PIMA Air and Space Museum
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PIMA Air and Space Museum has over 300 aircraft and many of them are
specialties or historic. You can easily spend an entire day wandering the
grounds. While I was up on the steps of the aircraft to the left a guy stepped
up and asked "do you have any questions about my plane?". Wow was he full of
information about this Vietnam era plane. This particular one was used for dog
fighting. |
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PIMA is one of the largest museums of it's type in the world. While there we
ate at the Cafe on the grounds and the food was really pretty good and
prices were reasonable. There are a number of hangers with indoor displays.
They also offer guided tram tours for a small fee of course. I was looking for
the hot stewardesses on this TWA plane but alas I didn't see any and
Karen made me leave. |
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You can also take a bus tour of the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and
Regeneration Group (AMARG) known as the "Boneyard". There are over 4,000
planes in storage there on the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The photo to
the left if a small part of this Boneyeard. The picture below left is of
the first Supper Guppy (SG) built directly from the fuselage of a C-97J
Turbo Stratocruiser, the military version of the Boeing 377. |
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