LOVE this museum. As a pilot myself, this is the best airplane museum in California. If you are in the area, I highly recommend you stop by. Very cool.

The small museum has a few unique jewels of the aviation with several supersonic aircrafts, including the amazing YF-23. You can sit inside the cockpit of a F-5 supersonic fighter, enjoy some awesome prototypes carefully curated by volunteers. Enjoy the awesome F-14 or a fully operating harrier. Bring your kids and enjoy this small but awesome flight museum. Arrive early, they close at 3PM.

Great visit! Absolutely unique aircraft like Prototypes of YF-17 and YF-23

Small museum taking up 2 hangers. Great information about the airport and development here through time. Only a handful of full size planes and dozens of models of varying scale. Lots of great information and informative staff. Free parking..

This place has some amazing facts... check it out

This museum sits right on a small airport, so the kids or yourself can watch personal aircrafts take off and land. Its a small museum, but full of history. They even have a library.

Nice little museum - all done through volunteers, very informative, many topics. You can sit in an actual fighter jet and take pics as much as you want. Bring a picnic as they have a sitting area - you get to see all the planes take of from the Zamperini airport! Really cool!

Great little museum. My son enjoyed getting into a jet fighter!

Location of YF-23 is a total let down. Together with a YF-17, F-14, A-4 & a T-38 at the eastern end of the airfield in a fenced up area, all exposed to the California sun. Rest of the museum comprises of a Saber, Harrier, F-5 & couple of early drones.

This is probably the smallest museum Ive ever been, but they have impressive collection, one 9fe the two prototype of YF-23 and the first ever production T-38. Chuck was very kind ang great host...

We love this place! Everyone working here is so informative and nice!

Great little museum with lots of mostly military aircraft. I had a personal tour with Ken. You can sit inside a fighter jet and get your picture taken.

Really cool pieces of history tucked away in a non descriptive hangar.... Oh and they have an F 23 prototype, as well as an F 18 prototype...

Seeing a prototype Northrop YF-23 was the highlight of our visit. Kind and knowledgeable docents and volunteers made the experience enjoyable. Well worth visiting.

Cool little museum with aircraft on display and kids can get inside the cockpit of one plane. Really cool history of aircraft and helpful attendants answering any questions. Five dollar donations for adults and free for kids 12 and under. History of South Bay aviation.

What a wonderful little museum! Great friendly staff and fascinating exhibits; much more than we had anticipated.

It is a very interesting and magical place, it has a great wealth. In history, the staff is very friendly making the tour very enjoyable. I highly recommend it, and take your children will love it

What a terrific gem! It isnt the largest aviation museum, by any means, but it has some rare treasures on display, for example one of two YF-23s ever made.Some of the aircraft, like the YF-23 and a YF-17, are on a back lot; ask nicely and a volunteer will show you around.There is also a large library with innumerable aviation books and a very fairly priced gift shop.If you are in the area and even slightly interested in aviation, then this is a must see museum.

Great exhibits. Dont forget to check out the additional planes at the end of the road.

A nice set of older aircraft and prototype. YF -23 is on the other side of the field. Staff there are very welcoming and knowledgable.

It was very interesting and the volunteer docents had a lot of information they were eager to share! Loved the model displays, too.

Amazing! The staff was passionate and well informed about everything there.

I enjoyed the tour of the museum. The docents were great. Thank you.

Great place for fans of Air and Space

This is a great place to take the family during the weekend.

For the European aviation enthusiast this is a PLACE to see! It is a pity the exposition places are far away from each other but the staff is really helpfull to reach the legendary YF-23 & YF-17

This is a great little museum for Torrance run by volunteers. There are a number of planes, displays, and videos. I even was able to sit in F5 fighter and was amazed at all the controls pilots had to deal with. Really enjoyed the video about the Torrance airport development over time. Location has free parking and you do not have to fight the Los Angeles traffic.

All volunteers, mostly modles with a few full size rare planes . Very informative.

I love it here.Its awesome that a local museum has one of only two YF-17s & a YF-23.I love the books Ive bought there too.Its a great place to come & learn some history about aviation. The Staff are friendly. They love their Museum & want to answer questions, so ask away.Im also glad it found a home here when it had to move from Hawthorne Airport. Very glad Zamperini Field welcomed them.

It is an excellent Museum to visit with Children of all ages. It is a great place of learning for them about Flight and Aviation.

The history on display spans decades of aircraft in the South Bay. A lot of course amazing stuff to look at and touch. Definitely not your average museum.

This is a great little museum with some nice pieces in it. A lot of models and planes in the main hanger. Across the way in the other hanger is a harrier. The harrier was very nice. You can take pictures of everything. The volunteers there are very friendly and helpful. At the end of my visit they told me to drive down to the end of the airport. There were more planes over there. An F-14, a YF-23 and a few more. If you like aviation then this is a good place to visit.

Interesting but very small. Some of the displays are on loan so they may eventually be moved. It has potential if they could build a larger facility for what they have.

