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

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

Jay:

Can you (or someone else) collect all these museums and post them
on a website?

thanks

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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Tennessee Museum Of Aviation at Sevierville, TN (Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge
Airport GKT)
P-47 Thunderbolt - sometimes 2 of them,
MIGs
T-6
T-28
Other items of interest as well

http://www.tnairmuseum.com/

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Planes of Fame also has a branch in northern Arizona, at the Valle airport
near the Grand Canyon. I haven't been there, but have heard good reports
from friends who have.

http://www.planesoffame.org/valle.htm

Mike

"Larry Smith" wrote:

I guess the museum is still at Santa Monica, CA and the Planes of Fame
Museum in Chino, both on airports.

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



Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, Texas, KGLS.

From their website at www.lsfm.org -- "Fly-in visits are encouraged--Unicom
123.05"

How about the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton Ontario - CYHM.

www.warplane.com

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


Can you add any more to this list?

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
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? 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"