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Maybe this will help... (long post)

Posted by Mike Henniger on Fri Feb 27, 2004 12:29:17 PM

In reply top So nothing interesting in Fort Myers, eh? Leaving Saturday. posted by Olivier Lacombe on Thu Feb 26, 2004 04:47:23 PM

Here is a cut and paste of my notes of museums (and other potentially preserved aircraft) in Florida. Since it has been a few years since I was there I don't really remember where the towns are relative to each other. You will need to sort it out. Also some of the info is likely to be outdated, so check the facts before you travel if you find something you are interested in.

Hope this helps.

Mike


Arcadia
Owner/Operator: City of Arcadia???
Address: Arcadia, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Baker Aviation School
Address: Miami, Florida
Further Info: There is a Republic F-84 Thunderjet in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft is displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Big Kahuna Water Park
Address: Destin, Florida
Further Info: There is a North American B-25 Mitchell in the inventory. The aircraft is pedestal mounted as a part decoration.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Cannon Creek Park
Owner/Operator: City of Lake City
Address: Lake City, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a Vought A-7 Corsair II. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Clearwater Airport
Owner/Operator: City of Clearwater???
Address: ClearwaterLake City, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a Convair Delta Dagger. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Defuniak Springs
Owner/Operator: City of Defuniak Springs???
Address: Defuniak Springs, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Destin
Owner/Operator: City of Destin???
Address: Destin, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a North American B-25 Mitchell. It is not known how the aircraft is display, but the source of this information indicated it was displayed in a theme park.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Fantasy of Flight
Owner/Operator: Kermit Weeks
Address: Polk City, Florida
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 110+
Last Update: 1998

Florida Military Aviation Museum
Address: P.O. Box 1687, Clearwater, Florida, 34622
Directions: The museum is currently located at 16055 Fairchild Dr. at the St. Petersburg - Clearwater International Airport. Due to airport expansion, the collection will be moved in October or November to a new location, most likely the former Ringling Circus site at the airport in Venice, Florida.
Phone: 813-535-9007
Further Info: We are particularly interested in promoting Florida's role in military aviation. To this end, we attempt to acquire aircraft that were either stationed in Florida or flown by Floridians. The collection includes an A-4C and a C-47.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 18+
Last Update: 1998

Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum
Owner/Operator: Flying Tigers Warbird Air Museum
Address: 231 North Hoagland Blvd. (Airport Rd.), Kissimmee, Florida, 34741
Directions: Tom Reilly Vintage Aircraft is located at the northwest corner of Kissimmee Municipal Airport
Phone: 407-933-1942
Fax: 407-933-7843
Web Site: www.warbirdmuseum.com/
E-Mail: warbirds@warbirdmuseum.com
Admission: Mon-Sat 9-5 & Sun 9-5. Adults $9, children and seniors $8, kids under 12 $8 and 7 and under free. Closed Christmas day.
Further Info: The Flying Tigers Warbird Restoration Museum allows visitors a chance to see, smell and touch the history that many only heard about on newsreels in the forties or read about in the classrooms generations later. Here you can see the restoration process take place and the metamorphosis of these once forgotten hulks of history back to their former glory and then taken out to stretch their wings again right over the museum for all to see and hear!
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 30+
Last Update: 2004

Florida Military Aviation Museum
Address: St.Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport, 16055 Fairchild Dr., Clearwater
Further Info: This museum has been asked to leave the airport for financial reasons.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 17+
Last Update: 1999

Fort Lauderdale
Owner/Operator: City of Fort Lauderdale???
Address: Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Directions: Sunrise Blvd.
Further Info: There is a North American F-86 Sabre in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft is displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Herlong Airport
Address: Jacksonville, Florida
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 13+
Last Update: 1998

Homestead City
Owner/Operator: City of Homestead City???
Address: Homestead City, Florida
Directions: Sunrise Blvd.
Further Info: There is a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft is displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Hurlburt Field Memorial Air Park
Address: Hurlburt Field, Fort Walton, Florida
Directions: Off US98.
Further Info: Home to the Air Force Special Operations Command and the 16th Special Operations Wing, the field provides Air Force special operations forces to support the National Command Authority's actions. The inventory includes a Douglas A-26K Counter Invader, but it is not known how it is displayed (if it is displayed).
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 13+
Last Update: 1998

Jacksonville University - NROTC
Address: 2800, University Blvd. North, Jacksonville, Florida, 32211
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1
Further Info: A Vought A-7E Corsair II is in the inventory, but it is unclear if the aircraft is on display.
Last Update: 1998

