Conference: Visit San Diego’s Air and Space Museum

Courtesy of the San Diego Air & Space Museum

Things to do: With San Diego having one of the richest aviation heritages of any city in the country, it would follow that its Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park is a top tourist attraction and one that USMCCCA Conference attendees won’t want to miss.

Convair, home of such famous aircraft as the B-24 Liberator and the PBY Catalina, was founded here. Ryan Aeronautical, home of Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis, was located here, and North Island Naval Air Station is the home of naval aviation. Much of that knowledge is captured and conveyed through the Museum, a major institution unique to the region and one of the preeminent aviation museums in the nation.

The cost to visit the Museum is for retired military and seniors is $15.  Active duty military get in free.  There is adequate free parking in front of the Museum and there is food available at the Alaskan Airlines Grill.