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Pima Air & Space Museum

Touch 100 years of aviation history

Yes

Variety. The Pima Air & Space Museum is the 3rd largest aviation museum in the US (behind the Smithsonian Air & Space and the US Air Force Museum). It's the largest privately-funded aviation museum in the world. We have more than 300 planes on 80 acres, many rare and one-of-a-kind. All of our aircraft (airplanes and helicopters predominantly plus more than 125,000 artifacts including a moon rock, engine displays, etc.) are "static" (they do not fly, nor do we plan to return any of them to flying status). In addition, at the museum we don't have many barriers so visitors can walk up and actually touch most of the airplanes including an SR-71 (the world's fastest spyplane), the VC-118 (the propeller plane referred to as "Air Force One" when Presidents Kennedy and Johnson flew on it), the B-52 that launched the X-15 and from which all of the Mercury astronauts earned their official "astronaut" designation (flew 50 miles above the earth). This close proximity is great for taking photos of the airplanes and helicopters. We house half of the collection in five huge hangars and 150 more outside "in the Arizona sunshine" (Tucson has 350 days of sunshine per year). We have a current logo that represents a monument at our entrance called the "Beauty of Flight" however most of our visitors are from out of town and don't see the "giant logo" until they are on our grounds. In addition, people expect to take rides on planes at our museum and we do not offer that service (a few other aviation museums do). We rely on admissions and museum store sales to support our collection so the logo needs to lend itself to being applied to hats, shirts, mugs, key chains, etc., including needing a one-color version.

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