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Old January 7th 04, 08:00 PM
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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22. Around he The Museum of Flight (WHERE IS "HERE"? :-)


Sorry: the Pacific Northwest. http://www.museumofflight.org/, right by the
end of BFI 13R.

-- David Brooks


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Old January 7th 04, 08:32 PM
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Warhawk Air Museum located that the Nampa, Idaho airport (S67).
http://www.warhawkairmuseum.org/
http://www.sadona.com/nampa_air/

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/Schreder



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There is also a small helicopter museum at Lenhardt's Airpark in Hubbard
Oregon.

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Old January 7th 04, 08:36 PM
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Wildwood, New Jersey Naval Air Station museum

http://www.usnasw.org/


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Old January 7th 04, 09:00 PM
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25. New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport, (BDL) Windsor
Locks, CT. They have a website ,but it appears to be down.


The only time I visited, I went by car. As I recall, it's a separate
entrance from the airline terminal. I don't know how it stands with
respect to GA.

Very nice museum. It has an early Cub, maybe a J-2? No brakes, in any
event. A Corsair with a stairs for kids' tour groups; I sweet-talked
the docent into letting me go up and sit in the cockpit, a real
thrill. A B-47 outdoors (maybe indoors now?) that I also went through,
since I was at a B-47 vets' reunion. A wonderful old flying boat, with
a vintage car to go with it. A gift shop with none of my books in it



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Old January 7th 04, 09:10 PM
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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WOW! I had no idea this thread would be so productive! Here is the list,
compiled from all of your posts

I'm going to add a page of these museums to our aviation-theme hotel's
website, once we've got it compiled. What a terrific tool this will be!

Add more if you can!


Jay,

Valparaiso, IN - Indiana Aviation Museum
http://www.in-am.org/

We offer rides in the airplanes.
I know Al Stix does rides at Creve Coeur also.

You might consider including that info for the museums who offer it.

Kris


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Old January 7th 04, 11:07 PM
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Add another to your list: The Reynolds-Alberta Museum, at Wetaskiwin,
Alberta, Canada, ident CEX3, not far south of Edmonton. It's a great
collection of antique cars, trucks, tractors and airplanes. Right on
the airport.
See http://www.eidnet.org/local/aqueduct/ram.htm

Dan
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Old January 7th 04, 11:22 PM
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How about the Western Museum of Flight at Hawthorne Muni. in Los Angeles (HHR)

http://www.wmof.com/

Craig.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:%rVKb.85315$xX.597512@attbi_s02...
WOW! I had no idea this thread would be so productive! Here is the list,
compiled from all of your posts. As you can see, some are more complete
than others. If anyone can add some of the missing information, please do
so!

For example, some people didn't post what STATE their suggested museum was
in. Can someone familiar with the area please add this? Ditto with website
URLs, and anything else you might know.

I'm going to add a page of these museums to our aviation-theme hotel's
website, once we've got it compiled. What a terrific tool this will be!

Add more if you can!

Aircraft-Accessible Aviation Museums



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 parkon
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/.

6. Kansas City, MO (MKC) Airline History Museum

http://www.airlinehistorymuseum.com/



7. The Mid America Air Museum in Liberal, KS. It has about 100 aircraft in
it and on the ramp and is located on the airport at Liberal. One of Max
Conrad's record breaking Comanches is on display there.
http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueON99/liberal.html



8. College Park has a nice museum adjacent to the FBO "buildings". Of
course you have to have prior permission to fly in the CGS these days.
I've been through the fingerprinting and rectal probing required however.

9. The Virginia Air Museum at Richmond International is on the airport
property and one of the FBO's is right next door, so you can walk from your
plane to the
museum.

10. The Kalamazoo air museum is on the field and I can't remember if I got a
lift over there from the FBO or not.



11. 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.

12. 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.



13. There is also the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton where
you can taxi up and park on the museum ramp. If you visit the museum they
will
also waive the landing fees. CYHM. www.warplane.com



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



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



16. WNC Air Museum is in Hendersonville, NC and is accessible by two
runways --- 0A7 and the Museum's own sod field. www.wncairmuseum.com



17. The museum at Santa Monica, CA http://www.museumofflying.com/ will open
in 2004.



18. The Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA.



19. 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



20. Here's another: http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/gillespie/ Gillespie
Field Annex From a small one-hangar beginning, the San Diego Aerospace
Museum's annex at Gillespie Field has grown to become an integral part of
the Museum's aircraft restoration and replica reproduction program.

21. 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



22. Around he The Museum of Flight (WHERE IS "HERE"? :-)



23. The small Olympia museum. The Olympia museum is a nice small museum,
and there's an FBO right next door with lots of parking.



24. the Tillamook hangar.



25. New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport, (BDL) Windsor
Locks, CT. They have a website ,but it appears to be down.



26. The Warbird Museum in Titusville, FL is accessible from GA.



27. Reading Airport, Reading PA has a museum you can easily walk to from
one of the FBOs.



28. The Shuttleworth Trust Museum, Biggleswade UK. Grass runway as I recall
but it has been at least 15 years since I was there.



