Palm Springs Air Museum
Air Museum Location/Address:
745 North Gene Autry Trail
Palm Springs, CA 92262-5464
Phone (760) 778-6262
Hours:
Open 7 days a week
Hours: 10:00 am until 5:00 pm. daily
Summer Hours: Summer Hours June 1 - Sept 30
Closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
Cost of Admission:
Adults - $10.00
Children - $5.00 (ages 6-12)
Family - $20.00 (2 adults + 3 children)
Children under age 6 — Free Admission
Military - $8.50 | Seniors - $8.50 | Students - $8.50
About the Air Museum
The Palm Springs Air Museum is an enlightening and educational museum dedicated to the restoration, preservation and operation of America's legendary fighters, bombers and trainers.
The airplane museum contains one of the world's largest collections of flying WWII airplanes, including the Robert J. Pond Collection. You can experience the roar of the "mightiest piston engines ever built."
Visitors here are invited to climb into some of the cockpits of some of the legendary fighter and bombers aircraft of World War II.
This museum offers Palm Springs Visitors a unique opportunity to view up close the actual planes that won the war that made important world and American history.
Group Guided Tours
Pre-arranged scheduled group tours are accommodated any day of the week between the hours of 9:00 am and 2:00 pm. Knowledgeable docents, many of whom are veterans and former pilots, are available to conduct fully escorted tours. The average length of time for these guided and escorted tours is between one and one half hours to two hours.
If you'd like your group's guided tour to include a movie at the Palm Springs Air Museum, the tour length runs up to 3 to three and one half hours.
Planning Your Group Tour:
If you'd like to arrange a tour, please note that the minimum tour group size is 15. For more information or to schedule a group guided tour at the Palm Springs Air Museum, please phone the Museum office at 1(760) 778-6262, Ext. 241 or e-mail: education@PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org
Self Guided Tours
for Individuals, Families
Providing flexibility for you and your group (small or large, or individuals or families), unscheduled and unguided tours can be accommodated daily from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm.
School and Youth Tours:
The Palm Springs Air Museum is dedicated to honoring the veterans of WWII, but also in educating children about WWII history. The museum acts as a very unique time capsule from the past. It is a place where you will find rare vintage aircraft that are still maintained in flying condition today. Youth tour groups are guided through the museum on an exciting journey through the history, science, and technology that make up our aircraft.
Along with our guided tours we also provide young people with a hands-on lesson in the science that makes flight possible and offer them the chance to experience what it is actually like to be in the cockpit with our flight simulators.
School and youth tours are available for groups of 10 or more between the hours of 10:00am and 3:30 pm Monday to Friday. Two weeks advance notice is requested/required. For more information, please call 760-778-6262, Ext. 241 or email: Education@PalmSpringsAirMuseum.org
Palm Springs Air Museum Hours:
Open seven days a week, from 10:00 am until 5:00 pm.
Summer Hours June 1 - Sept 30
Closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas Day
Museum Location:
Palm Springs Air Museum
745 North Gene Autry Trail
Palm Springs, CA 92262-5464
Phone (760) 778-6262 Palm Springs Air Museum
Located on the north side of the Palm Springs Airport, the Air Museum is housed in an impressive structure that includes the two main display halls and hangars, theatre, gift shop, ramp and airport access for flight demonstrations and visiting planes, research library, simulator and education center.
Located on Gene Autry Trail, 745 N Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs, Ca., 92262, 3 miles south of Interstate Ten (I-10), on the east side Palm Springs Ca Airport.
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The Palm Springs Airplane Museum
A Popular Tourist Point of Interest
in the Palm Springs Area
Featuring Twice Montly
Airplane Flight Demonstrations...
Held on Saturdays at 1 p.m.
Here at the Palm Springs Airplane Museum you can enjoy getting an up-close view of aerial history inside enormous, air-conditioned hangers, and afterwards watch a movie in the Buddy Rogers Theater at the Palm Springs Air Museum.
Also, after your tour and movie, you may want to visit the gift shop at the Palm Springs Air Museum, filled with a variety of airplane-themed souvenirs.
In addition to historic and well-preserved aircraft, the museum is home to a library of 6,300 books, magazines and other printed material related to aviation and American military history.
Featuring extensive displays, the museum also sponsors Saturday commemorative educational programs for Palm Springs area visitors that sometimes include exhibition flights of historic US military airplanes.
Special Flight Demonstrations
As a special treat to visitors on Saturday afternoon exhibition days, museum visitors can experience the distinctive sights and sounds that made world history.
