Pima Air & Space Museum

Our Tucson area trek included a visit to the Pima Air & Space Museum.

It's my understanding that Pima is the largest privately-funded, nongovernmental air & space museum. In the U.S. only the Smithsonian and The National Museum of the Air Force at Wright-Patterson are larger. Pima has a variety of military and civilian/commercial aircraft on display numbering  300+. It has several indoor hangars, plus outside walking tours (on your own or even via a tram).

We did the tram ride and it was most informative. It takes about an hour and I recommend it to get a wonderful overview of the outside exhibits. Our guide was a former Air Force pilot who described the aircraft and provided some very interesting anecdotal information. This allowed us to decide which to later walk to in order to get a better and more detailed view. Far too many aircraft inside and outside to post here, so here is a sampling.

We ran the lunar lander simulator and got scores of 13 and 15. We ended our tour with a walk on the moon!

There's ample parking and we were in the "overflow" lot which is also for RVs. We could have fit within the normal lot, but the walking distance was slight and so we decided to park with the Class A's.

After the tram ride we took a short walking tour on our own:

The museum includes exhibits of both fixed wing and rotating aircraft, and interactive stuff.

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