Age aircraft: where history takes flight.
Open EVERY Saturday, 10am–2pm. Join us tomorrow!

Al Mooney's name appears on two aircraft in our collection.He designed the Eaglerock Long Wing for Alexander Aircraft at...
05/15/2026

Al Mooney's name appears on two aircraft in our collection.

He designed the Eaglerock Long Wing for Alexander Aircraft at age 19. He designed the Culver Cadet LCA — and personally signed the conformity documents for Serial 117 in 1940. And Mooney Aircraft Corporation, which he founded in 1946, still bears his name today.

He was self-taught. He was relentlessly inventive. And he left fingerprints on American general aviation that are still visible eight decades later.
When you stand in front of our Eaglerock or our Culver Cadet, you're looking at the work of one of the most important designers in the history of this country's aviation industry. We think he deserves to be remembered.

Open Saturdays | 10am–2pm | 6600 S Mustang Field Rd, Hangar 3 El Reno, OK 73036 (El Reno Regional Airport)

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6600 S Mustang Field Road, Hangar 3
El Reno, OK
73036

Opening Hours

Wednesday 11am - 4pm
Thursday 11am - 4pm
Friday 11am - 4pm
Saturday 10am - 2pm

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