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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