Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center

Rachel Schwam gave a tour of Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Sagle, Idaho. She is carrying on the operation's after the death last year of her mother and stepfather, who founded the collection of vintage aircraft and cars south of Sandpoint. Pamela Riddle Bird and two friends were killed in a small plane crash near Hope, Idaho, on Oct. 8, 2015. Just two months earlier, her husband, the renowned inventor Dr. Forrest Bird, died at age of 94.

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Mon., Sept. 12, 2016

Rachel Schwam gives a tour of the Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center in Sagle, Idaho, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. She is carrying on the operation after the death last year of her mother and stepfather, who founded the collection of vintage aircraft and cars south of Sandpoint. Pamela Riddle Bird and two friends were killed in a small plane crash near Hope, Idaho, on Oct. 8, 2015. Just two months earlier, her husband, the renowned inventor Dr. Forrest Bird, died at the age of 94.

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Mementos from the life of Dr. Forrest Bird are on display at the Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center. Bird, a renowned inventor and aviator, died last year at age 94.

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Rachel Schwam was born premature in 1983 and was treated with the use of an infant respirator designed by Dr. Forrest Bird, who would later become her stepfather. The photograph of Schwam as an infant was on display at Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center in Sagle, Idaho, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.

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An Apple 2 computer autographed by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is on display at Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center in Sagle, Idaho, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.

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This 1927 Waco GXE aircraft is on display at the Bird Aviation Museum and Invention Center in Sagle, Idaho, on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016.

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