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Family Day at the Museum

Take an exciting trip through 100 years of military aviation with inspiring & educational programs 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, July 3 at the Airbase Arizona Flying Museum at Mesa's Falcon Field Airport, 2017 N. Greenfield Road (NE corner of McKellips & Greenfield roads.)

Enjoy reduced admission & activities for young and old. Adult admission $5 per person or $10 for a family group of four (children age 5 and under are free).

Special activities include: 
• Kids Adventure Hunt (ages 11 and under) - Apply reading & recognition skills like a detective to solve eight mini-mysteries. Handout available all day. 
• Hidden Treasures Tour (all ages) - Get the inside scoop on many unique military artifacts and little-known stories from the side-bars of history and found in the exhibits at Airbase Arizona. Tour takes about 30 minutes and is offered at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. 
• Fly a Balsa or Foam Airplane (ages 11 and under) - Our activity area will be open for supervised flying of toy aircraft. One will be provided or bring your own design (wing span no larger than 20 inches). 
• Tommy Tailspin - 1930s Vintage Movie Serial (all ages) - Follow the exploits of young aviation entrepreneurs and the evil crooks who try to stop them. Showing all day in video seating area on museum floor. 
• Featured Warbird for July:  C-47 'Old Number 30' - This actual combat veteran flew airborne troops in the invasion of Sicily in 1943, and delivered spies, mules, (yes, mules!) and supplies drops in the 1944 Balkan Campaign. It left military service in 1946 to become an airliner and then an executive aircraft.
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