Air Mobility Command Museum

Where do old military airplanes go? According to the website, they go to the Air Mobility Command Museum in Dover, DE- "the only museum dedicated to airlift and air refueling history." For those of you who don't know, Brian's dad was a pilot in the Air Force, so we wanted to go see the airplanes while we were in Dover. Ever since our visit, both Brian and I have stated how impressed we were with the museum (and the kids liked it, too). There were many airplanes that we could look at, and even a few that we could go inside of. In addition to this, the museum was located right next to a runway so airplanes were landing at various times during our visit. The kids loved it!


Having Brian's dad with us was a real plus. He was able to tell us all kind of interesting facts about the planes and share some stories of personal experience with us. I love this picture of the kids in the cockpit with their poppy. He is explaining how to operate the airplane to Olivia, and she is paying attention as well as can be expected for a 2-year old. Owen, on the other hand, is doing everything that he is not suppose to do (which seems to be happening frequently these days).

The highlight of the visit to the museum was that the kids got to fly their very own airplane- just kidding. But, they would have if they could have. They loved sitting in this little yellow plane and pretending.