Yes... It Will Actually Be A Mickey Mouse Kind Of Affair!

An exclusive Private Viewing Party for Walt Disney's Grumman Gulfstream I plane will take place this weekend, Saturday, October 15 at 5:30 PM at the Palm Springs Air Museum.

Disney Archivist Ed Ovalle will speak about the airplane's history. Beer, wine, soft drinks and light hors d'oeuvres will be served. Admission is $50 for the general public, $40 for Palm Springs Air Museum members and for D23 Gold Members.

The Gulfstream Jet will then go on display for the general public starting Sunday, October 16. In addition, a new exhibit will be constructed at the Museum and open on Walt Disney's birthday, December 5, 2022. Palm Spring Air Museum, guests will have the opportunity to learn about the role this iconic plane has played throughout the Company's history.

In 1963, Walt Disney acquired a Gulfstream I that would come to be known as The Mouse. The plane’s interior, initially designed with input from Walt and his wife, Lillian, seated up to 15 passengers and included a galley, two restrooms, two couches, a desk, and numerous nods to the speech-impeded, anthropomorphized mouse that started the Disney behemoth rolling. Even the mouse’s initials were insinuated into the airplane’s registration number, which in 1967 was changed to N234MM.

Over the duration of its 28 years of service to The Walt Disney Company, N234MM flew 20,000 hours and transported an estimated 83,000 passengers before it was grounded in 1992 and made part of the Studio Backlot Tour at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios) in Florida.

The Palm Springs Air Museum is a living history museum that contains over 75 vintage airframes. the Museum is open daily from 10 am until 5 PM. Kids 12 and under get in free with paid adult admission. The Palm Springs Air Museum is an educational non-profit organization whose mission is to Preserve, Educate and Honor.

FMI: www.PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org