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There are many airplane museums in California covering all aspects of military aircraft and civilian aircraft as well.  Many of these airplane museums are at military bases including air force bases and army bases.  California is a great place to visit.  C. Jeff Dyrek, webmaster.

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After almost nine years of planning and working with the Navy and various local agencies, the San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum organization leaders will soon realize their vision ¦to acquire Midway from the Navy and tow the ship to San Diego. The Midway will complete her final tour of duty as a world-class naval history museum and major tourist attraction at historic Navy Pier in the heart of downtown San Diego.

To be known as Midway Magic, this will not be just another carrier museum. In addition to paying considerable tribute to the brave men and women who have served to protect this country's shores, visitors will see an unparalleled collection of historical memorabilia, aircraft on the flight deck, and breathtaking exhibits depicting famous carrier battles. Visitors will also be able to "experience" many activities of carrier life through state-of-the-art virtual reality technology. These are just a few of the exciting things that will truly set Midway Magic apart from other naval historic ship museums.

San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
1355 North Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101

March 21, 2003 -- The day is coming when Midway will begin her final tour of duty on the South side of Navy Pier in San Diego.   She will mark San Diego's first major new visitor attraction in more than 20 years.   She'll serve as the cornerstone of the revitalized North Embarcadero, the gateway to downtown.   She'll join the Star of India and other historic and visitor attractions along the waterfront.

We are currently planning to begin towing this great ship to San Diego from Bremerton Washington later this summer. She will stop on the way and be spruced up for her debut in San Diego in Fall 2003!

In addition, our museum planning committee has completed its plan for opening-day, exhibits, features and demonstrations. In support of exhibits aircraft restoration is underway! Our first aircraft, an E-2C, has been fully restored. Work is also underway on our A-7 and A-6.

We have also begun collecting photographs and cruise books for exhibit aboard MIDWAY. If you would like to consider donating artifacts to our collection, visit our Web site

We look forward to welcoming you aboard,
San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
1355 North Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 702-7700
www.midway.org
Click here: USS Midway         
Click here: USS MIDWAY Museum - Home  


 
Aircraft Carrier Hornet CV-12 Museum 
Pier 3, Alameda Point 
Alameda, CA 94501 
(510) 521-8448 
Fax (510) 521-8327 
Email: hornetok@aol.com 
http://www.maritime.org/hnsa-hornet.htm
From the North take I-80 to 580 to 980 Oakland, Jackson St. exit, right on Jackson, right on 4th, right on Broadway, dog-leg right to Alameda tunnel, out on Webster, right on Atlantic to the gate of former Alameda Naval Air Station. 
Aircraft Carrier

 
Air Force Flight Test Center Museum 
6500ABW/CCM 
Edwards Air Force Base, CA 93523
805-277-8050 
About 85 miles north of Los Angeles on hwy 14
About 5 Aircraft

 
The Air Museum "Planes of Fame" 
7000 Merrill Ave. Box 17
Chino, CA  91710 
714-597-3722

Here are a couple more Aircraft Museums in Chino 
I have no other information on them 
The Fighter Jet museum
The Yankee Air Museum

About 50 Aircraft and 1 Apollo Spacecraft

 
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California Museum of Science and Industry 
700 State Dr. 
Los Angeles, CA 90037 
213-744-7400 
About 6 Aircraft and One I-Max Theater

 
Castle Air Museum 
P.O. Box 488 
Atwater, CA 95301 
209-723-2178 
www.elite.net/castle-air
About 43 Aircraft including a Rare SR-71 & B36

 
 Commemorative Air Force/Southern Cal. Wing 
at Camarillo CA airport 
Has just opened 1999 a new 3000+ sq. ft. museum bldg. of WW 2 era aviation artifacts. 
We also have several operational and "in restoration" aircraft for public viewing. We have: Grumman F8F-2 Bearcat, C-46 Curtiss Commando, B-25 Mitchell Bomber, SEVERAL SNJ/T-6 Trainers 
Also a real, Japanese Zero for viewing/photos. 
For any desired further information contact the Museum Director. 
Dave Long   805 482-0064 (airport)     Toropoo@gte.net   ...
www.orgsites.com/ca/caf-socal
Some more great photos from this museum
 About 12 Aircraft

 
Classic Rotors
Classic Rotors is located at Ramona Airport California  
North East of San Diego on Rte 67
http://www.rotors.org/
Info thanks to Terry Robinson
More than 7 Helicopters Many of them Flyable,
some are the only ones in existence today

 
Single Aircraft Display
 B-17 Flying Fortress
Located just south of Visalia Ca. there is a B-17 bomber sitting on the east side of Hwy 99.
Went by the B-17 parked near Visalia on Saturday, June 26, 1999, it is still there and intact.  Passing at 70 mph it looks as if it were flight ready. Information thanks to John Cockayne 
Webmasters Note;  I remember seeing this aircraft many times as I drove from Lemoore Naval Air Station to the races at Tulare Fair Grounds.  If you drive around the back roads, you can get up next to it.
Here's the latest news from Roger F. Schulze
The B-17 is located at the entrance to Mefford Field (TLR), which is the airport for Tulare, California.

