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

Jay Honeck wrote:

Can you add any more to this list?

Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs Airport, CA (KPSP)

http://www.air-museum.org/

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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

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, David Brooks wrote:

Around he The Museum of Flight, the small Olympia museum, and the
Tillamook hangar.

The Olympia museum is a nice small museum, and there's an FBO right next
door with lots of parking. Earlier this year 14 Canadian aircraft
cluttered the place up, and they still had room for more. (Victoria
Flying Club group flyout; the entire Club rental fleet plus three or four private
planes! About 40 people...)

Olympia museum also has impressively deep pockets - they restore jets to
flight status, and then fly them, and none of that is cheap! Nice folks,
too.

Brian.


For the MoF, I'm not certain that transient parking is usually available in
the SW corner of BFI, but I believe it is. If so, you can park in the shadow
of the Concorde, but you do have to walk around the building to the street
side right now.

-- David Brooks

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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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"

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Jim Austin wrote:

Jay Honeck wrote:
Can you add any more to this list?

Check this one out, I taxied right up to the front door and enjoyed the
visit:

http://www.tnairmuseum.com/index2.html

Cool site, but too bad it seems to be solid Flash from one end to the
other.

It does look like a good museum, though...

Brian.

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

http://www.southernmuseumofflight.org/ Located at the airport in
Birmingham, Alabama. Two blocks from Birmingham International Airport.

Right up the road form me in Tullahoma, Tennessee is the Staggerwing museum.
www.staggerwing.com. It's a 20 minute flight for me. Never made it. Will
one day soon. Other than pretty much any low wing plane, the Staggerwing is
the sexiest plane ever made.

You USED to be able to fly into the National Naval Aviation Museum down in
Pensacola. This has gotta be one of the best, highest quality museums ever
made. Sure naval.aviation.museum/intro.html. What a shame that we can't
fly there anymore. But there's still a ramp that goes right up to the
entrance so there may be hope one day that we can fly there again.

--
Jim Fisher

"Michael 182" wrote in message
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And Rhinebeck, NY - never been there but I've heard it's great.

Rhinebeck is a great flying museum... they don't just have vintage aircraft,
they FLY them.
Not many other places you can hear the sound of a rotary engine and the
smell of burning castor oil :-)

Website: http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/

And from their FAQ:
Q: Can I land my aircraft at the Aerodrome?
A: . We discourage general aviation aircraft, but welcome antiques as long
as their performance is compatible with the limitations of our airfield.
Feel free to bcall the Aerodrome at (845) 752-3200 to discuss the
particulars of your aircraft and our airfield.

Eric

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

Charlotte, NC

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


Lone Star Flight Museum - Galveston Tx http://www.lsfm.org/
Highland Lakes Squadron CAF Museum - Burnet Tx
http://www.gtwn-sqr.com/caf/index-1.htm

Cheers!
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

Jay Honeck wrote:

Can you add any more to this list?

The Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Owl's Head Maine (RKD). There's also a
small one at Colleg Park, Maryland, if the TSA ever opens the airport back up.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

John Clear wrote:

The runway there is not
up to modern standards, to put it mildly. The runway has a hill
at one end, a big dip in the middle, trees all around and a gravel
road running across the middle of it. IIRC, the length is in the
1500ft range, but don't quote me on that. I've never flown in,
just watched the show from the ground.

For what it's worth, I took a look and decided that getting my Maule out of there
with my family on board and half tanks would be very dicey.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."