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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/ -- Peter ----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 100,000 Newsgroups ---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =--- |
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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 Remove "nospam" to reply 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 |
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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" |
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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. |
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"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 |
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"Michael 182" wrote in message
news:wJHKb.239677$8y1.1083757@attbi_s52... And Rhinebeck, NY - never been there but I've heard it's great. Rhinebeck is a great flying museum... they don't just have vintage aircraft, they FLY them. Not many other places you can hear the sound of a rotary engine and the smell of burning castor oil :-) Website: http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/ And from their FAQ: Q: Can I land my aircraft at the Aerodrome? A: . We discourage general aviation aircraft, but welcome antiques as long as their performance is compatible with the limitations of our airfield. Feel free to bcall the Aerodrome at (845) 752-3200 to discuss the particulars of your aircraft and our airfield. Eric |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:FeGKb.751015$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 |
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:FeGKb.751015$HS4.5883554@attbi_s01... [snip] 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 |
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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...." |
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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...." |
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