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December 27th, 2023

No: 2316

Help Make 2024 The Best Year For The Museum!

Estrella Warbirds Museum is seeking your support through financial donations. Your contributions will go directly towards the fulfillment of our mission as we are dedicated to the restoration and preservation of military aircraft, military vehicles and memorabilia to those who flew and worked on military aircraft. Our approach, however, is not to glorify conflict but rather to make a future generation aware of the fact our way of life does not come without sacrifice.  Every donation is tax deductible and a receipt will be furnished to you. Help us continue to inspire and educate visitors from around the world with our collection of historic aircraft and exhibits. We need your assistance to continue our mission and continue to grow. You can make a difference to our community home grown, ever expanding museum! Help us make 2024 our best year ever!


Note: We've listened to your comments and made some changes. We now have more choices in how people can donate. We have added Venmo, use your favorite credit card, or PayPal, and,... you no longer have to go through PayPal to pay with credit card when donating online.

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Wishing You And Yours A Safe And Happy New Year!

January Monthly Dinner

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Bear McGill

Chairman, Honor Flight Central Coast

Wednesday Jan 3d, 2024

No Host Bar: 5:30 p.m., Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m.



We are pleased to host Bear McGill, representing Honor Flight Central Coast, as our dinner speaker for the first dinner in 2024. Most people have heard of Honor Flight and how they honor veterans by taking them to Washington D.C. on their "Tour of Honor". This is a great opportunity to hear first hand how Honor Flight works and what motivates Bear and others to do what they do. I'm sure you'll find the presentation interesting and informative.


Bear McGill is the chairperson of Honor Flight Central Coast. He has lived in Templeton 57 years and has been married to his wife Shelley for 39 years. He has three boys and four grandkids that all still live in the area. He's a retired San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Correctional Deputy and has been the Honor Flight Central Coast California Chairperson for ten years. 

Additional information concerning the local Honor Flight Central Coast can be found by clicking on the name.



Dinner is catered and open to the public ($25/person), reservations are required prior to 6 p.m., Monday prior to dinner, either On-line HERE or call 805 296-1935.

North American T-28B Trojan

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Randy Wilber and Scott Stelzle head down the taxiway for a morning flight in the North American T-28B Trojan. The Trojan is just one of many aircraft on display at the Estrella Warbirds Museum. Stay tuned as we will soon be adding another special aircraft/s to our growing fleet!

We Are Already Making Preparations To Help Estrella Warbirds Museum Have The Best Year Ever In 2024!

Home to the world class Woodland Auto Display:
Come Grow With Us!
The Estrella Warbirds Museum has always been "the place to go" for local meeting, group dinners and even company events. We greet visitors from around the world!

If you enjoy new people and groups, love history and want to be involved in a community project, we'd love to hear from you! We always need volunteers in our gift-shop, or docents in the museum or Auto Display. Maybe you want to get involved in restoration?

Contact us today! We'd love to hear from you.
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Stuck on what to buy for a special person?

There is always the perfect gift of a flight on a real WWII veteran, our C-47B, Betsy's Biscuit Bomber.

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Images above show the seeding of grass on our west parcel before the rains. We hope to have a nice grass field there by the time of our next Warbirds, Wings and Wheels.


Thanks to EWM President John Couch and COO Scott Stelzle, for making this happen and of course getting the seed donation funds secured from our Treasurer, Cindy Bergin.

From the President of Estrella Warbirds Museum, Inc.

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Estrella Warbirds Museum was well represented by individuals and vehicles at the annual San Miguel Christmas parade. Special thanks goes out to all the crew that helped out in any way. We really appreciate all the volunteers that help represent the museum at numerous public events.

Even More Updates!

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If you have not visited our website lately, you may want to head on over there and check out what is new! Header pictures will change each month to give visitors a "Best of Show" selection and stay updated with new and ever changing displays. Changes were also made to the Woodland Auto Display section also.

Featured at Woodland Auto Display

New this month at the Woodland Auto Display facility is the white number 3 Super Modified race car which was driven by Howard Kaeding, commonly known as The Campbell Comet. Howard was a dominate force in the NASCAR West Coast Super Modified Circuit from 1970 thru 1976.


The vehicle was a very unique design for the time, although well within the NASCAR rules. During the 7 year period that it was raced, the duo accounted for at least 125 Main Events on 11 different tracks in 3 states and claimed several NASCAR Championships. In 1973, they scored 17 consecutive wins. During the last year the car was campaigned, it won 18 Main Events.


The #3 Super Modified was retired as the San Jose paved home track was closed and racing was moved to the Santa Clara County Fairgrounds dirt track. The Fairgrounds track required a different type of car. Howard transitioned to Sprint Cars and continued his winning ways. This little white number 3 car is remembered to this day by the many fans of that era.


Howard, at 92, is the patriarch of the Kaeding racing dynasty in Northern California. He was inducted into the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame. Howard's son, Brent, is a multi-time Champion Sprint Car Driver with approximately 400 wins nationally to his credit. Brent was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame as well as the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame.


Howard's two grandsons, Brent's sons, Bud and Tim, are multi time winners and champions at the National level in Sprint Cars and Silver Crown Cars.

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Richard Woodland and Howard Kaeding, the "Campbell Comet" and his #3 NASCAR Super-Modified race car, now on display at the Woodland Auto Display.

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