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Free Admission for Smithsonian Museum Day!

September 10, 2022
Join us on Saturday, September 17th to celebrate Smithsonian Museum Day! Daily admission will be free for all ages. No pre-registration or tickets are required. Our hours of operation will be from …
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The Florida Air Museum is partnering with Explorations V!

August 2, 2022
We are excited to announce that the Florida Air Museum and Explorations V (soon to be renamed the Florida Children’s Museum) have partnered to create a discount for our members! Florida Air …
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Now Showing!

July 28, 2022
NOAA; Science on a Sphere Science on a Sphere showings are now available for Florida Air Museum visitors! For an additional $5.00 per person, you can experience a 30 minute show to learn …
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The Florida Air Museum is excited to announce Story Time!

July 28, 2022
Starting August 16th, the Florida Air Museum will be hosting Story Time on Tuesday’s at 10:00 AM. This is a free event and open to all ages!
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Father’s Day Promotion

June 14, 2022
Join us on June 19th, 2022 as we celebrate Father’s Day! Dads will receive free admission with the purchase of 1 Adult or 1 Youth admission. Our hours of operation on Father’s …
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Piper-Fuller Field: St. Petersburg’s First Airport

December 20, 2021
Piper-Fuller field was built and dedicated in 1926 as the city’s first dedicated airport and featured three grass runways in the heart of the lower Pinellas Peninsula. Built by H. Walter Fuller …
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Unknowing Pioneers and the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line

December 13, 2021
Just over a decade after Wright Brother’s first flight at Kittyhawk, North Carolina, aviation had yet to find practical use. Barnstormers traveled the countryside in search of passengers but the airplane and …
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Hughes XF-11 Gearboxes and Wind Tunnel Model

November 30, 2021
The air was calm and the sun was starting to creep down towards the horizon as Howard Robard Hughes donned his signature hat and carefully stepped into the cockpit of his newly …
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The Bushnell Project: Chemical Warfare Amidst the Pines.

November 24, 2021
Over the course of the second world war, the number of military bases on the Floridian peninsula skyrocketed from 12 to nearly 200 as the Navy and Army Air Corps began to …
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Another World First: Kissimmee’s Air Ordinance, 1908

November 22, 2021
The fledging City of Kissimmee in Osceola County was barely 25 years old when aviation started to spread like wildfire across the world’s imagination. Of course, only eight years had passed since …
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J.A.D. McCurdy and The World’s First Wireless Air to Ground Transmission

November 18, 2021
The world’s first wireless transmission from an aircraft occurred over West Palm Beach, Florida in February 1911 with John Alexander Douglas McCurdy at the controls. J.A.D. McCurdy was a Canadian aviation pioneer …
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Dale Mabry and the Roma

November 16, 2021
Captain Dale Mabry was one of Florida’s very first aviation heroes. Due to an impressive family tree and a drive to experience flight, he enlisted and served in the U.S. Army’s 10th …
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