* Tours: Saturday mornings (9 to 1) with volunteer hosts. Visitors can learn about those who built and maintained the remote airway navigation sites, and about aviators like Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Jacqueline Cochran, who had key early roles in air progress in this area. This museum preserves the early aviation history of the Grants region, linked with the parallel histories of the transcontinental Santa Fe railroad, and iconic Route 66. Exhibit spaces accommodate detailed displays. Existing and relocated airway buildings have been restored to an original appearance with interpretive signs, relics, and maps. The Aviation Heritage Museum: In a 7-year project, CCHS has developed a museum and heritage tourism site at the airport. The current Grants-Milan Airport and its federal Flight Service Station (FSS), were completed in 1953. Grants first had a rough dirt landing strip in the mid-1920s, and in 1931 the nearby Acomita federal emergency airfield was opened. Today, many relics and field sites of early aviation still exist along the LA-A Airway, and our Grants-Milan Airport is one such place. *For more resources on how and where the nation's airways evolved, please go to ' '. Following a tragic crash on Mount Taylor (*see the next 'projects' sub-link), the route of the Los Angeles-Amarillo Airway (LA-A) was shifted to a straight line running south of the Zuni Mountains, where beacon towers and emergency airfields made a pathway for safe, reliable night flight. Transcontinental Air Transport (TAT), with Charles Lindbergh as technical advisor, laid out a cross-country airline route here in 1929, following the Santa Fe Railroad and historic Route 66. The Grants area was very significant in the early decades of air travel. Project Background : The Cibola County Historical Society (CCHS) voted in 2010 to create a Regional Aviation History Site at the Grants-Milan Airport.
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