Can You Name an "Aircraft-Accessible" Aviation Museum?

There's a small WWII museum at PUB (Pueblo, CO). It's right behind
the FBO.

As of a month ago, they are still open, and reported they had for now gotten
over the money crunch.

Ron

Paul Tomblin wrote:

In a previous article, "Jay Honeck" said:
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

The National Warplane Museum is right next door to the FBO at Elmira.
However, considering how much financial trouble they appeared to be in
last time I looked, I wouldn't bet on them still being in business next
time you fly there.

The Canadian National Aviation Museum
http://www.aviation.nmstc.ca/eng/english_home.html
is at Rockcliffe Airport in Ottawa, and it appears you can taxi over, but
I've never tried it.

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On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 22:01:09 GMT, "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
The Canadian warplane museum is at the Hamilton ont. airport

The Canadian bushplane museum is on the St. Marys river in Sault Ste.
Maria. Free docking if you have a floatplane.
Drew Dalgleish

The Canadian bushplane museum is on the St. Marys river in Sault Ste.
Maria. Free docking if you have a floatplane.
Drew Dalgleish

I was there last summer. Great museum with plenty of history of the
Canadian fire-bombers and some great sea-planes/bush planes you won't see
anywhere else. (several that are open to you to crawl around on/in) But I
thought that they closed the sea-plane base down or I would have mentioned
it. Anyway, I'm headed back next summer. Weekend trip to Mackinac Island
with a day trip up to Sault Ste. Marie (UP MI side) and a taxi ride over to
the museum.
--
Jim Burns III

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On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 17:07:31 -0600, "Jim" wrote:

The Canadian bushplane museum is on the St. Marys river in Sault Ste.
Maria. Free docking if you have a floatplane.
Drew Dalgleish

I was there last summer. Great museum with plenty of history of the
Canadian fire-bombers and some great sea-planes/bush planes you won't see
anywhere else. (several that are open to you to crawl around on/in) But I
thought that they closed the sea-plane base down or I would have mentioned
it. Anyway, I'm headed back next summer. Weekend trip to Mackinac Island
with a day trip up to Sault Ste. Marie (UP MI side) and a taxi ride over to
the museum.
--
Jim Burns III

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I haven't been there yet but it's way up near the top of the list.
I've been told that if I fly in my plane becomes an exibit while I'm
there and if you're going in the back door so to speak it's free
admission.
Drew

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Can you add any more to this list?

Good project for this summer!

I did fly to the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field to attend an event, but
there was no parking that day due to a couple of biplanes hawking rides. I
seem to remember that aircraft parking is available on non-event days but
only with prior notice.

I will check out the Warbird museum at Olympia, Wa. and report back.

Dittos with McMinnville, Ore. and the Spruce Goose, but I expect Ousterhout
or Springer will report in before I do.

Rich S.

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 14:57:50 -0800, "Rich S."
wrote:

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:FeGKb.751015$HS4.5883554@attbi_s01...

Can you add any more to this list?

Good project for this summer!

I did fly to the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field to attend an event, but
there was no parking that day due to a couple of biplanes hawking rides. I
seem to remember that aircraft parking is available on non-event days but
only with prior notice.

I will check out the Warbird museum at Olympia, Wa. and report back.

Dittos with McMinnville, Ore. and the Spruce Goose, but I expect Ousterhout
or Springer will report in before I do.

Rich S.


Museum of Flight at BFI no longer allows general parking on their ramp
(or so the individual on the phone told me during the 100 years of
flight centennial event).

I've parked at the Warbird Museum in Olympia but it was during a
"Classic Aircraft Fly-In". I don't know if they allow parking on
their ramp when such an event is not underway....

At McMinnville, the museum is across the street from the airport.
You can park where ever you want (within reason) on the airport
and it's a relatively easy walk to the museum.

Bela P. Havasreti

"Bela P. Havasreti" wrote in message
...
Museum of Flight at BFI no longer allows general parking on their ramp
(or so the individual on the phone told me during the 100 years of
flight centennial event).

It is kind of ironic that http://www.museumofflight.org/visit/ doesn't tell
you how to fly there.

-- David Brooks

"David Brooks" wrote in message
...
It is kind of ironic that http://www.museumofflight.org/visit/ doesn't
tell
you how to fly there.

Ironic? Given that (according to Bela) they no longer allow you to park at
the museum, I think it makes perfect sense that they don't bother to tell
you how to fly there.

That said, from their FAQ:

Q. Can I fly in and park my aircraft at the Museum while I visit?
A. Yes. We can accommodate several visiting aircraft. You must
contact our Security Department in advance to make arrangements.

If the person Bela talked to was correct, they ought to update their web
site.

Also, even if you can't fly in, it does seem a little silly that nowhere
obvious on their web site do they mention that they are actually located AT
an airport. The "can I fly in" question implies that, but still doesn't
mention at *which* airport they are, not in that particular Q&A (the first
question does mention it, but it wouldn't be where you'd look if you were
thinking of flying in).

You can find references to Boeing Field on the web site, but you either have
to use their search feature to find the pages, or go browsing around in
non-obvious places to find the references. And you have to suspect in the
first place that it's located at an airport, since there doesn't seem to be
any mention of that in the top-level pages for visitor information.

I don't know if it really qualifies as ironic, but for sure it's pretty lame
that they aren't more forthcoming about the airport-based nature of the
museum. Even if you can't fly in.

Pete

David Brooks wrote:

"Bela P. Havasreti" wrote in message
...
Museum of Flight at BFI no longer allows general parking on their ramp
(or so the individual on the phone told me during the 100 years of
flight centennial event).

It is kind of ironic that http://www.museumofflight.org/visit/ doesn't
tell you how to fly there.

Even if one cannot fly right up to a museum, it seems reasonable that "how
to get here by air" should be a part of any aviation museum's web site.
I've suggested this to:

http://www.cradleofaviation.org/

to little effect, unfortunately.

Another museum on an airport's grounds is:

http://www.njahof.org/

I've just recommended to them that they add "how to fly here" to their
"directions" page.

- Andrew