Memorial Day
Flower Drop from the Sky
at Palm Springs Air Museum
The Palm Springs Airplane Museum will drop 3,000 carnations from the sky on Memorial Day, this year, Monday, May 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM at the Air Museum located at 745 N Gene Autry Trail in Palm Springs.
Family friendly activities for the whole family start at 10:00 am at The Museum. The flower drop honors who lost their life defending our country. White and red carnations are dropped from a vintage in-flight aircraft from the sky to honor US Veterans.
White carnations honor those who fought in WWI, WWII, Korea and Vietnam.
Red carnations are in honor of those who died in more recent conflicts including the Persian Gulf, Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Vintage Airplane Flight: A vintage B-25 Mitchell Bomber will drop the flowers on the Palm Springs Air Museum tarmac behind the museum. Heatwave Jazz Group performs at 12 noon and after the Flower Drop. TapExpress performs at 12:45. The museum is located at 745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs phone: (760) 778-6262.
Saturday Flights
of Vintage Airplanes
About twice monthly on Saturday afternoons at 1:00 p.m., on certain holidays (Memorial Day, Veteran's Day) and on special event dates, the Air Museum features actual in-air flight exhibitions and demonstrations of historic WW2 aircraft! A great family-friendly activity, you can see these historic and operational WW2 mightly flying and fighting machines in mid air.
For information about the next scheduled flight exhibition at the Palm Springs Air Museum, please phone (760)778-6262. The flight exhibits are always held on Saturday afternoons, starting at 1:00 p.m., approximately every other Saturday at the air museum in Palm Springs, Ca.
Ideal Climate for Displaying
and Preserving Airplanes
The warm and dry desert climate provides great conditions for preserving planes, and this impressive collection of historic planes is a Palm Springs landmark and top tourist attraction.
Special events are held frequently at the Palm Springs Air Museum and include air shows featuring the WWII-era aircraft, children's activities and lectures, often presented by the men and women who have either flown similar planes in the past or know people who did.
Aircraft on Exhibit at the Museum:
Here's a list of aircraft on display at the Palm Springs Air Museum in Palm Springs California:
F4F Wildcat (Grumman)
F6F Hellcat (Grumman)
F7F Tigercat (Grumman)
F8F Bearcat+ (Grumman)
TBF/TBM Avenger+ (Grumman)
F4U Corsair+ Chance Vought
C-1A COD Transport+ (Grumman)
F-14 Tomcat* (Grumman)
Grumman OA-13/G-21 Goose
Piper L-4A/J3 Cub Grasshopper+
Boeing Stearman PT-17 Kaydet+
Douglas C-47 Dakota+
McDonnell Douglas F4 Phantom*
McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet*
Consolidated PBY Catalina+
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress+
Bell P-63 Kingcobra+
North American B25 Mitchell+
Douglas SBD Dauntless
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt+
North American P51 Mustang+
Douglas A-26/JD1 (B26) Invader+
Curtiss P-40 Warhawk+
Supermarine Spitfire+
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon+
North American AT-6/SNJ Texan+
General Dynamics F-16 Falcon*
Grumman A6 Intruder*
Douglas A4 Skyhawk*
Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star+
The Airplane Museum in Palm Springs, Calif.
Address:
745 North Gene Autry Trail
Palm Springs, CA 92262
Phone (760) 778-6262
Website: Palm Springs Air Museum Website
Featuring extensive displays, the museum also sponsors Saturday commemorative educational programs for Palm Springs area visitors that sometimes include exhibition flights of historic US military airplanes. For information about the next scheduled flight exhibition at the Palm Springs Air Museum, please phone (760)778-6262.
As a special treat to visitors on the exhibition days, museum visitors can experience the distinctive sights and sounds that made world history.
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| Monthly Average Temperatures |
Month |
Avg High |
Avg Low |
Mean Avg |
Precip |
January |
70 |
44 |
57 |
1.27 in |
February |
75 |
47 |
61 |
1.15 in |
March |
80 |
51 |
65 |
0.63 in |
April |
88 |
56 |
72 |
0.08 in |
May |
95 |
63 |
79 |
0.06 in |
June |
104 |
70 |
87 |
0.05 in |
July |
108 |
76 |
92 |
0.19 in |
August |
107 |
76 |
92 |
0.40 in |
September |
101 |
71 |
86 |
0.39 in |
October |
91 |
61 |
76 |
0.11 in |
November |
78 |
50 |
64 |
0.29 in |
December |
70 |
43 |
57 |
0.61 in |
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