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TOP 25 AIRCRAFT/AVIATION MUSEUMS IN THE USA

The United States is blessed with hundreds of aircraft & aviation museums. Some of these museums are focused on a specific brand or type of aircraft, whereas others offer a more eclectic collection. To help you make the best of your travel time, we have put together a highly-opinionated list of what we believe to be the top 25 aircraft & aviation museums in the United States. It is not an easy task to pick 25 museums out of a pool of hundreds, so this web-page will forever be a work-in-progress as we travel & visit more aircraft & aviation museums across the USA.

This top 25 aircraft & aviation museums list is sorted alphabetically by state (and not by quality or rank).

STATE	MUSEUM NAME	TOWN / CITY	HOW MANY AIRCRAFT? (as of December 2015)
Alabama	Southern Museum of Flight	Birmingham	more than 90 aircraft
Arizona	Pima Air & Space Museum	Tucson	more than 270 aircraft
Arizona	Planes of Fame Air Museum	Williams	more than 150 aircraft, more than 50 of which are flyable
California	March Field Air Museum	Riverside	more than 70 aircraft
California	San Diego Air & Space Museum	San Diego	more than 50 aircraft
Colorado	Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum	Denver	nearly 50 aircraft
Delaware	Air Mobility Command Museum	Dover	more than 30 aircraft
Florida	National Naval Aviation Museum	Pensacola	more than 150 aircraft from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard
Georgia	National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force	Pooler	more than 100 aircraft
Georgia	Museum of Aviation	Warner Robbins	more than 90 aircraft
Kansas	Mid-America Air Museum	Liberal	more than 100 aircraft
Michigan	Air Zoo	Portage	more than 60 rare and historic airplanes & spacecraft
New York	Cradle of Aviation Museum	Garden City	more than 75 air and space craft in 8 exhibit galleries
New York	Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum	New York City	tour an aircraft carrier and see more than two dozen historic aircraft
New York	Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome	Rhinebeck	more than 60 antique airplanes, automobiles, and artifacts
North Carolina	Carolinas Aviation Museum	Charlotte	more than 50 aircraft
Ohio	National Museum of the U.S. Air Force	Dayton	more than 360 aircraft
Oregon	Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum	Hood River	nearly 80 aircraft
Oregon	Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum	McMinnville	more than 200 historic aircraft and exhibits on display
South Dakota	South Dakota Air & Space Museum	Rapid City	more than 30 vintage military aircraft
Utah	Hill Aerospace Museum	Ogden	more than 90 aircraft
Virginia	Military Aviation Museum	Virginia Beach	more than 60 vintage airplanes
Washington	Museum of Flight	Seattle	more than 150 aircraft in its collection
Washington, D.C.	National Air & Space Museum	Washington, D.C.	unknown, but it holds the largest collection of historic aircraft in the world
Wisconsin	EAA AirVenture Museum	Oshkosh	more than 200 aircraft

Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Utah

RUNNER-UPS: MUSEUMS ALMOST GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE THE TOP 25 LIST

Here are a list of other outstanding aircraft & aviation museums in the United States that we considered for the top 25 list above. Let us know if you think there are any other museums of this quality that we should be considering, either for this "runners-up" list or for the above top 25 list itself (email = gparsons66 @ hotmail.com).

STATE	MUSEUM NAME	TOWN / CITY	HOW MANY AIRCRAFT? (as of December 2015)
Alabama	United States Army Aviation Museum	Fort Rucker	more than 45 aircraft on display
California	Castle Air Museum	Atwater	nearly 70 restored vintage military aircraft
California	Palm Springs Air Museum	Palm Springs	more than 30 aircraft on display
Connecticut	New England Air Museum	Windsor Locks	more than 65 aircraft
Florida	Florida Air Museum at Sun 'n Fun, The	Lakeland	nearly 30 aircraft
Florida	Valiant Air Command Warbird Museum	Titusville	more than 45 historic warbirds
Hawaii	Pacific Aviation Museum Pearl Harbor	Honolulu (Oahu)	more than 40 WWII-era aircraft
Kansas	Combat Air Museum	Topeka	more than 30 military aircraft
Maine	Owls Head Transportation Museum	Owls Head	nearly 30 aircraft
Nebraska	Strategic Air & Space Museum	Ashland	more than 30 aircraft
New Jersey	Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum	Cape May	more than 26 aircraft
New Mexico	War Eagles Air Museum	Santa Teresa	more than 30 historic aircraft
New York	Glenn H. Curtiss Museum	Hammondsport	nearly two dozen historic aircraft
Oklahoma	Stafford Air & Space Museum	Weatherford	more than 20 aircraft
Pennsylvania	Mid-Atlantic Air Museum	Reading	nearly two dozen military aircraft plus 40 civilian aircraft
Tennessee	Beechcraft Heritage Museum	Tullahoma	more than 25 aircraft
Texas	Frontiers of Flight Museum	Dallas	more than 30 aircraft and space vehicles
Texas	Lone Star Flight Museum	Galveston	more than 40 historic aircraft
Texas	Silent Wings Museum	Lubbock	unknown
Virginia	Virginia Air & Space Museum	Hampton	more than 30 historic aircraft
Virginia	Virginia Aviation Museum	Richmond	more than 35 historic aircraft

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