Delta Flight Museum to Open to Public Next Summer
Courtesy: Delta Airlines
The museum at Delta Air Lines’ corporate headquarters is undergoing a $6.3 million make-over, and will open to the public next June. To hear an audio version of this story, click on the 'Listen' icon above.
Delta has had a museum on its campus at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport since 1995. But vice president of community affairs Tad Hutcheson says many folks don’t know about it.
“Right now the majority of the visitors to the museum are connected to Delta in one way or another,” he says. ”And we want to open the museum up to more people.”
To get to that point, crews are restoring hangars originally built in the 1940s. They’ll house the flight museum’s extensive memorabilia collection, as well as a DC-3 and Boeing 767 aircraft dubbed “The Spirit of Delta.”
Hutcheson says the renovated museum also will offer event space.
“You can have an event in the museum, right there with the airplanes. So it’ll be a really cool venue—a huge ‘Wow!’ factor for the museum.”
Atlanta-based Todd Dolson is the primary architect on the project. He’s the grandson of Charles Dolson, Delta’s second CEO.
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