Kennedy Space Center
Address: Cape Canaveral
Further Info: Extensive collection of booster rockets, space capsules, an Orbiter mockup and educational displays. Museum is free, but guided bus tours of the Space Center and launch sites are not.
Last Update: 1999

Lantonwa
Owner/Operator: City of Lantonwa???
Address: Lantonwa, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a Grumman OV-1 Mohawk. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Milton
Owner/Operator: City of Milton???
Address: Milton, Florida
Further Info: There is a McDonnell Douglas A-4 Skyhawk and a North American T-28 Trojan in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft are displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Myrtle Beach
Owner/Operator: City of Myrtle Beach???
Address: Myrtle Beach, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a North American F-100 Super Sabre. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Myrtle Beach Airport
Owner/Operator: City of Myrtle Beach???
Address: Myrtle Beach, Florida
Further Info: The inventory includes a Vought A-7 Corsair II and a Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. It is not known how the aircraft are display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 2+
Last Update: 1998

New Smyrna Beach Airport
Address: New Smyrna Beach, Florida???
Further Info: The inventory includes a North American B-25 Mitchell. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Orlando International Airport
Further Info: The inventory includes a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. It is not known how the aircraft is display if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Panama City
Owner/Operator: City of Panama City???
Address: Panama City, Florida
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 3+
Last Update: 1998

Santa Rosa County
Owner/Operator: Santa Rosa County
Address: Santa Rosa, Florida
Directions: I-10 Rest Stop
Web Site: www.santarosacounty.com
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Spaceport USA - Kennedy Space Center
Owner/Operator: Visitor Center - TWRS
Address: Visitor Center-TWRS, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, 32899-0001
Phone: (407) 452-2121
Admission: Mon-Sun 9-dusk. Tours $14 (adults) and up. Closed Christmas day.
Last Update: 1998

International Sport Aviation Museum
Owner/Operator: Sun ?N Fun Aviation Foundation
Address: P.O Box 6795, Lakeland, Florida, 33807-6795
Directions: Located on a 40 acre campus area adjacent to
the Fly-In convention site. Located on the Sun ?n Fun EAA Fly-In convention site on the southwest corner of Lakeland Linder Regional Airport.
Phone: (941) 644-0741
Fax: (941) 648-9264
Web Site: www.sun-n-fun.com/info/whatsnew.html
Admission: Hours of operation Mon-Fri 9-5, Sat 10-4 & Sun 12-4. Admission to the museum is a contribution of $4.00 for adults and $2.00 for children under 12.
Further Info: The museum has gained international recognition as a first-class aviation museum. The Museum currently houses a collection of approximately 35 experimental and homebuilt aircraft along with several outdoor displays. The second phase will include the museum and an Aviation Education Center, addressing the needs of the 21st century. Together they will consist of 100,000 square feet of display, restoration, educational, and administrative spaces. A four-story, central core facility will be joined with the Museum Exhibit Wing to house a variety of aviation displays and aviation artifacts with emphasis on sport aviation.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 20+
Last Update: 1998

Pensacola Airport
Address: Pensacola, Florida
Directions: There is a Grumman F11 Tiger in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft is displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

USAF AFB Eglin - Air Force Armament Museum
Address: Air Force Armament Museum, 100 Museum Drive, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, Florida, 32542
Directions: Eglin Air Force is located north of the Choctawhatchee Bay off the Gulf of Mexico. Eglin?s closest city is Valparajso, between Pensacola and Panama City. The museum is located in the triangle between SR189, SR85 and SR397, which is between I-10 and route 98.
Phone: (904) 882-4062, tour coordinator (904)882-4063
Web Site: www.wg53.eglin.af.mil/armmus
Admission: Open daily from 9:30 to 4:30. Admission is free.
Further Info: The story of Air Force armaments is dramatically told at the Air Force Armament Museum? the only such Museum in the United States. This Museum is dedicated to the past, present, and future military and civilian men and women who have and will contribute to the development of armaments necessary to insure freedom.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 27+
Last Update: 1998

USAF AFB - MacDill
Address: MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida, 33621-5000
Phone: (813)828-1110
Further Info: It is assumed that the F-4E in the inventory is a gate guardians.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1
Last Update: 1998

USAF AFB Tyndall - Tyndall Air Park
Address: Tyndall AFB, Panama City, Florida, 32403
Phone: (904) 283-1113
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 27+
Last Update: 1998

