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Old January 9th 04, 03:33 PM
Pete
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ditto on the dupes....

Then there's Ottawa Canada's great museum with an attached strip (short car
ride around the field to get to the museum enterence). Ottawa-Rockcliffe
Airport (CYRO) N45 27 37 W75 38 46
http://www.rfc.ca/NewSite/Arr_dep.htm
http://www.rfc.ca/
http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/e...lish_home.html

Cheers,
Pete
Europa Builder

"David Reinhart" wrote in message
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Sorry if these are dupes, but I'm getting in late and looked at about half

the
posts.

There's a small museum at South Jersey Regional (VAY).

There's also one at Cape May County Airport, Cape May, NJ. (WWD).

Dave Reinhart


Jay Honeck wrote:

In another post about the fabulous new Udvar-Hazy Center (part of the
National Air & Space Museum), frustration with not being able to fly

into
this terrific new facility was evident. I personally find it appallingly
ironic that museums which purport to glorify flight are not accessible

by
aircraft, despite being located on an airport.

Which brings to the fore a question: How many aviation museums really

ARE
accessible by light plane? I know, for example, that my two favorite
museums (the Air Force Museum in Ohio, and the Strategic Air Command

Museum
in Nebraska) are NOT accessible by aircraft.

So here's my contributions to this heroic list. Let's hear it for

museum
directors who have sense enough to make their airplanes viewable by

those of
us who might actually fly in!

1. Rantoul, Illinois. The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum You can taxi
right up to this one, and park just a few dozen feet away from an F-14
Tomcat. (Sadly, when we were there last month they had the back door
locked, so we had to walk around to the front of the building. This is

a
giant hangar, so that was no small feat, with kids in tow...)
See it at:
http://www.aeromuseum.org/

2. Topeka, Kansas. Combat Air Museum. Ditto above. Another great

museum
located on the old Forbes Field air base.
See it at http://www.combatairmuseum.org/

3. Greenfield Iowa. Iowa Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame. Small, but

very
good.
See it at http://www.flyingmuseum.com/

4. Ottumwa, Iowa. Airpower Museum and Antique Aircraft Association.

This
is on a small, private, grass strip which is home to the most amazing

annual
fly-in every summer. Call ahead for permission to land.
See it at http://www.aaa-apm.org/ .

5. Oshkosh, WI. EAA Airventure Museum. This one is only "sort of"
accessible by air. When I flew in during the winter in '95, I had to

park
on the opposite side of the airport (miles away) at Basler, and they

drove
us over to the museum.
See it at http://www.airventuremuseum.org/.

Can you add any more to this list?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"