29. Castle Air Museum, http://www.elite.net/castle-air/. Right next
oor -- easy walking distance -- to KMER (Castle Airport, Merced), the old
Castle Airforce Base. (yes, you get 11,000' of runway to play with and an
apron built for dozens of B-52s on the way to the tiedowns). The museum
itself is great -- everything from an SR-71 and a B-52 to a Cessna "Blue
Canoe". I've spent several days there... (but the food there is dreadful).



30. The CAFÉ museum at Galveston and the Museum at Midland are both
accessible. I like the on in Galveston better, but the one in Midland has
more made up exhibits



31. Check this one out, I taxied right up to the front door and enjoyed the
visit: http://www.tnairmuseum.com/index2.html



32. The Staggerwing Museum at Tullahoma, Tennessee (THA).
www.staggerwing.com



33. Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight, near Lakeland, Fl.



34. Tennessee Museum Of Aviation at Sevierville, TN (Gatlinburg-Pigeon Forge
Airport GKT) http://www.tnairmuseum.com/



35. Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, NC (CLT)
http://www.chacweb.com/

36. Petticord Foundation for Aircraft Construction in Asheboro, NC (HBI)
(704) 359-8442

37. Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, NC (FFA)
http://www.nps.gov/wrbr/indepth/grounds_menu.htm

38. Civil Air Patrol and Manteo Navy Aviation Air Station Museum in Manteo,
NC (MQI) http://www.fly2mqi.com/museum.asp



39. Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, Texas, KGLS. From their website at
www.lsfm.org -- "Fly-in visits are encouraged-Unicom 123.05"



40. Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs Airport, CA (KPSP)
http://www.air-museum.org/



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

42. The Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Owl's Head Maine (RKD).



43. The Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, Carl Spatz Field
(KRDG) http://www.maam.org/ Request taxi to the museum. Open daily.
Don't miss their WW II weekends, usually the first weekend of June. "The
Museum's collection includes award-winning warbirds, classic airliners, rare
& unusual military and civilian aircraft and historic exhibits."

44, The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Bradley Intl
Airport (KBDL). http://www.neam.org/cont_about.htm Inquire FBO about a
courtesy shuttle to the museum. Open daily.

45. The Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey at Teterboro Airport,
(KTEB). http://www.njahof.org/ Open Tues-Sun 10-4. Not sure about ramp
or courtesy shuttles, KTEB can be extremely busy, so best to call ahead.



46. Hiller Aviation Museum at KSQL on the San Francisco Peninsula.
http://www.hiller.org/



47. Pacific Coast Air Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
www.pacificcoastairmuseum.org

48. Castle Air Museum, A****er, CA
www.elite.net/castle-air/

49. Wings of History Air Museum, San Martin, CA
www.wingsofhistory.org



50. There is also a soaring museum at Morarity, NM and there are taxiways
all over the place.

--

Jay Honeck

Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993

www.AlexisParkInn.com

"Your Aviation Destination"

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Old January 8th 04, 01:22 AM
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On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:55:01 -0800, John Ousterhout
wrote:

There's a free film about the hangar construction. It was planned
before WWII, and then after Pearl Harbor the builders were told to
rush, but not use steel as that was needed for other things. So they
used wood. Some of the timbers made from old growth Douglas Fir are
12x16".


And the glue is made from Spotted Owls and Snail Darters... :-)

Ron Wanttaja
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Old January 8th 04, 01:26 AM
Jonathan
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25. New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport, (BDL) Windsor
Locks, CT. They have a website ,but it appears to be down.


44, The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Bradley Intl
Airport (KBDL). http://www.neam.org/cont_about.htm Inquire FBO about a
courtesy shuttle to the museum. Open daily.

These are duplicates.

Great job pulling this together, Jay!


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Old January 8th 04, 01:35 AM
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I know of two others - both are fairly small in the NE.


http://www.americanairpowermuseum.com/ at KFRG farmingdale/republic NY. On
the NE side of the field in a hangar next to an FBO.
The last time I was there a WWII vet was giving a tour that was really
good - including showing us a piece of shrapnel that came out of him. I
also attended the opening that featured "Gabby" Gabreski. The museum tour
seems to me to be overpriced.
They sometimes have a B17 and a B25 when they are not at shows or otherwise
generating revenue.

Quonset state KOQU
http://www.airnav.com/airport/KOQU/QUONSET_AIR_MUSEUM It is a short walk
from the tower/field. (About 1/2 mile)


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:%rVKb.85315$xX.597512@attbi_s02...
WOW! I had no idea this thread would be so productive! Here is the list,
compiled from all of your posts. As you can see, some are more complete
than others. If anyone can add some of the missing information, please do
so!

For example, some people didn't post what STATE their suggested museum was
in. Can someone familiar with the area please add this? Ditto with

website
URLs, and anything else you might know.

I'm going to add a page of these museums to our aviation-theme hotel's
website, once we've got it compiled. What a terrific tool this will be!

Add more if you can!

Aircraft-Accessible Aviation Museums



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

parkon
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/.

