Museum Field Trips

Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum
The Champlin Fighter Aircraft Museum is famous around the world as the premier fighter aircraft museum. This incredible international collection includes fighter airplanes that have made "Ace" - aircraft types with 5 or more air-to-air combat victories. The thirty-eight (38) planes seem ready to take off into the wild blue yonder. They are flyable! From the early open-cockpit biplanes of WWI through the powerful jets of Vietnam and Desert Storm - they're all here.
8:30 until 3:30 daily April 15 - Sept. 15 (summer) and then 10:00 until 5:00 Sept. 16 - April 14th (winter). Admission is $6.50 for Adults, $3.50 for Children ages 5 - 12 and Children under 5 are free. Visitors can buy memorabilia and model planes in a large gift shop. Call for Special Group Tour Rates and arrangements. The museum is located on Falcon Field Airport at 4636 Fighter Aces Drive. From U.S. 60 take the Greenfield exit north to McKellips Road. Make a right on McKellips and then make your first left onto Falcon Drive. Then turn left on to Fighter Aces Drive. The museum will be on your right.

Hall of Flame Museum
The Hall of Flame has over 35,000 square feet of exhibits, with almost 90 fully restored pieces of fire apparatus on display, dating from 1725 to 1968. Most of the exhibits are American, but we also have pieces from England, France, Austria, Germany, and Japan. The Hall of Flame also sponsors the National Firefighting Hall of Heroes, which honors firefighters who have died in the line of duty or who have been decorated for heroism. 6101 East Van Buren Street Free parking Special school rate: $2 per person 8 students min./30 students max. for either: Pre-K to Grade 1--special story hour by reservation or grades 2 & up tour by reservation.
Climb on a fire truck, tour the museum of firefighting equipment and history.

Japanese Tea House, Garden & Pottery Studio
Margaret T. Hance Park/Central & Culver
Groups of 30 are split into 3 groups and rotate through 3 activities: outdoor education on Japanese culture OR visit a working pottery studio were tea bowls are made, attend a traditional tea ceremony & a tour of a traditional Japanese tea house, tour of traditional Japanese garden. The staff dresses traditionally as well. Tea ceremonies are only once per month, last year on Mondays. If no tea ceremony is scheduled you simply tour the tea house and have the ceremony explained to you. (602)534-2406 info. (602) 262-6412 reservation line; $3 per person

The Life & Times of Laura Ingalls Wilder @ Pioneer AZ Living History Museum
Pioneer Exit off I-17---New River
All day workshop where kids pretend they lived in pioneer times. The setting is a renovated old west town. Most of the lessons take place in the school house. Some kids dress up in period clothes and bring their lunch in a box or tin pail. Learn the Virginia Reel, history of the time, how to make yarn dolls, rope, candles, churning cream into butter, and pioneer games. Watch a gun fight, see a medicine show, watch a blacksmith make things. Minimum of 10 students, age 6 & up. Sharon Cullers-(623) 937-1256 $15/student for the day; Parents/sibling entrance rate to Pioneer Village is $5.75 for parents & kids 7 & up. 6 & under are free.

McCormick Ranch Railroad Park & Museum
7301 E. Indian Bend Rd. Take Scottsdale Rd. to Indian Bend, turn left, you will see the park. Train and carousel ride, western playground and sand playground. Tour the original Pullman train and museum. Food available from 2 snackbars or bring lunch. 480-312-2312 Discounted to 60 cents per mini-train ride for school groups; No cost if not riding.

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Last Updated: Feb. 4, 2001