by Bill Standerfer - KF0DJ - Baron N222AB - CFI-A, II, MEI
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Weeks Air Museum
14710 SW 128th Street, Miami, Florida 33186
Tel: 305-233-5197, Hours: 10AM-5PM Saturday-Sunday.
Admission: adults $4, under 12 or over 65 $2
Tamiami airport. Display of restored WWII aircraft. Gift shop at the museum.
Coffee shop on the field. (Mike Dolin)
Naval Aviation Museum
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida 32508
Tel: 904-452-3543, Hours: 9AM-5PM daily.
It has a collection of US Navy aircraft dating back to the beginning of US Naval aviation, photos, films and other memorabilia. Indoors covers about two acres outdoors is about another 10 acres. If you go on a weekend when she is in port, you can also take a tour of the Lexington. (Mark O'Shea)
Robins Air Force Base Museum of Aviation
POB 2469, Warner Robins, Georgia 31099
Tel: 912-926-6870, Hours: 10AM-5PM Tuesday-Sunday.
Displays include Mace, Matador, and Bomarc missiles, B-29, B-47, B-52D, F-100, F-104, F-105, C-130, O-2, and others. They may be getting a U-2 soon. You don't have to enter the base to visit the museum. Also, Robert Scott ("God Is My Copilot") is active for the museum and is sometimes around. (Eugene Styer)
Dupage Airport Museum
a west Chicago suburb.
Off North avenue, 2 miles west of Route 59.
Grissom Air Museum
Grissom Air Force Base
Kokomo, IN
This outdoor museum has about twenty planes maintained by Air Force personal and the Air National Guard. The planes include a KC-97 stratotanker (I think this plane had both prop and jet engines), a B-?? (a high numbered pre B-1 supersonic bomber), F-111, F-86, and a Piper Cub reconnaissance plane. (Stuart Harvey)
Airpower Museum
Antique Airfield, Route 2, Box 172, Ottumwa, Iowa 52501
Tel: 515-938-2773 Hours: 9AM-5PM Monday-Friday, 10AM-5PM Saturday,
1PM-5PM Sunday.
Iowa Aviation Preservation Center
Greenfield Municipal Airport
Greenfield, IA
Tel: 515-343-7184 Hours: Weekdays - 10AM to 5PM, weekends - 1PM to 5PM
A small museum, but a unique collection, including Dehavilland Hornet Moth, Tiger Moth, Aetna-Timm, Piper J-2, J-3, J-5, Curtiss Robin, some early gliders.
Martin and Osa Johnson Safari Museum
Chanute, KS -
No airplanes. Limited to photos and memorabilia.
Hutchinson, KS - The Kansas Cosmoshpere and Space Center
1100 N. Plum, Hutchinson, KS 67501
Tel: 316-662-2305, Hours: 9-4 Monday through Wednesday, 9-9 Thursday and Friday, 10-9 Saturday, 12-8 Sunday. Admission: museum - free, Omnimax - adults $4, seniors and under 12 $2.75 Space exhibits including Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo capsules. Planetarium and Omnimax theater.
Mid America Air Museum
PO Box 2585, 2000 W 2nd
Liberal, Kansas 67905
Tel: 316-624-5363
Hours: 8AM-5PM Monday-Friday, 10AM-4PM Saturday, 1PM-4PM Sunday.
This is a very nice new museum (1988), located in the old Beech Duchess and Sport factory buildings on the airport. Lot's of interesting types on display including TBM, A-20 (on loan from the Smithsonian), T-50, Twin Navion, and many more. Sixty Aircraft on display. Located on the Liberal airport, but a short walk from either of the FBOs. No food on the field, but you can usually get a courtesy car to take the short drive into town.
Combat Air Museum
PO Box 19142, Topeka, Kansas 66619
Tel: 913-862-9649, Hours: 9:30AM-4:30PM Monday-Saturday, 12:30PM-4:30PM Sunday; closed Monday-Friday from November to March.
Owlshead, ME
Owlshead Transportation Museum.
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