6. Kansas City, MO (MKC) Airline History Museum

http://www.airlinehistorymuseum.com/



7. The Mid America Air Museum in Liberal, KS. It has about 100 aircraft

in
it and on the ramp and is located on the airport at Liberal. One of Max
Conrad's record breaking Comanches is on display there.
http://www.swaviator.com/html/issueON99/liberal.html



8. College Park has a nice museum adjacent to the FBO "buildings". Of
course you have to have prior permission to fly in the CGS these days.
I've been through the fingerprinting and rectal probing required however.

9. The Virginia Air Museum at Richmond International is on the airport
property and one of the FBO's is right next door, so you can walk from

your
plane to the
museum.

10. The Kalamazoo air museum is on the field and I can't remember if I got

a
lift over there from the FBO or not.



11. 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.

12. 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.



13. There is also the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton where
you can taxi up and park on the museum ramp. If you visit the museum they
will
also waive the landing fees. CYHM. www.warplane.com



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



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



16. WNC Air Museum is in Hendersonville, NC and is accessible by two
runways --- 0A7 and the Museum's own sod field. www.wncairmuseum.com



17. The museum at Santa Monica, CA http://www.museumofflying.com/ will

open
in 2004.



18. The Planes of Fame Museum in Chino, CA.



19. 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



20. Here's another: http://www.aerospacemuseum.org/gillespie/ Gillespie
Field Annex From a small one-hangar beginning, the San Diego Aerospace
Museum's annex at Gillespie Field has grown to become an integral part of
the Museum's aircraft restoration and replica reproduction program.

21. 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



22. Around he The Museum of Flight (WHERE IS "HERE"? :-)



23. The small Olympia museum. The Olympia museum is a nice small museum,
and there's an FBO right next door with lots of parking.



24. the Tillamook hangar.



25. New England Air Museum at Bradley International Airport, (BDL) Windsor
Locks, CT. They have a website ,but it appears to be down.



26. The Warbird Museum in Titusville, FL is accessible from GA.



27. Reading Airport, Reading PA has a museum you can easily walk to from
one of the FBOs.



28. The Shuttleworth Trust Museum, Biggleswade UK. Grass runway as I

recall
but it has been at least 15 years since I was there.



29. Castle Air Museum, http://www.elite.net/castle-air/. Right next
oor -- easy walking distance -- to KMER (Castle Airport, Merced), the old
Castle Airforce Base. (yes, you get 11,000' of runway to play with and an
apron built for dozens of B-52s on the way to the tiedowns). The museum
itself is great -- everything from an SR-71 and a B-52 to a Cessna "Blue
Canoe". I've spent several days there... (but the food there is

dreadful).



30. The CAFÉ museum at Galveston and the Museum at Midland are both
accessible. I like the on in Galveston better, but the one in Midland has
more made up exhibits



31. Check this one out, I taxied right up to the front door and enjoyed

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



32. The Staggerwing Museum at Tullahoma, Tennessee (THA).
www.staggerwing.com



33. Kermit Weeks' Fantasy of Flight, near Lakeland, Fl.



34. Tennessee Museum Of Aviation at Sevierville, TN (Gatlinburg-Pigeon

Forge
Airport GKT) http://www.tnairmuseum.com/



35. Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, NC (CLT)
http://www.chacweb.com/

36. Petticord Foundation for Aircraft Construction in Asheboro, NC (HBI)
(704) 359-8442

37. Wright Brothers National Memorial in Kitty Hawk, NC (FFA)
http://www.nps.gov/wrbr/indepth/grounds_menu.htm

38. Civil Air Patrol and Manteo Navy Aviation Air Station Museum in

Manteo,
NC (MQI) http://www.fly2mqi.com/museum.asp



39. Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, Texas, KGLS. From their website

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



40. Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs Airport, CA (KPSP)
http://www.air-museum.org/



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

42. The Owl's Head Transportation Museum in Owl's Head Maine (RKD).



43. The Mid Atlantic Air Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania, Carl Spatz Field
(KRDG) http://www.maam.org/ Request taxi to the museum. Open daily.
Don't miss their WW II weekends, usually the first weekend of June. "The
Museum's collection includes award-winning warbirds, classic airliners,

rare
& unusual military and civilian aircraft and historic exhibits."

44, The New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, Bradley Intl
Airport (KBDL). http://www.neam.org/cont_about.htm Inquire FBO about a
courtesy shuttle to the museum. Open daily.

45. The Aviation Hall of Fame & Museum of New Jersey at Teterboro

Airport,
(KTEB). http://www.njahof.org/ Open Tues-Sun 10-4. Not sure about ramp
or courtesy shuttles, KTEB can be extremely busy, so best to call ahead.



46. Hiller Aviation Museum at KSQL on the San Francisco Peninsula.
http://www.hiller.org/



47. Pacific Coast Air Museum, Santa Rosa, CA
www.pacificcoastairmuseum.org

48. Castle Air Museum, A****er, CA
www.elite.net/castle-air/

49. Wings of History Air Museum, San Martin, CA
www.wingsofhistory.org



50. There is also a soaring museum at Morarity, NM and there are taxiways
all over the place.

--

Jay Honeck

Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993

www.AlexisParkInn.com

"Your Aviation Destination"










 




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