Honoring the Innovative Spirit
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1 Honoring the Innovative Spirit “American Airmen characteristically view our nation’s security challenges differently—globally and without boundaries. Our successes are based on Airmen adapting, innovating, and pioneering new solutions to intractable problems. The Doolittle Raiders are the epitome of this innovative spirit of airmanship. We owe these 80 men, as well as their Army and Navy teammates, a debt of gratitude. Thank you for inspiring all of us, every day since then.” Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning, speaking at the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders’ Final Celebration and Toast at the National Museum of the United States Air Force®, November 9, 2013 We dedicate our 2013 Annual Report to the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders of 1942 and their innovative spirit. Our Mission he Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc was chartered in 1960 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the purpose of assisting the TUnited States Air Force Museum (now the National Museum of the United States Air Force or NMUSAF) in its efforts to engage and educate the public on the important role of the USAF in our nation's defense. We serve as a philanthropic corporation that supports the development and expansion of the facilities of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. In addition, the Foundation provides limited funds each year to the Museum for special projects and underwrites several programs involving a wide range of activities geared toward education, volunteer support, special events, and promotional efforts. The National Museum of the United States Air Force is a USAF facility that is funded by the Air Force for normal operations and maintenance costs. 2 Campaign continues in A Message from the Chairman order to fund the additional options (priced at $4.8 million), funding the full- size fourth building is truly a ear Friends of the National Museum of the United States Air monumental achievement, DForce, particularly in these very tough financial times. Once again I extend heartfelt thanks for your stalwart support over the past year. The many good things the Foundation Additional highlights of achieved were motivated and sustained by that support, your 2013 were a four-day high expectations, and your passion for the Museum’s ever-more- Real Stuff Film Festival in important mission. April and a truly historic, 71-years-in-the-making, The year began with renovation of the Air Force Museum Theatre, Doolittle Tokyo Raiders’ which replaced our outdated IMAX® system with digital 3D Final Celebration and Toast projectors, and added 20-speaker Dolby® 7.1 sound, new seats, in early November, all carpet, and a reconfigured stage. The $800,000 project enhances funded by the Foundation. Theatre appeal and flexibility for a wider variety of movies and Theatre uses. A Museum Store reconfiguration and upgrade, As you will read in the as well as opening of a satellite “Refueling Café” have likewise pages that follow, 2013 improved the Museum visitor experience and boosted revenues was a tough year in terms for those businesses. of net revenue. A decrease Lt Gen (Ret) Richard V. Reynolds in Museum visitation, Chairman, Board of Managers In early spring, cuts in Museum operations funds driven by the driven by sequestration Budget Control Act of 2011 (aka “Sequestration”) resulted in the and resultant temporary closure of the Presidential Aircraft and Foundation gifting $42,000 to the Air Force to keep the Museum Research and Development galleries, impacted Foundation open seven days a week. This unprecedented action preserved business revenue. However, the biggest impact on the bottom over $300,000 in Foundation gross revenue which would have line resulted from un-budgeted-for expenses for legal and otherwise been lost due to closure of our businesses. financial services driven by the bank loan negotiations. The prospect of making a multi-million dollar gift to the Air Force More changes are ahead in 2014, including a new Foundation for fourth building construction created the need to finance Executive Director, and Board of Managers leadership. While donor pledges already secured, but scheduled to be paid in it will be hard to top the improvements and monumental future years. As a result, we undertook a major effort to secure achievements of 2013, you can count on your Foundation staff two bank loans, totaling $8.8 million plus a $2 million line of and volunteers giving their very best in the name of building a credit, with First Financial Bank of Dayton, Ohio. better Foundation, and a bigger and better National Museum of the United States Air Force! In early August, the Army Corps of Engineers released a Request for Proposal for fourth building construction to five prequalified With utmost respect and gratitude, bidders, and by early October, evaluation on these proposals began. The questions surrounding