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Aviation Office
605 Suwannee Street, MS 46
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0450
Phone: (850) 414-4500
Fax: (850) 414-4508
aviation.fdot@dot.state.fl.us

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FDOT Aviation - Aviation and Space Museums
Aviation Office
Aviation and Space Museums

Camp Blanding Museum & Memorial Park
Fantasy of Flight, World's Greatest Aircraft Collection
Florida Air Museum
Kennedy Space Center - Visitor Complex
National Museum of Naval Aviation
U.S. Air Force Armament Museum
U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Museum
U.S. Army Aviation Museum
Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
Warbird Air Museum
Wings Over Miami



Camp Blanding Museum & Memorial Park
Dedicated in November 1990, Camp Blanding Museum and Memorial Park serves to collect artifacts and archival materials to preserve the history of Camp Blanding and the veterans and units that are a part of Camp Blanding's past. The museum consists of interior and exterior exhibits and a memorial park.  The interior exhibits cover the World War II period when Camp Blanding was a large training center for the U.S. Army. Exterior exhibits consist of large pieces of equipment, including aircraft and helicopters, from World War II, Vietnam, and the Desert Storm eras. Located at the Camp Blanding Florida Army National Guard Center near Starke, Florida, museum hours are  1200pm - 4:00pm daily and admission is free.

Fantasy of Flight, World's Greatest Aircraft Collection
The passion and nostalgia of aviation come alive at Fantasy of Flight, World's Greatest Aircraft Collection located in near Polk City, Florida, only 20 miles southwest of Walt Disney World. From the vision of aviation enthusiast, historian, and its founder Kermit Weeks, Fantasy of Flight is a tribute to the innovation and imagination of the pioneers of flight. Featuring many rare and vintage aircraft, this popular attraction transports visitors back to the hey-day of aviation.

Florida Air Museum
The Sun 'n Fun Aviation Foundation provides support for the Florida Air Museum and was founded as a non-profit organization in 1987. The Florida Air Museum at Sun 'n Fun and Aviation Center is centrally located in Lakeland, Florida on a 40 acre site adjacent to the Sun 'n Fun Fly-In annual convention site at the Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. The 20,000-square-foot facility houses the museum's current collection of aircraft and memorabilia, plus the Foundation's offices. The Florida Air Museum displays a vast variety of aircraft and the history of nearly 100 years of flight. Year-round programs bring aviation to life and a staff supplemented by hundreds of volunteers is teeming with imagination and energy.  The Florida Air Museum is a testament to the men and women - past, present and future - who dedicated their lives to fulfilling the dream of flight. Please see the website for hours of operation and museum entry fees.

Kennedy Space Center - Visitor Complex
The Kennedy Space Center has hosted millions of guests from around the world for more than 30 years -- telling the story of how the United States built a space program that launched men to the moon, orbited satellites that have improved our lives, and sent probes into distant space to solve the mysteries of the cosmos. Located on the east coast of Florida approximately midway between Jacksonville and Miami, the center represents a marriage of technology and nature at its best. Kennedy Space Center is located about 35 miles east of Orlando International Airport in Brevard County, Florida. Also visit NASA's newly acquired and renovated Astronaut Hall of Fame, which reopened to the public on December 14, 2002. Please see the Kennedy Space Center - Visitor Complex website for operating hours and admission fees.

National Museum of Naval Aviation
Founded in 1966, the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation is the non-profit educational and fund-raising organization that supports development of the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. Located on 37 acres of land at the Pensacola Naval Air Station, the National Museum of Naval Aviation attracts about a million visitors every year. It is the second-largest U.S. aviation museum, after the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and houses more than 140 aircraft, scores of scale models, hundreds of paintings and photographs in fascinating exhibits, and an impressive research library. The 291,000-square-foot structure of steel and glass features a life-size replica of the flight deck and island superstructure of the World War II light carrier USS Cabot, with aircraft on deck and suspended overhead. The Blue Angel Atrium encloses a flight of four gleaming McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk jets once used by the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, suspended beneath a skylight in diamond formation. This museum, preserving the history of Naval Aviation, is the most visited museum in the State of Florida. There is no charge for admission and the museum is open to the public from 9:00am to 5:00pm seven days a week, 362 days each year, except for Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.