 
Edward AFB Museum 
Goleta Air & Space Museum 

http://www.air-and-space.com/edwards.htm

Info from Robert S. Furrer
48+ Aircraft many of which are experimental

 
 
Hiller Aviation Museum
San Carlos, California

http://hiller.org/
This is a great website with the Aviation Explorer Scouts 

About 22 Aircraft

 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory 
Visitor Center, 4800 Oak Grove Drive 
Pasadena, CA 91109 
(818) 354-4321 

Webmasters Note:

Call at least One month before you plan to visit.  The Space Center gives only one tour per month and you must have a reservation.   C. Jeff Dyrek
Multiple Spacecraft

   
Joe Davies Heritage Airpark
Palmdale Plant 42

The Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42
is located at 2001 E. Avenue P.

Visitors to the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42 may view a collection of aircraft flown, tested, designed, produced or modified at United States Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale. The first five-acre phase of the Airpark includes 13 planes on display plus a scale model of the B-2 Spirit and a full-size U-2 horizontal stabilizer and engine. Additionally, a C-46 is currently being restored. Over 40 different aircraft may be on display when the park is fully built out.

Information from Robert West

13 Planes and Building to more than 40 Planes.

 

March Field Museum 
22 AREFW/CVM 
March Air force Base, CA 92518 
714-655-3725 
Southeast of Riverside CA
About 42 Aircraft
UH-1, UH-21, C-119, C-131, KC-135, B-52, B-47, C-123, A-9, F-89, FB-111, F-102, F-100, F-101, F-102, F-105, U-4, T-39, T-38, F-86, F-84F, F-84C, T-33, F-14, SR-71, KC-97, EB-57, SA-16, O-2, F-4 , B-29, B-17, C-47, A-26, AT-6, C-60, VAL, B-25, C-45, MIG-19
Aircraft List thanks to Gilbert Bliss

 
McClellan Aviation Museum 
McClellan Aviation Museum
    3204 Palm Street
    McClellan CA 95652
    (916) 643-3192
North side of Sacramento
Our collection consists of 30 aircraft on static display, over 5000 artifacts on rotating display and an aviation theme Gift Shop that carries a wide variety of gifts for aircraft enthusiasts of all ages.

Our hours of operation are:  9:00am to 4:00pm Monday through Saturday and Noon to 4:00pm on Sunday.  (Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years Day and Easter)
We can be found by taking the Watt Ave. North exit off of Hwy 80 to the former McClellan Air Force Base, enter the Palm Gate and travel two blocks to the museum.

Webmasters Note:

I've been here before, and I didn't allow myself enough time to really take a good look at all of the aircraft.  Here you get to touch these aircraft and take a real good look at every inch of them.
About 30 Aircraft

 
Moffett Field museum
Moffett Field Historical Society Museum 
  P. O. Box 16 
  Moffett Field, CA 94035-0016 
  Telephone: (650) 603-9827 
  Email: moffetthistory@mail.arc.nasa.gov 
The museum is located in historic Hangar One at Moffett Airfield near Mountain View and Sunnyvale about 35 miles south of San Francisco. From Highway 101, use the Moffett Field exit. Visitors should call (650) 603-9827
Hangar One; The Carol Henderson Room is devoted to capturing Moffett's history with books, records, videos, posters, recordings   and newspaper clippings; The Carl Honaker Room displays the history of "Heavier-Than-Air" aircraft at Moffett Field. The LTA   (Lighter-Than-Air) Room is filled with photographs, models, and memorabilia of the balloons, blimps, dirigibles and people that made   up the lighter than air era at Moffett Field. The Macon Room displays a wonderful diorama of the U.S.S. Macon and many aircraft of   the 1920s to 1940.
Excerpts from a letter from the Moffett Field Museum.
Q:  I have heard that the Hangars are so big that when the doors are closed and the air-conditioning is down clouds would form inside and it would actually rain. Is this true?  Jeff Dyrek

A: I've heard that when atmospheric conditions were just right, water would condense and rain down, although I've never actually seen this (there is no air-conditioning in the hangar; it's way too big!).  Right now we get
rain inside the hangar because the roof leaks.  Also, most of the windows leak, so we are continually sopping up water with towels when it rains.  The hangar hasn't been repaired in years, and it seems to me to be in poor shape.  I imagine it would take millions for a proper upgrade (certainly to bring it up to fire code), but the museum doesn't have that kind of money.  NASA, who owns the hangar, doesn't want to spend any money on it; in fact, they would probably like to see it torn down. But since it's a Historical Landmark, they can't do that!

