Welcome to this companion site to the AMARC Experience web site. Being so near to AMARC, the Pima Air & Space Museum has many aircraft that had previously been stored at the base and this is the primary reason the museum exists at this location. No visit to Tucson by those interested in aviation would be complete without spending a few hours wandering around the 150 acres that the museum now covers. Pima Air & Space is the largest privately run aviation museum in the US. Opened to the public on the 8th May 1976 with 35 aircraft it is now exhibitting around 200 aircraft and has numerous other static exhibitions covering a wide range of subjects.    Pima received a famous aircraft in December 2004, the NASA 'Vomit Comet' which was regularly used in the training of astronauts preparing them for weightlessness. The 'Vomit Comet' name, unsuprisingly, comes from the fact that a number of the trainee astronauts surcome to sickness during their first flights. Every trainee is issued a sick bag just in case! The converted Boeing KC-135 was retired from service on the 29th October 2004 after its last flight which lasted for almost three hours and made 50 of the steep climbs and dives it used to achieve between 20 and 30 seconds of weightlessness at a time. Their were originally two KC-135s operating this role, the other example, which was used in the "Apollo 13" movie starring Tom Hanks, was retired in 2000. This aircraft is being replaced by a Douglas C-9 in 2005. Picture © 2004 Philip Michaels Picture Gallery    N931NA Boeing KC-135    Flight Profile Diagram The seen to the left is the view that greets your arrival at Pima Air & Space museum so I thought it was only right for it to welcome you to this site. Hopefully your visit here will give you a flavour of what this uperb museum has to offer. Make sure you pay it a visit when you are in the area. Aerial Photographs See the museum how it looks from the air, click one of the links below for an aerial picture. If you are going on an AMARC overflight it is well worth doing a bit of a detour to get pictures of this excellent museum. Main museum area    including the fighters and hangars Bombers, Transport and Restoration areas