this were: “What is the real cost, what size building, and which of the additional other proposal options (tow paths, gallery lighting, and additional Lt Gen (Ret) Richard V. Reynolds, USAF Foundation revenue spaces) would our available funding buy?” Chairman, Board of Managers When the Corps announced the winning bidder and price in early Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. December, I cannot tell you how thrilled we were to learn that our available funds would cover construction of the full 224,000 square foot fourth building! Even though the Expanding the Legacy 3 Our Board of Managers Pictured Top to Bottom, Left to Right Board Members not pictured Col (Ret) Michael B. Goetz Mr. Philip L. Soucy Mr. Gregory G. Lockhart, President Maj Gen (Ret) E. Ann Harrell CMSgt (Ret) Eric R. Jaren Col (Ret) Susan E. Richardson Mr. Gary G. Stephenson, Vice President Mr. Jon G. Hazelton Col (Ret) William S. Harrell Mr. Robert J. Suttman II CFA, Treasurer Gen (Ret) William J. Begert Mr. Charles F. Kettering III Col (Ret) James B. Schepley Mr. David C. Evans The Honorable Claude M. Bolton Jr. Col (Ret) Pamela A. Melroy Dr. Deborah E. Barnhart, CAPT (Ret), USN Lt Gen (Ret) Richard V. Reynolds, Chairman Dr. Thomas J. Burns, PhD Mr. Patrick L. McGohan Mr. Harry W. (Wes) Stowers Jr. Ms. Frances A. Duntz, Secretary Lt Gen (Ret) Charles H. Coolidge Jr. Gen (Ret) T. Michael Moseley Col (Ret) Mark N. Brown Maj Gen (Ret) Charles S. Cooper III Gen (Ret) Charles T. Robertson Jr. Lt Gen (Ret) Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. Mr. Scott J. Seymour Mr. Charles J. Faruki 4 Mission Successes $85,657,615 Total invested since 1960 to construct and upgrade NMUSAF buildings 94 Percent Amount of NMUSAF buildings directly funded by Foundation business revenue, investments, and donations $5,774,766 2013 Gross Revenue $1,646,855 2013 Net Income $800,000 Invested in Theatre renovation and conversion from IMAX® film format to a 400-seat, state-of-the-art digital 3D projection system and Dolby® 7.1 sound system $249,330 Given to NMUSAF in 2013 for educational and special events and Doolittle Tokyo Raiders’ Final Celebration and Toast 8,000 Attendees at NMUSAF Space Fest, May 4, 2013 570 Number of loved ones honored on Legacy Data Plate Wall of Honor 500+ NMUSAF volunteers honored at annual Volunteer Appreciation Banquet 5 Doolittle TokyoRaiders’ Final Celebration and Toast n April 18, 1942, 80 men achieved the unimaginable when Othey took off from an aircraft carrier on a top secret mission to bomb Japan. These men, led by Lt Col James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle, came to be known as the Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Their surprising and daring raid on military targets at Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, and Kobe carried the Battle of the Pacific to the heart of the Japanese empire, providing a morale boost as well as a tactical victory less than six months after the Japanese attacked U.S. forces at Pearl Harbor. This heroic attack was as innovative as it was daring and was the result of coordination between the U.S. Army Air Forces and the U.S. Navy, which carried the sixteen North American B-25 medium bombers aboard the carrier USS Hornet to within takeoff distance of the Japanese Islands. Lt Col (Ret) Richard “Dick” E. Cole opens the 1896 bottle of cognac To commemorate this historic achievement, the Air Force hosted before sharing the final toast with his fellow Doolittle Tokyo Raiders. Cole three of the four remaining Raiders on November 9, 2013 at the was the copilot of Aircraft No. 1. National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, with events that included a wreath-laying ceremony, a B-25 flyover, and an invitation-only ceremony in which the three crewmembers made their final toast The Air Force Museum Foundation to their fallen comrades. gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors Acting Secretary of the Air Force Eric Fanning spoke at the day’s who made this historic event at events, giving tribute to the “innovative spirit of Airmanship” the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force possible: exemplified by the Doolittle Tokyo Raid. Also attending was Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen Mark A. Welsh III, who observed that “Jimmy Doolittle and his Raiders...pioneered the concept Veterans Airlift Command The Chuck Balaj Family of global strike...the idea that no target on earth is safe from Moët Hennessy USA Kathy & Scott Seymour American air power.” EADS North America, Inc./Airbus Greene County Convention Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. & Visitors Bureau Stowers Machinery Corporation Cox Media Group Ohio Air Force Association Mr. Charles J. Faruki Mr. Patrick L. McGohan Lt Gen (Ret) Dick Mr. Richard H. Robb & Joani Reynolds & Ms. Rebecca E. Crown Robert & Erma Scott Thomas & Anne Burns Gary & Debbie Stephenson Riverside Research Holiday Inn Dayton Fairborn Huntington Bank Chief of Staff of the Air Force Gen Mark A.