Thanks again,  Dave Black


 
NASA Ames Research Center 
Visitors Center 
Ames Research Center 
Moffett Field, CA. 94035 
415-604-6274 
Located at the very southern part of the San Francisco Bay next to Moffett Field Naval Air Station.
Various Aircraft, Spacecraft and Future type aircraft wind tunnel models

 
NASA Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility 
P.O. Box 273 
Edwards, CA. 93523 
805-258-3446 
Located near Roseamond CA about 90 miles north of L.A.
About 8 Aircraft

 
P A C I F I C   C O A S T   A I R   M U S E U M
2230 Becker Blvd, Santa Rosa, CA 95403
707-575-7900 Phone
Pacificcoastairmuseum.org
Museum Hours:  Every Tuesday and Thursday from 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
                          Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. 
Display Days:     Every Third Weekend of Each Month, Saturday and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m..  Admission:  $5.00 Donation Accepted -- Children Admitted Free
Information thanks to Barney Hagen
About ? Aircraft

 
Palm Springs Air Museum
745 North Gene Autry Trail 
Palm Springs, California 92262 
760-778-6262 ext:222 
Email: sales@air-museum.org 
http://air-museum.org/
Location
  Located on the north side of the Palm Springs Airport, the Air Museum is housed in an impressive new structure that includes the two main display halls and  hangars, theatre, gift shop, ramp and airport access  or flight demonstrations and visiting planes, research library, simulator and education center.
Information thanks to C. Duncan Welch
About 66 Aircraft

 
San Diego Aerospace Museum 
2001 Pan American Plaza 
Balboa Park 
San Diego, CA. 92101 
619-234-8291 
http://www.AerospaceMuseum.org/
About 66 Aircraft

 
San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum
1355 North Harbor Drive
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 702-7700
www.midway.org
http://www.midway.org/
For More Museum Information, Click here
About 12 Aircraft and one Aircraft Carrier

 
Travis Air Force Museum 
Travis Air force Base, CA.94535 
707-424-5605 
About 40 miles east of San Francisco near Fairfield on Hwy. 80
Please Note:  Due to security restrictions, visitors must obtain a pass at  the Main Gate Visitor’s Center. You must have someone  with a military/government ID to provide escort services.  Call the visitor center first at (707) 424-1462 to inquire  about current security conditions for that day! Visitors  carrying an active duty or military identification or have  approved BASE ACCESS do not require a pass.

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About 31 Aircraft

 
Western Aerospace Museum
8260 Boeing Street, Building #621 
Post Office Box 14264 
North Field, Oakland Airport 
Oakland, California 94614 
Tel: (510) 638-7100 Fax: (510) 638-6530 
http://www.aerospace.org/wamhome.htm
About 4 Aircraft

 
Western Museum of Flight
12016 Prairie Ave. 
Hawthorne, CA 90250 
310-332-6228

This is located in the Northwest corner of the Hawthorne Airport in El Segundo...which is the home field for Northrop Aircraft. It's small (only half a dozen planes on display), but loaded with cool, historic memorabilia...and one of the two YF-23 prototypes.

 Information from Mark Morris
About 6 Aircraft with two Super Rare YF-23 Prototypes

 
Wings of History Air Museum
street address: 12777 Murphy Avenue, San Martin, California USA 
     mailing address: PO Box 495, San Martin, CA 95046-0495 
     phone: (408) 683-2290 
     fax:      (408) 683-2291 
Museum Hours: Saturday and Sunday  11am - 4pm 
http://www.wingsofhistory.org/
The Wings Of History Air Museum is located in San Martin, California adjacent to the South County Airport. 
About 4 Aircraft

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Japanese Propaganda Art Exhibit
This is a very rare exhibit of Japanese art from WW2 1941 -1942
Exhibit Added 10 June 2007

Propaganda Art was used by forces on all sides in WW2 as well as all wars in history.  This kind of art gave pride to the citizens of those countries who produced it and gave a unity in support of the wars.  This exhibit is an excellent example of Japanese Propaganda art.

 

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