Flight Museum
Depending on the role of aviation, you are interested in, the different flight museums focus on different aspects of flight. Whether it is civilian, or private, commercial or military different museums offer a different focus on the adventures of flight.

For example, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington offers a glimpse of flight history with full-scale planes on display such as the Concorde or the SR-71 Blackbird where visitors can feel what it was like to sit in the cockpit of these flying marvels. The Seattle Museum of Flight is also the home of the Boeing Museum of Flight with a display of the Red Barn, the company’s birthplace.

Located at Love Field in Dallas, Texas the Frontiers of Flight Museum and the Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston, Texas looks at flight from two perspectives. Frontiers on Flight see the first war machines going higher and faster than any others while Lone Star exhibits traces flight back to Wright Brothers and the longest flight of their day, lasting 59 seconds and covering just under 900 feet.

Many flight museums spread across the country also offer flight simulators in which visitors can learn what actual flight may have felt like in the early days of flying. Probably the largest and most extensive collection of flight history is the National Air and Space Museum at the Smithsonian Institute. The collection tracks every aspect of flight from the Wright Brothers, through the military battles to the space shuttle. This flight museum even has the original USS Enterprise, used in filming the TV series Star Trek.