Port Townsend Aero Museum

This is a great spot for anyone interested in aviation, local history, and a cool place to take the kids. My family visited and found a clean, well laid out museum filling out an aircraft hangar. The place is basically run by volunteers and folks involved in various restoration projects. Besides the gift shop with tons of goodies for kids of all ages, there are books, models, and many wonderful examples of vintage aircraft. The rates for tickets are correct on the website...its that inexpensive!!!! Come out, see a great museum and visit a great airport and check out the Spruce Goose cafe! Yummy food right by the flight line! Well be visiting again!

Great displays! They have full size aircraft, models, paintings, and engines. It was a great size to keep us interested without tiring us out too much. There was a small gift shop and a table full of interesting aviation related books and magazines. Staff was friendly and helpful.

Very nice bunch of displays. It is a great place to spend some time with friends and family and learn at the same time.

Super cool antique airplanes! I learned that most are still flight worthy and are even still flown. Not to mention they have a really great program with the local high school in which some responsible students get to help restore the planes!

So many planes! Their students regularly fly many of them. There is a flight simulator there that was built in 1929 to train pilots in instrument flying, built for the Army Air Corps.You can get close enough to most of the airplanes to touch them, but please dont.After the museum, we went to the Spruce Goose Cafe next door and had lunch while we watched airplanes land and take off.

Loved the Museum and the wonderful program that it supports! My client loved having the hangor there as well. Have friends coming to visit and told them they must se the museum, and get pie too!

Our expectations were low considering the size of this airport, but this is a real aviation museum! They do a fantastic job with the resources available to them. And its definitely not crowded.

Best Aircraft museum around Great for High Schoolers.

This is a nice little hole-in-the wall museum featuring small yet historically significant aircraft that are still airworthy and occasionally flown to this day. There is also some awesome artwork and pictures depicting other aircraft of various makes through history. This is a quick look, roughly an hour to see it all in detail, and is fun for all ages.

Very accommodating staff. Generous volunteers who believe in keeping aviation history alive for future generations. Actual newspaper from Paris on the Lindbergh flight across the Atlantic. Very cool! Well worth your time for the aviation enthusiast, or not, still worth it.

A very nice collection of aircraft, all in amazing shape.

Excellent local aviation history in flyable craft. A youth development program is exemplar supporting future pilots and support crew.

All the planes work. They are flown. They are restored by teens at the museum. And that is really cool. The museum features a lot of early flight aircraft and some unique single seaters. Highly recommend if you are in the port Townsend area

Fun to see vintage planes that werent only used for war that still can fly! Good variety! Cool involvement of teenagers. And fun historical pictures too.

A small, private indoors aero museum with a nice selection of planes, most of which are still flown from time to time, and aircraft artwork. Inexpensive, and we had a really nice chat with the volunteer at the front desk. The selection of planes rotates occasionally. They also have a program that teaches aircraft restoration. It definitely rates a repeat visit when Im back up to the area.

The best museum of small aviation which i was passed ever.

Awesome planes, every plane flies except 2 very impressive! Lots of history and photos very nice museum

Wow! This place has an incredible collection of vintage aircraft and exhibits about aviation history. Quite a find and well worth a couple of hours.

Some nice old aircraft worth seeing.

A must see for enthusiasts or the curious. Great staff and displays.

Great museum in Port Townsend. It would be easy to stop on the way in or out from town. Wonderful spot to see some classic airplanes.

Great people and customer service. An overall amazing opportunity for youth

Excellent collection for such a small museum. Would highly recommend.

A really nice collection of superbly restored aircraft, including some that are real rare.

Very nice, well laid out. Lots of planes on display.

Great little aviation museum. They recently inherited many planes from the Concrete museum that closed.

Gem of a museum for aviation enthusiasts!

Great collection of planes. Informative staff

Not much too see especially for the cost

Some very cool planes and nice informative displays.

Excellent museum! Well worth a visit. Spruce Goose great for lunch.

Immaculate building and antique collection maintained by the young pilots who volunteer and learn there. Also an incredible collection of authentic framed aviation photographs and artwork.

Make it a part of any port townsend visit, only takes an hour to see the collection

Great little museum. Very friendly staff thats more then willing to show you around and tell you the history of some of their classic aircraft. These are more vintage private aircraft then warbirds, so dont expect a P-51, but some really nice classic bi-planes.

Great aircraft museum! Have a lot of old aircraft that you can practically touch.

Great museum with nice displays.

Ive been an airplane nut most of my 75 years. I earned my commercial ticket in 1969 thanks to the G.I. bill. But I made my living doing more mundane stuff, however, and feed my flying bug with visits to aviation museums, membership in EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association) and subscriptions to flying magazines. When the opportunity arose in 1988 to support the founding of a new aviation museum in my Oregon town, I purchased a life membership. Eventually, after retiring from my boring day job, I got involved in the museums operation as a volunteer and as a director. I learned a lot about what it takes to make a volunteer-run non-profit thrive. The secret is a simple one word formula: LOVE.After selling my Oregon home and moving to the Olympic peninsula (Sequim, WA) I paid a visit to the Port Townsend Aero Museum at Jefferson County International Airport. A friend who had been there recommended it and suggested that Id find it attractive. He spoke great truth.General Aviation... the private, non-commercial sector of flying, has been struggling for survival since the 1960s when some landmark product liability court cases put the Pipers, Cessnas and other light plane manufacturers into economic limbo. While the death of General Aviation has been so far avoided, the economic realities have priced the common man out of flying. In the late 1960s my private pilot license required an investment of about $800. Today that license will cost about $10 thousand. Without young people getting interested in flying, the future of General Aviation is bleak.PTAM was established in 2001with a unique and inspiring mission that addresses this problem beautifully. With a collection of about 30 aircraft built in the 1920s, 30 and 40s, the museum offers job skills training to teen-aged volunteers. Young applicants pledge one day per week working at the museum restoring, maintaining and learning to fly these antique aircraft. When they are not working with tools, they are attending ground school or getting one-on-one instruction. They are supervised by licensed aviation mechanics and certified flight instructors. Some of these kids are able to achieve their first solo flight before they get their WA drivers license!The aircraft collection is amazing. The quality of the restoration work exceeds anything I have seen elsewhere... and Ive been to many aviation museums across the country. The pristine condition of these aircraft is even more impressive when one considers that the majority of them are regularly flown... and a few of them are exceedingly rare! The adjacent restoration facility accepts private projects at competitive rates with all profits benefiting the museum collection and educational mission. The museum receives no taxpayer support and is an IRS 501(c)(3) charity.The museum is open from 9AM till 4PM Wednesday thru Sunday. Admission is $10 for adults, $9 for seniors, $7 for youth 7 to 12, and children 6 and under are free. Groups of 15 or more are eligible for special rates (call ahead). Memberships are available.

Grate place for kids lets to see

Well done.

Awesome.

Cute little museum