I came her specifically to see the YF-17 and the YF-23 I didnt know how rare they were and I didnt know that the F-14 next to them was the F-14 in the movie top gun and so was the other marines aircraft they had. we were lucky to be able to see those planes up close thanks to the staff there I was able to. A very charming and nice veteran took me and my dad to see those planes and explained everything about the planes. there was an F-5A totally intact and there was a short line to enter the cockpit. there was somebody who explained a few things in the cockpit and how to takeoff etc etc... the gift shop was cool there were a lot of model planes. there was also a harrier jump jet and a F-86 sabre. overall I think it was a 10/10 experience mainly because of the rare planes and the very kind staff I got to talk to them all. if I could give this place more than 5 stars I really would.

Very friendly and helpful volunteers and great displays

Pretty good,we had a good time.The people there are pretty helpful,small place but good

Great place to visit for a few hours. They also have one of the two YF-22 (Grey Ghost) jets here. Its a 5 dollar donation to walk through the museum. Its worth helping them out. They also have guest speakers from time to time.

There are many exhibits to see. The space section is expanding! You can sit in a fighter jet or find books on air history in their gift shop. A five dollar donation is requested for adults. The volunteers are enthusiastic and able to answer questions. There is also a talk once a month I find very enriching.

Small and personable. Great people!

This place isnt very large, but if youre into planes and flight in general, its interesting. If you have kids its good for them to be able to see some real aircraft, some of which they can climb into the cockpit and play with the controls. You can also sit along the runway and watch small planes fly in and out of Torrance Airport.

Small and eclectic collection of all sorts of flight planes and models. Very interesting to learn about the local history and tidbits of heroes like Zamperini who the airfield was named after.

Amazing place packed with cool prototypes

Great place to visit if you would like to see some aviation

Not many exhibits, long walk to the YF-23 and F-14, wouldnt take more than an hour to see everything even with the walk

Excellent small museum.. has one of rwo XF-23 s. The Grey Ghost

Great little jewel hidden away. Had a great time with my Son.

My experience was horrible. I dont know even where to begin. At first I believe the museum was going be great, yet I was completely wrong. There was a tall black fence which was lock even though it was well pass opening hours for the door to remain unlock. There was a dial box adjacent to the door which you had dial in order call for someone open the door, yet no number was posted in box you for the front desk so that was useless, but lucky for me someone was coming out and open the door for me. You have to dial 111 to call the front desk to let them know you want to visit the museum. I was given this number already once inside the museum. The day I visit the Western Museum of Flight it was on a weekday and it was well pass 12:00 pm, yet only 3 hangers were open for viewing. The YF-23 prototype nickname Gray Ghost was nowhere in sight. I must have seen the whole museum in less than half an hour. The older people will leave you be once you are inside the museum they wont follow you around, maybe perhaps because their old and tired. Overall not the best experience I had in a museum I’ll give this museum a solid “D”

I got to see a actual F-14!!!!

The more famed planes, the YF-23 and YF-17 are held in a separate place, so ask them about a drive (free) to the place to check it out before it closes at 3:00PM. Staff was friendly except the lady at the counter.

It was a great experience for fathers day to enjoy w my son.

I was Year 2009 to going, what Western Museum of Flight

YF-23

Excellent aircraft museum, Northrup oriented, with an F5, other full scale planes, models, engines, a library and monthly lectures.

Neat things to see here.

I had a good experiences at the Western Museum of Flight on the wings of Freedom tour I hope the museum can expand and bring on more displays

Awesome place to stop and see, takes donations. Lots of history

Nice little museum with nice ppl who ive been told are volunteers. They may be small but they got fun exhibits including real cockpit you can sit in. :)

Come for the speaker series!

Interesting place, lots to see, helpful people ready to answer questions.

If youre into aviation this place is pretty cool. Very small in one of the hangars at the airport. Lots of planes, props, and other stuff, even a library to sit and read books on aviation.

Bring the kids or date. Very nice place on flight history.

Worth a quick stop by!

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As a pilot when I drop into Torrance Airport this a place I always drop by this place. Great historical aviation. Also see the Zamperini museum while at the Airport.

As a pilot when I drop into Torrance Airport this a place I always drop by this place. Great historical aviation. Also see the Zamperini museum while at the Airport.

The staff was very friendly. I will definitely go back again. Thanks everyone!!

I dont get a lot of opportunities to sit in an F-5A jet. That was a total treat! A relatively small museum, the volunteers were very nice and knowledgeable when it came to talking about planes. Especially the YF-23 prototype. I learned a lot going there. The only downside would be the fact that the YF-23 was not near the museum. Instead, pushed to the corner of the airstrip behind a fence. I would have loved to take a closer look at it. None the less, it was a good time for me.

Great monthly lectures by aviation history makers.Friendly docents accomodate and welcome kids too...except for that grumpy guy who is the embodiment of a stereotype, so even his gruffness makes you laugh.You gotta go!

Nice little museum. Very enthusiastic staff.

Lots of people reviewed this on Yelp. Take a look. Good place to take a family, and great for flight buffs.

A lot of information on these old planes.

You can see Harrier!!

Amazing enthusiasm from the pilots that work here

Always an interesting visit plus informative lectures

Awesome place for real fighters!

Nice place to visit and check historic airplanes

A great place to take the kids!

Nice small museum with friendly guides

Fun times for the kids & me !!

A great aviation museum with lots of artifacts.

Wonderful place with excellent people !!!

Awesome planes

Small Museum.

Nice museum with dedicated people

Good info and documentrys

Not much selection but my 3 years old Sun loved it.