USAF ANG - Homestead (125th FG)
Address: Homestead, Florida, 33039
Phone: (305)224-7303
Further Info: It is assumed that the two aircraft in the inventory are gate guardians, a F-106 and a T-33A.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 2
Last Update: 1998

USN NAS - Cecil Field
Address: Jacksonville, Florida
Phone: (813) 828-1110
Web Site: http://www.cecilfield.com/JAXCOM.HTM
Further Info: It is assumed that the F-4E in the inventory is a gate guardian.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 9
Last Update: 1998

USN NAS - Key West
Address: Key West, Florida
Further Info: It is assumed that the aircraft in the inventory is a gate guardian.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1
Last Update: 1998

USN NAS - Mayport
Further Info: There are two UH-60s in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft are displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 2+
Last Update: 1998

USN NAS - Pensacola - National Museum of Naval Aviation
Address: P. O. Box 33104, NAS Pensacola, 1750 Radford Blvd., Pensacola, Florida, 32508
Phone: (904)452-3604 or 3606 another source has 904-452-3543
Web Site: www.amaranth.com/~navalair
Admission: Open daily, 9-5, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. No admission charge.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 149+
Further Info: This museum tells the complete history of Naval Aviation, with historic Naval, Marine and Coast Guard aircraft and theme exhibits. Indoors covers about two acres, outdoors is about another 10 acres. The aviation and aircraft memorabilia make for a fascinating visit.
Last Update: 1998

USN NAS - Whiting Field
Address: Milton, Florida (Santa Rosa County)
Web Site: www.ncts.navy.mil/naswf/info.htm and/or www.santarosacounty.com/whiting.html
Further Info: It is assumed that the aircraft in the inventory are gate guardians.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 2+
Last Update: 1998

Valiant Air Command, Warbird Air Museum
Owner/Operator: Valiant Air Command
Address: 6600 Tico Road, Titusville, Florida, 32780-8009
Directions: From I-95 exit on Exit 79 and follow RT 405 east, towards Kennedy Space Center. The museum is located on Tico Road at the Space Center Executive Airport, Titusville, Florida.
Phone: (407) 268-1941
Web Site: http://www.vac.org/
Admission: $6.00 Adults, $4.00 Children 12 & Under, Group, Student and Tour Rates Available Upon Request. Hours of operation Mon-Sun 10-6. Closed Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day
Further Info: The Warbird Air Museum is a non-profit, educational Florida Institution. The facility is available for private parities and evening functions.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 18+
Last Update: 1998

Wauchula
Owner/Operator: City of Wauchula???
Address: Wauchula, Florida
Further Info: There is a Republic F-84 Thunderjet in the inventory. It is not known how the aircraft is displayed if at all.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 1+
Last Update: 1998

Weeks Air Museum
Owner/Operator: Kermit Weeks
Address: Kendall-Tamiami Executive Airport, 14710 SW 128 Street, Miami, Florida, 33196
Directions: From Miami Beach, take Expressway 826 West to the Florida Turnpike, get off at exit #19, SW 120 Street and go West to SW 137 Avenue. From Fort Lauderdale, take the Florida Turnpike South toward Homestead and get off at exit #19, SW 120 Street and go West to SW 137 Avenue. From the Florida Keys, take the Florida Turnpike North and get off at exit #19, SW 120 Street and go West to SW 137 Avenue. From Naples / Fort Myers, take either I-75 South or US 41 South to the Florida Turnpike, go south and get off at Exit #19, SW 120 Street and go West to SW 137 Avenue.
Phone: 305-233-5197
Fax: 305-232-4134
Web Site: www.cyberair.com/museums/usa/fl/wam.html
Admission: 9-5 daily excluding Thanksgiving and Christmas. Adults $24.95, seniors 60 and over $22.95, children 5-12 $13.95 and children under 4 are free . Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas days.
Further Info: Weeks Air Museum is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of aircraft from the beginning of flight through the end of the WWII era. This non-profit charitable organization opened in March 1987 and displays over 35 aircraft along with a wide variety of engines and propellers. The museum is unique in that most of these aircraft are maintained in flying condition.
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 35+
Last Update: 2004

Wings and Wheels Museum
Address: Orlando, Florida
Last Update: 1999

Yesterday?s Air Force
Address: Clearwater, Florida
Phone: (813) 581-7051
Number Of Planes In Inventory: 12+
Last Update: 1995

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