Bravo Zulu - Yagen, Gerald Jerry
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Established from the largest private collection of vintage warplanes in the US, the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, is a time capsule of aviation in the 20th century with an emphasis on World War II. Bravo Zulu is an account of this brainchild of celebrated collector Jerry Yagen and his wife Elaine.

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Established from the largest private collection of vintage warplanes in the US, the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, is a time capsule of aviation in the 20th century with an emphasis on World War II. Bravo Zulu is an account of this brainchild of celebrated collector Jerry Yagen and his wife Elaine.
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Gerald “Jerry” Yagen, founder of Military Aviation Museum, was born in Hamburg, Germany, just a few months after the end of WWII. As the son of an American Army Air Corp commander, he spent much of his childhood on airbases and traveling to other countries. He continued to travel as an adult, often piloting himself and his family in one of his collected planes. Jerry logged more than 4,800 hours in twenty-one different aircraft before retiring from active flying in early 2021. Jerry’s passion for aircraft collection and restoration exploded thirty years ago when he purchased a crashed P-40 Kitty Hawk that had been discovered in northern Russia. He had it shipped to Norfolk, Virginia, and later to New Zealand for restoration. That P-40, a fully restored award-winning, airworthy war plane, is kept in one of seven hangars in rural Virginia Beach, with over eighty other planes and projects, comprising a world-class collection of historic artifacts in the Military Aviation Museum. Jerry is also founder and president of Aviation Institute of Maintenance and Centura College, which operates more than twenty colleges across the US. He was inducted into the Virginia Aviation Hall of Fame in Richmond, Virginia, in 2014. Jerry and his wife Elaine have lived in Virginia Beach for more than fifty years, raising two children (both married), and enjoying four grandchildren.