Save The Museum
Save the Museum – Updates and News
Stay tuned to this page as we will be adding news and press releases, and information on the proposed move to Great Park in Irvine, CA and how you can help save the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum.
Click Here to learn great news about the proposed move of the museum to Great Park in Irvine, CA.
To share your stories and let your representatives know why the museum is important to you, the community and the nation please go to this page.
Museum Hours:
Closed until further notice.
Free Admission and Parking
Free Events & Exhibits
Family Friendly
Location
9400 Activity Road, Suite C,
San Diego, CA 92126
Phone: 858-693-1723
Events- Exhibits
- Picnic with a Pilot - Events
- Open Cockpit Days - Events
- Military Working Dogs Events
- Military Art- NASA Logos-Exhibit
-Student Art-Exhibit
Displays
Explore the Marine aircraft and artifacts at our family friendly museum.
We look forward to sharing our love of USMC Aviation history with you.
Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation – Online Aviation Museum
Latest from the Blog
2021 Student Awards Ceremony
In this special episode of “The Inside Loop”, we interview our third-place winner of the 2021 middle school essay contest: Chloe Mullen, Grade 6, from The Nativity School in Rancho Santa Fe. Chloe wrote about her hero, her grandfather, an Air Force veteran who has lived a life of service and integrity she aspires to emulate.
Why didn’t Marines include the A-10 Thunderbolt II into its Aviation Assets?
One of the fundamental components of Marine Corps aviation is “close air support” for ground operations. Given that fact, why did the Marines decide not to incorporate the A-10 Thunderbolt II into its aviation assets? That decision is the focus of today’s podcast....
How Jet Engines Work
Today’s question is “How do jet engines work?”.
For an answer to that question we welcome back Lt. Colonel Joe Bassi, Ph.D., (USAF, Ret.) to “The Inside Loop” Podcast.
John Glenn’s “Project Bullet” F8U Crusader
John Glenn became a national hero by setting a new transcontinental airspeed record on July 17, 1957…sixty-four years ago this week. Although Glenn’s accomplishments as a Marine aviator, astronaut and senator are well documented, little is known about the subsequent history of the Crusader flown on that record-setting flight in 1957.
In today’s podcast we explore the rest of the Crusader’s story.
Art Contest Winners 2020-2021
Winners of the 2020-2021 “Marines in Flight” Art Contest have been announced by the Flying Leatherneck Historical Foundation.
Notable Flying Leathernecks: Charles “Sly” Magill
Charles “Sly” Magill scored the last recorded air-to-air victory by a U.S. Marine Corps pilot on January 17,1991.
