The Washington Airline Society meets in the Briefing Room of the National Air and Space Museum (Smithsonian Institution), located in the Mall in Washington, DC. Free parking is available on nearby streets after 6:30 PM. The L' Enfant Plaza Metro station has a nearby entrance. Tell the security guards you're going to the Washington Airline Society meeting and they will direct you to the briefing room.

Meetings are usually held on the last Wednesday of each month, starting at 7 PM. We do not meet in December.

Exact meeting dates and topics are subject to occasional change: updated information on the next meeting can be found in our monthly Eye on the Sky newsletter.

Past Meeting Topics

February 2010 - State of the Aircraft Industry - Explaining What Has Happened and Ways of Predicting the Future
Presenter - Dr. Adam Pilarski, Senior Vice President of Avitas, Inc.

January 2010 - The A320 - A History of Airbus' Best Selling Family
Presenter - Simon Pickup, Director of Business Operations for Airbus North America

2009

November 2009 - Finding the Friendly Skies: Creating Airline Meteorology in the Interwar United States
Presenter - Roger Turner, Guggenheim Fellow, NASM & Ph.D. Candidate in History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania

October 2009 - Arik Air - The Wings of Nigeria
Presenter - Captain Jim Mason, Aviation Consultant & Air Canada (retired)

September 2009 - Siberia Via Aeroflot
Presenter - Ron Davies, WAS Senior Advisor

August 2009 - Movie Night
Screening of the 2001 Australian movie "The Dish" (40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11)

July 2009 - Summer Fun
Presenter - Manuel Knight, WAS Member

June 2009 - BWI Operations
Presenter - James Walsh, Deputy Executive Director of Finance and Marketing at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)

May 2009 - History of Pan Am
Presenter - Kelly Cusak, WAS Member (link to his website)

April 2009 - Frankly Speaking - Reflections on A Career with the Airlines
Peg Frank and Sedge Moss, WAS members interviewed by Marc Wojno

March 2009 - Northern Exposure - Classic Prop Airliners in Alaska
Presenter - Ralph Pettersen, WAS member

February 2009 - What New at JetBlue?
Presenter - Rob Land, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs - JetBlue Airways

January 2009 - Convair 880 & 990
Presenter - Marc Wojno, WAS President

2008

November 2008 - Deregulation at 30
Presenters - WAS Members & Guests Roundtable Discussion

October 2008 - The Legend of the Gimley Glider - A Firsthand Account
Presenters - Captain Jim Mason & Captain Robert Pearson, Air Canada (retired)

September 2008 - Working for That Wonderful Airline - TWA
Presenter - George Hamlin, WAS Member

July 2008 - Direction of Air Transport in the 21st Century
Presenter - Ron Davies, Curator of Air Transport NASM

June 2008 - Operation Skyshield
Presenter - Roger Mola, Aviation Journalist

May 2008 - Aircraft Engines: Drivers of the Airline Industry
Presenter - Jeremy Kinney, Curator of Aircraft Engines NASM

April 2008 - The Third Jet Era: The Airbus A380 & WAS 30th Anniversary
Presenter - Simon Pickup, Director of Business Operations, Airbus–Americas

March 2008 - Role of Airports in Starting Airline Service
Presenter - Mark Treadaway, Metro Washington Airports Authority (MWAA)

February 2008 - Saudia Arabian Airlines
Presenter - Manuel Knight, WAS Member

January 2008 - TU-144 Soviet Flyer
Presenter - Marc Wojno, WAS President

2007

November 2007 - Winter Wonderland
Presenters - Bud Nusbaum & Bob Yarko, United Airlines

October 2007 - Flying the Convair 580
Presenter - Captain Al Minich, Midwest Express

September 2007 - The Potomac Consolidated TRACON Story
Presenter - Randy Horner, FAA

July 2007 - What was Your First Commercial Flight Experience?
Presenters - WAS Members

June 2007 - Come Take a Ride on the Hindenberg
Presenter - Cheryl R. Ganz, Curator of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum

May 2007 - Pan American History
Presenter - Thor Johnson, Former Pan Am Vice President

March 2007 - The History and Future of BWI
Presenter - Paul Shank, Deputy Executive Director, Facilities Development & Engineering, Maryland Department of Transportation, Maryland Aviation Administration

February 2007 - A Brief History of (Airline) Time
Photos from George Hamlin's collection on www.jetphotos.net
Presenter - George Hamlin, WAS Member

January 2007 - The Jumbo Jet Revolution Part 2: 1980 to Today
Presenter - Marc Wojno, WAS President

2006

November 2006 - Something Special in the AAir
Presenters - Karleen Hagan and Captain Steve Wyble, American Airlines

October 2006 - My Personal Air Canada Fleet Favorites
Presenter - Captain Jim Mason, Air Canada

September 2006 - Plane Palette
Presenters - WAS members

August 2006 - Here Comes Ted!
Presenter - Bill Grella, WAS Vice President

July 2006 - The NAMC YS11
Presenter - Roger Bentley, WAS Founder

June 2006 - Douglas Commercial Complete 1933 – 2006
Presenter - Robin Dunn, WAS President

May 2006 - Members Annual Slide Extravaganza
Presenters - WAS Members

April 2006 - British Airways – An Airline and Its Aircraft Vol. I
Presenter - Ron Davies, Curator of Air Transport NASM

March 2006 - Imperial Airways – Video History
Presenter - WAS member

February 2006 - Rescuing Airliner Print and Media History
Presenter - Steve Rhodes, Founder, RareAviation.com

January 2006 - Changes In Aircraft Manufacturing and Its Impact on the US Economy
Presenter - Dr. David Pritchard, Founder and Publisher, Pravco Aviation Review

2005

November 2005 - The Wonderful Wide Body
Presenter - Marc Wojno, WAS Member

October 2005 - The Vickers Type 1000
Presenter - Robin Dunn, WAS President

September 2005 - The Pride of Piedmont
Presenter - Frank Elliott, Winston-Salem,NC based journalist

August 2005 - Chicago O'Hare Airport - Expansion Plans
Presenter - D. Plaza, WAS Member

July 2005 - Icelandair: Trans-Atlantic Pioneer
Presenter - Debbie Scott, Manager of Communications & Media Relations for the
Americas, Icelandair

June 2005 - The Airline No-One Knows - UPS
Presenter - Mike Burris

May 2005 - Laker’s Secret Weapon: The Carvair
Presenter - Niall Booth

April 2005 - The Lockheed Constellation
Presenter - Ralph Petersen, WAS member

March 2005 - The The Plane of Tomorrow?
Presenter - Ron Davies, Curator of Air Transport NASM

February 2005 - The Embraer 190 - JetBlue's Regional Jet of Choice
Presenter - Al Spain, JetBlue Airways

January 2005 - The DC-9
Presenter - Robin Dunn, WAS President