FARGO, N.D. – The Fargo Air Museum is hosting a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:00pm on Tuesday, January 16 to celebrate the grand opening of its latest exhibit, The Early Years: NDANG Operations 1947-1954. The Early Years features uniforms, artifacts, pictures, and stories from the first seven years of the North Dakota Air National Guard. Exhibit signage shares the history from the NDANG’s inception in the late 1940s, through the Korean War era, and up to the unit’s transition to jet fighter interceptors in 1954.

The FMWF Chamber will assist in the ribbon cutting alongside Max Sabin, the Fargo Air Museum’s Collections Manager. Q & A to follow. Regular admission applies. Museum members are able to attend the event at no cost.

While many around the world love the P-51 Mustang, many don’t know that its service with the United States carried on after World War II, well into the 1950s in fact. The Fargo Air Museum and newest exhibit explores a chapter of local history that many today don’t know much about, and that is the presence of these iconic war birds being based right here in Fargo. We would love to see the community come out to the Fargo Air Museum to learn more about the early days of the North Dakota Air National Guard and the men that made up that first group of airmen after World War II.

– Max Sabin, Collections Manager, Fargo Air Museum