Pima Air & Space Museum

Specialties

Pima Air & Space Museum, where you can touch 100 years of aviation history, is one of the largest air and space museums in the world, and THE largest non-​government funded. You’ll be amazed by more than 300 air– and spacecraft including many of the most historically significant and technically advanced craft ever produced. Knowlegdable docents are available to answer questions in five large air-​cooled hangars, two dedicated to WWII. Two different FREE docent-​led walking tours daily: «Highlights of Aviation» and «WWII.» A tram tour ($ 6 extra) provides a docent-​led tour of 150+ outside planes on the museum’s 80 acres. The museum also operates the exclusive «Aircraft Boneyard» bus tours of the 309^th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), the U.S. military’s 2600-​acre storage facility on the Davis-​Monthan Air Force Base ($ 7, government-​issued ID – driver’s license or passport – must be presented one hour before tour start for age 16 & older). We recommend purchasing tour tickets in advance as these tours can sell out (see our website for details). Plus enjoy a bonus museum, the 390^th Memorial Museum, located on the Pima Air & Space grounds and included with admission.

History

Established in 1976.

As part of the US’s bicentennial celebration the Arizona Aerospace Foundation opened with 75 planes. Today, the 80-​acre Pima Air & Space Museum exhibits 300 of the most important aircraft in the history of flight and more than 125,000 artifacts. Half ot the collection is in hangars: almost four football fields of indoor air-​cooled space.

This size and diversity of the museum’s collection is second only to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum collection. Aviation history is brought to life for visitors by museum volunteers who have first-​hand knowledge about many of the planes on display. Additionally, museum visitors can actually touch many of the aircraft on display because there no barriers around them.

It has an aircraft restoration shop, volunteer and membership programs, and hosts student tours free of charge. The museum is the exclusive provider of docent-​led tours to the world’s largest military aircraft storage facility at the «Boneyard”/AMARG.

Meet the Manager

ME E.

Manager

MEE has served in executive-​leadership, consulting and sales positions with domestic/​multi-​national advertising agencies and regional not-​for-​profits – including the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Sahuaro Girl Scout Council and Tohono Chul Park. She brings more than 20 years of experience in the marketing-​communications field to the Pima Air & Space and Titan Missile Museums. MEE graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a Marketing concentration. Her contributions have been recognized by Procter & Gamble (on both the Creative and Account-​Management sides), Kraft Foods — Dairy Division, AT&T, the American Red Cross’ national office and the Colorado Association of Realtors. MEE lives in Tucson, AZ where she breeds Hungarian pointers, aka vizslas, and annually announces the Tucson Rodeo Parade.

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ME E. says,

«The Titan Missile Museum and the Pima Air & Space Museum are both operated by the non-​profit, non-​government Arizona Aerospace Foundation.»