Pima Air & Space Museum
The Pima Air & Space Museum is one of the largest aviation museums in the world, and the largest non-government funded aviation museum in the United States. The museum maintains a collection of more than 350 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe including many rare and one-of-a-kind and more than 125,000 artifacts. Exhibits at the museum include some of the world's greatest aviation heritage, including military, commercial and civil aviation. Among these exhibits is the SR-71 Blackbird, the world¹s fastest plane, a B-29 Superfortress, the highest flying and fastest WWII bomber, a rare World War II German V-1 "buzz bomb," and a new state-of-the-art 787-Dreamliner. The museum has six large hangars totaling more than 177,000 square feet of indoor exhibit space. Pima Air & Space maintains its own aircraft restoration center, and also offers exclusive tours of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), also known as the "Bone Yard" (across from the museum at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 10-business day advance reservation required). The Pima Air & Space Museum is located at 6000 E. Valencia Road, Tucson, Exit 267 off Interstate 10. The museum is open daily except Thanksgiving and Christmas, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with last admission at 3 p.m.www.pimaair.org
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Oct 16, 2026
Peter Grubby StubbsGUEST
See a London bus?
Tony MoclairHOST
Pima Air & Space Museum, Leanne?
Peter Grubby StubbsGUEST
Go up to York-
LeanneAUDIENCE
Beautiful buildings too
Matt BoneHOST
So let's go have a look.
Matt BoneHOST
Welcome to the Aviation Show, brought to you in association with the Pima Air and Space Museum.
Matt BoneHOST
So the first thing we need to talk about is the name.
Matt BoneHOST
So growing up reading old books, we would say Waco, but it's not.
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Matt BoneHOST
But we'll put all the details of that in the description as well.
Matt BoneHOST
Do all the likes and subscribes.
Matt BoneHOST
Thank you, as always, to the Pima Air and Space Museum for continued sponsoring and supporting of the show.
Matt BoneHOST
And until next time, everybody, all the best from Troy, Ohio.
Tail DraggerHOST
If you haven't stood next to one, the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia has an example in their collection.
Tail DraggerHOST
Pima Air and Space in Tucson has airframes as well.
Tail DraggerHOST
And if you're in Europe and the timing works out, there have been years when the Breitling Super Constellation has been flying at air shows.
Tail DraggerHOST
Hearing those four rights at full power on takeoff is not something you forget.
MaxHOST
Maybe they could scavenge some parts, like, maybe ones that were indoors.
MaxHOST
Like, the Pima Air & Space Museum, that one's indoors, right? If I remember correctly, or is, is it not? Or it's covered or something? I can't remember.
MaxHOST
But-
DylanHOST
Uh, I can't remember.
Ryan BahrkeGUEST
Sure
Jorge AquinoHOST
... um, one year, that, that, my senior year, we, we got a small gig, um, and we went ahead and played at, uh, the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson.
Ryan BahrkeGUEST
Oh, you got a, you got paid?
Jorge AquinoHOST
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jorge AquinoHOST
But one of our friends, his dad was in the Air Force, and they were having-
Ryan BahrkeGUEST
Okay
Jorge AquinoHOST
... like this really, really nice reception at the Pima Air & Space Museum.
Jorge AquinoHOST
And so they, we were invited to play, and we did.
Scott MarchandGUEST
And, yeah, and if you're really... enterprising and they're light on your feet you can squeeze both in in a day and we offer a combination ticket that also you know you can upgrade to a two-day ticket well you also have i want to talk about
Robert CareyHOST
this because you know clearly we're talking about the pima air and space museum in tucson for folks but yeah about 25 miles down the road you've got the titan missile museum and that's also part of the family so give a little bit of info on that
Scott MarchandGUEST
Yeah, so that is a preserved, retired Titan II ICBM launch complex.
Scott MarchandGUEST
It's the full underground silo, and it was decommissioned and retired by the Air Force in 1984, and they approached us to be their operating partner, and we opened in 1986 for there.
Liam CallinanGUEST
He did.
Liam CallinanGUEST
In fact, part of this book, I was down in the Pima Air and Space Museum doing a little work down there and researching it.
Liam CallinanGUEST
And on his way to Hawaii, he actually took a long way from Ohio, stopped in many places from Texas to California.
Liam CallinanGUEST
But one of those places was Tucson.