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Pima Air and Space Museum Review
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Pima Air and Space Museum
Museums / Galleries, South
Fodor's Review:
This huge facility ranks among the largest private collections of aircraft in the world. More than 200 airplanes are on display, including a presidential plane used by both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, a full-scale replica of the Wright brothers' 1903 Wright Flyer, and a mock-up of the X-15, the world's fastest aircraft. World War II planes are particularly well-represented. Hour-long van tours of Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) -- affectionately called "The Boneyard" -- at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base provide an eerie glimpse of hundreds of mothballed aircraft lined up in rows on a vast tract of desert; you must reserve in advance for the tour.
INFO
- Address: 6000 E. Valencia Rd., I-10, Exit 267, South, Tucson, AZ
- Phone: 520/574-0462
- Web site
- Cost: $11.75; tram tour $5; AMARC tour $6
- Open: Daily 9-5, last admission at 4; AMARC tours weekdays only
WHAT'S NEARBY
- Sights
- Mission San Xavier del Bac
- Entertainment
- Casino of the Sun
- Desert Diamond Casinos
- Shopping
- Stewart Boot Manufacturing
- Driving to TUCSON
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