Air Force Museum

You never know the nuggets of wisdom that you will find on this
newsgroup. I had flown into the Dayton area to go to the USAFM twice
in the past, using both Springfield and Morane airports (for no
particular reason). The night before we left on Friday, I searched the
archives and found several recommendations for Greene County on the
southeast side of the Dayton Class C. I have to echo those
recomendations!
We flew from the Madison, WI area down around the Chicago Class B and
then angled southeast towards Dayton. Great weather as everyone has
discussed recently. Called Greene County while we were about 30
minutes out (in a 182) and had them get a car for us (they were out of
the rentals, so calling or emailing ahead is a really good idea).
Dayton and Wright-Pat were pretty quiet and got into Greene County
pretty easily.

One weird thing is that on short final I saw a car out of the corner
of my eye look like it was driving towards the runway, then disappear.
Only to reappear on the other side. The airport has a two land country
highway go underneath the runway thru a tunnel...! I thought that was
a little different.

As opposed to Morane or Springfield, getting to the Air Force museum
was very easy from Greene County (the easiest of the three I should
say). And we had a nice day looking at the absolutely amazing
collection. Everyone has their favorites, mine would be the two
Italian birds, the Caproni Ca.3 biplane trimotor of LaGuardia fame,
and the unique (only one left) Macchi MC 200 that flew over North
Africa and Malta.

One warning thou, buy your purchases EARLY!!!!
We had budgeted about 30 minutes at the end of the day to buy stuff,
and my dad and I both had an armful of stuff to buy. But at 1650 (the
museum closes at 1700), the Fire Alarm goes off...
EVERYONE OUT NOW!!!! yells the staff and off we go after putting
everything down.
Heartbroken (just kidding) we head out to the car and watch the fire
trucks show up and they close the place down. Just a false alarm, but
No purchases for us however....

So lesson to self, BUY EARLY!

Then we took off and flew north to Sturgeon Bay, WI (across Lake
Michigan) but that is another story.

-Ryan in Madison