Classic & Antique Boat Museum & Shop

Featuring the Fantastic Falls Flyer

Welcome to the Mikkelson Collection website.  The Mikkelson Collection consists of over $2,000,000 of classic and antique boats, motors, and items from boating history. Several of the boats and motors are the last surviving examples known to exist, and ALL are rare. 

• About Paul Mikkelson

• Photo Gallery
• Video Highlights:
  • On-the-Road with Jason Davis
• Out 'N About with RJ Fritz
• Ron Schara's Minnesota Bound
• The Restoration  Process, documenting the  1942 21' Deluxe Falls Flyer Split Cockpit Inboard

• Collection Inventory

• Museum Tours

• Finding Us

Read about the Mikkelson Collection

from the Spring 2002 Edition of

"Rudder", the official magazine of the

Antique & Classic Boat Society

Highlights of the Collection

• Collected by curator Paul Mikkelson of the Mikkelson Collection, Inc.

• A rotating collection of over 25 fully restored, water ready boats.

• Boondoggle, reputed to be the only single cockpit inboard Larson Falls Flyer Speedster ever built.

• Both split-cockpit inboard Falls Flyers known to exist are owned by the museum.

• One of two 21’ Deluxe Inboard Falls Flyers known to exist.  

• 2 Consecutive serial numbered 1939 Falls Flyer outboards.

• Over 100 vintage outboard motors, all original or restored, water ready motors.

  • Johnson, Mercury, Evinrude, Scott-Atwater, Elto, Caille, Waterman, Koban, Lockwood-Ash, Wisconsin, Martin, Bendix, Champion, Neptune, Clarke.

• A unique collection of “hand and foot” powered outboard motors.

• Over 500 vintage toy boats.

  • Wood, metal, plastic

  • Military, Racing, Sail, R/C, Gas, and Rubber Binder. 

• Over 500 vintage toy outboard motors. 

  • Friction, clockwork, electric & steam, gas, wind, and rubber binder powered.

The Mikkelson Collection

Paul D. Mikkelson

418 Benson Avenue S.E.  Willmar, MN  56201

Museum & Fax  1-320-231-0384

Home 1-320-235-0367

Cell 1-612-868-9814

paultmci@msn.com

© 2001-05 The Mikkelson Collection Museum, Inc.

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