Carl & Sandee's National Park Adventures: Military Aviation Museum

While this is not a National Park, this is one of those little known museums that if you like military aviation history it is what I consider a "must see". Located in the city of Virginia Beach, Virginia about 6 miles from where we live it is much more than your average museum filled with air planes. ALL of these airplanes are in working order and fly regularly.

The museum is filled with airplanes from the First World War and the Second World War. The exhibits cover military history from the First World War through the Korean War. For just $12 for adults the museum packs allot and well worth the price of admission. This past Sunday Sandee and I took another trip to the museum as it was a nice sunny and warm day it was good to get outdoors to revisit.

Throughout the year the museum plays host to a number of events. In May the museum puts on its own air show and re-enactment. This entails flybys by most of the planes in the museum plus a number of Confederate Air Forces planes who participate in this event. In addition, there are a number of re-enactors dressed up in US, Italian, German and British regalia. And if you like the music from the World War II era, you can relax to the live sounds re-created by the Andrew Sisters look and sound a likes.

There are a number of other events as well, big dinner and dancing nights and flybys of aircraft to the sound of classical music just to name a few.

Anyway here are some of pictures of the aircraft you can see. In addition, the German World War hanger is REAL, not a re-creation. It was shipped to Virginia Beach, VA in pieces and put back together. In fact, you can even see the REAL bullet holes from Allied attacks on the hanger.

P-51 Mustang