12 Museums For the Aviation Enthusiast

Naval Aviation Museum at Pensacola is one of my favorites and a must see.

Looking for a B-36,47,52 SR71 tons more, Castle Air Museum, Atwater, Ca.

No Mention of the one in San Diego?

What about Planes of Fame?

A quick google search coughed up 553,000 entries. Here is just one.
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I'm surprised the Warner Robins Museum of Aviation is not on the list. Look at Wikipedia and you'll see "The Museum of Aviation is the second-largest aerospace museum of the United States Air Force." I've been going to this museum since it was a single tin building and now it comprises two very large buildings and the original building and I think I heard at one time that a third addition was being considered. This museum has some great aircraft as well as high-quality exhibits and history inside the main building. You enter the main building and you are greeted by an F-15 being serviced. It is definitely worth the trip. I would have also expected the see the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. It has a carrier flight deck mock-up on the main floor and is a great museum also.

I've never been to Kill Devil Hills to see the Wright Brothers Memorial unfortunately. As important as this is to aviation, I see it more as a memorial or monument than an aviation museum. Just a thought.

Bucket list!

The Staggerwing (Beechcraft Heritage) Museum in Tullahoma, TN for all things Beechcraft.

Great list and if you visit Pima there is a CAF Wing at Falcon Field in Mesa, KFFZ.

Very cool, thank you for submitting. I'll have to check some of these out sometime soon!

You can't forget about Evergreen Air and Space Museum in McMinnville, OR. Home of the HK-1 Hercules (Spruce Goose). Most people think that aircraft was dismantled for firewood after it was removed from Long Beach, CA. It lives in a small town in OR surrounded by some of the best and most feared aircraft of WWII. Plus they have the only B747 water slide park that I know of. You literally start inside the cabin of a 747 mounted on the roof of the indoor water park.

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