Travel+Leisure magazine recently ranked the 10 best aviation museums in the country, thank you George!

Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum, didn't exist when I was stationed there... and it's on Ford Island, which now has a bridge to it. 

Museum of Flight, Seattle

The Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum

The Intrepid in New York City

Space Center Houston

National Museum of the US Air Force, Dayton Ohio

San Diego Air and Space Museum, in Balboa Park, next to the Automotive Museum, the other museums, and the San Diego Zoo

Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas 

Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum, Oregon

Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson

https://www.travelandleisure.com/best-aviation-museums-in-the-us-11748082

https://www.hereisoregon.com/places/2025/07/pacific-northwest-is-home-to-2-of-the-best-aviation-museums-in-the-country.html

the San Diego Air and Space Museum at the Gillespie Field annex (next to the Atlas Missile)

how they talked the military into donating to the museum such a variety is amazing

so tiny it fits on a pallet!

recreation of the speed of sound breaking aircraft Bell X1 getting body and paint

fairgrounds rides Stinson

a Willys 1/4 ton

The Ryan X13 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-that-rare-occasion-when-i-found-and.html

one of the guys at the museum said this was early 1910s, and mostly original

connections between early vehicles and aircraft, multiple innovators used a variety of car and motorcycle parts to power early aircaft

1958 home made helicopter with a Triumph engine

1925 Henderson/Indian engine with a Ford Model T front wheel spindle used as prop shaft

and a engine from McCulloch for a target drone project. McCulloch supercharger and Magneto

all found at the San Diego Air and Space Museum  loacation at the Santee airstrip at Gillespie Field

If you are in San Diego, I can recommend the following museums, the Air and Space, and the Automotive

Fantastic static display SR 71