Name of Trip: College Park Aviation Museum
Leader: Volunteer needed (meets carpool at Hillandale – is POC for any new people from Meetup, take attendance, go to Ledo’s): send Phil Boyer email if you can lead the trip: philboyer60@gmail.com
Date: Sunday, November 11, 2018
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.:
- 9:30 a.m. meet the carpool (below), or
- 10:00 a.m. at the museum (easy to park).
Location/Address:
1985 Corporal Frank Scott Drive
College Park, MD 20740
Phone: 301-864-6029
College Park Aviation Museum Map
Cost: $3 for tour, includes admission to museum.
Photo 2012 by Paul Dee
Carpool location/time:
Meet at the northeast corner of the parking lot of Hillandale Shopping Center at 9:30 a.m.:
From New Hampshire Blvd (650), take Powder Mill Rd. to the first entrance on the right and into the lot, then an immediate left and park at the top of the lot, (catty-corner from Unique Thrift Store and opposite from Domino’s):
1731 Powder Mill Road, Silver Spring, MD 20903.
See arrow on map below.
Overview:
Join the Silver Spring Camera Club for an interesting visit to a local aviation museum, and the oldest continuously operating airport in the world. We’ve arranged a group tour, see details below. Should be lots of photo ops of historic airplanes. See museum website for location and other details: About-the-Museum
Museum visitors will travel through time, from the early years of the Wright Brothers’ airplanes through present-day, and experience how and why airplanes have changed. They will enjoy a hands-on experience of becoming a pilot, and see how flight gear changed as airplanes improved.
On the tour, visitors will also have a chance to fly our imagination plane and learn how flying controls have changed through the years. Weather permitting, they will also get to venture outside to see up close how the oldest continuously operating airport in the world operates today.
Historic Venue
The museum is a 27,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility located on the grounds of the world’s oldest continuously operating airport in College Park, Maryland. The airport was founded in 1909 when Wilbur Wright came here to give flight instruction to the first military aviators.
Exhibits
Visitors to the museum step into an open 1 1/2 story exhibit space, which highlights the display of unique aircraft and artifacts and tells the story of the airport’s many firsts in flight to today.
The museum gallery contains historic and reproduction aircraft associated with the history of the airfield, as well as hands-on activities and interpretive areas.
Lunch:
After the museum we can go out to lunch at the famous The Original Ledo Restaurant to discuss what we saw or the latest news.
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Your participation acknowledges the following disclaimer:
I hold Silver Spring Camera Club (SSCC) and each member of SSCC, individually and collectively, blameless for any injury that may occur to me or my guests or my property while participating in any SSCC activity or event.
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