U.S. Air Force Armament Museum
The U.S. Air Force Armament Museum is located near the main entrance to Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida panhandle on Highway 85 between the Fort Walton Beach area and Interstate Highway 10. Whereas the U.S. Air Force Museum portrays the history and tradition of all aspects of the U.S. Air Force, the USAF Armament Museum is specifically dedicated to the display of U.S. Air Force aviation armament and weapons delivery systems. The movie "Arming the Air Force," a history of Eglin Air Force Base and its role in the development of armament lasts 32 minutes and is shown continuously throughout the day. Visitors can view a variety of historical Air Force planes from a B-17 Flying Fortress to an F-4 Phantom II. Four aircraft inside represent specific war eras: P-51 Mustang and P-47 Thunderbolt - World War II, F-80 Shooting Star - Korean War, and F-105 Thunderchief - Vietnam War. Aircraft on display outside include the SR-71 Blackbird, A-10, B-17, B-25, B-52, B-57, C-47, C-131, F-4, F-15, F-16, F-84, F-86, F-89, F-100, F-101, F-104, F-111, O-2, RB-47, RF-4, and T-33. Museum admission is free and open 9am to 4:30pm daily, except on all federal holidays. 

U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Museum
The Air Force Space and Missile Museum at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on the east coast of Florida, preserves the hardware and spirit of U.S. ventures into space. The museum displays numerous missiles, rockets, and related space equipment and is open daily. A guided tour called "Cape Canaveral: Then and Now" lasts about 2.5 hours and includes a stop at the museum, NASA's Launch Complex 5/6, and various historic launch complexes at Cape Canaveral AFS. For more information call 321-452-2121 or 321-449-4322.  For groups of 15 or more people, please contact the 45th Space Wing Community Relations Office two weeks in advance.

U.S. Army Aviation Museum
Convenient to many North Florida Panhandle tourist destinations, the U.S. Army Aviation Museum is located at Fort Rucker, the "Home of Army Aviation", located approximately 25 miles north of the Florida-Alabama stateline and about 20 miles northwest of Dothan, Alabama. The museum maintains a collection of over 160 military aircraft, including one of the largest collections of military helicopters in the world. The public galleries represent the Army's involvement in military aviation from the beginning days with the Wright brothers and early combat aircraft of World War I, up to the highly technological machines flown by Army Aviators today. The Army Aviation Museum is open Monday through Saturday (9:00am - 4:00pm) and Sunday (12:00pm - 4:00pm), 360 days a year (excluding Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Day, and New Year's Eve and Day). Admission is free. Visitor identification required upon entering Fort Rucker.

Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum
The Valiant Air Command is a publicly supported, non-profit, educational, tax-exempt corporation, chartered under the laws of the State of Florida. Presently the Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum has 10 acres of property at the Space Center Executive Airport in Titusville, Florida. The museum displays, maintains and restores all types of aircraft that were indigenous to the world's military Air Forces starting before WW1 to the present. Please see the website for hours of operation and museum entry fees.

Warbird Air Museum
Tom Reilly's Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum allows visitors a chance to see, smell and touch the history many only heard about on newsreels during WW II or read about in classrooms generations later. The museum is located in Central Florida at Kissimmee Gateway Airport about sixteen miles southwest of Orlando. The museum maintains an extensive collection of aircraft in restoration status, static display, and flying condition. Please see the website for hours of operation and museum entry fees.

Wings Over Miami
The Wings Over Miami museum, formally known as the "Weeks Air Museum", displays and flies military and classic aircraft to share the history of flight by providing examples of operating historic aircraft. The museum, located at the Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport in Miami, Florida, exists as a tribute to those veterans and aviators who pioneered civilian and military aviation, and is for the enjoyment and education of the public.



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