Took my boys here for a weekend adventure. What a COS secret gem! As former USMC aircrew & civil propeller repairman I ate it up. My boys are currently studying about WW1 & 2 and there was tons of info in that realm. The restoration hanger was beyond cool. My personal favorite was the sea planes! Staff were very knowledgeable & I highly recommend striking up a conversation with some of the vet volunteers. What a great place.

Great museum, one of my favorites! I even bought a few books in the gift shop! I highly recommend going here! They have such a wide variety of exhibits!

One of the better aviation museums I have ever been to. What makes this place unique is that all of their planes are operational. Nicely displayed and very well maintained. All staff are volunteers and are not only pleasant but very passionate and informed. Due to covid they did have arrows to follow, but it took you through the war chronologically. Amazing artifacts on display as well. Highlights for us were the P38 and a plane that was actually in the Doolittle raid. Really great museum!

One of the most impressive military museums we have ever visited across the globe. Every docent was incredibly friendly, engaging and knowledgeable. An experience not to be missed. Oh yeah, every plane in the museum still flys, and you get to see their current restoration plane in progress. Please support their efforts and this museum, visit today!

Copious info on WWI and WWII. Largest fleet of restored and airworthy WWII aircraft. Really interesting views of restorations in progress. Many unique aircraft. Enthusiastically friendly volunteer guides.

Fun photography day today. They moved several planes out onto the tarmac. They even had forklifts and stairs to give you a better vantage point for pictures.

One of the best museums Ive seen to date. Set up very well, the tour path starts with a synopsis of the First world war then a great timeline of the Second world war. The planes are spectacular! All are kept in flying order by the WestPac company, which has its shop right across from the museum! A tour of the shop is included with the ticket. The volunteers must be included in my review as they are passionate about the museum and very knowledgeable when questioned about most anything in the place. I would like to recommend Ted and Rod, thanks for all the info! This is a MUST on any visit to Colorado Springs.

We liked this place a lot. There are a lot of things to see, staff is friendly and helpful. They have shop where planes are being restored. Recommended.

Very cool place with historically significant aircraft exhibits. The volunteer staff were friendly, helpful, and very knowledgeable. I could have easily spent most of the day there.

This is an amazing museum! The trip through late WWI thru WWII is very through and detailed. The highlights of individual pilots, was so special. I recommend this to everyone who enjoys our history.

How can I really put this place into words? I absolutely loved this Museum one of my favorite yet. Youd have to spend at least two days just to see everything they have to offer. Very underrated compared to other museums. So many historic planes and items from the brave men and women who gave there all to fight for there country. Once you get a chance to see everything stop by the gift shop where you can bring home original artifacts from the planes and meany other great pieces of history that will look wonderful in your room or office. They dont have near as much funding as I believe they should have so if you can drop a few dollars in the donation container it will help them preserve even more history of those who gave there all for us! Thank you

Beautifully restored pieces of history. Awesome place.

Rich source of history, and the fact that all the planes there are functioning just goes to show you how important everything is to them.Everyone there was very kind and they very much want to be asked questions. Living history.

Wonderful! Really a very nice experience! Took a few grandchildren. They found it fascinating. It was my second time going. I enjoyed it immensely!

I had no idea this place was here in the Springs. Spent 3+ hours looking at all the well maintenance exhibits.

Up close and personal with beautiful planes. Great walkthrough of significant episodes of WWII. Tons memoriabilia, medals, letters, photos. Very knowledgeable docents. You could spend days here and never learn it all. I loved it. I will be back.

Wow. What an amazing collection of flyable aircraft. Truly amazing. The staff was also super friendly, knowledgeable, and outgoing.Definitely recommend!

I’ve been to a lot of warbird museums and this is hands-down THE BEST one I’ve ever been to. So many rare STILL flying birds everywhere you look. Docent Johnny was amazing. I was so excited to discover that many of the flights I watched at our Pikes Peak Air Show this Fall were these very planes!! It’s so incredibly special to have these National treasures so well-loved (they have a restorations facility on-site) and on display. I can’t wait to go back again and again!

Excellent museum. History at its best. Everyone very helpful on knowledge of the aircraft on display. Recommend all to visit this museum.

Really great museum to WWII and the aviation history of it. My 8 year old who loves war history was amazed at all the old stuff. Loved seeing the planes hes seen in movies like Midway and others. We even got to see a C-17 and couple F-16s take off from nearby Peterson AFB.

Highly recommend it! Great picture back into history.

Great place to learn history of the men and women who fought and died for our freedom. The staff was very friendly and informative.

This is a great place to take the family or visiting relatives. Especially if they like aviation history. A lot to see and a piece of our history. Highly recommend.

This place is a must see for anyone interested in aviation or WW2. The staff are very nice and explain really interesting things about the exhibits.

This place really is a gem in the Colorado Springs area. I really enjoyed all of the exhibits and the staff was great. I will be returning.

Excellent WW II aircraft and history to view and explore! All guides are retired military personnel with personal knowledge of the war and the aircraft. Tour of company that restores and maintains the aircraft was amazing! Highly recommend!

Informative and absolutely amazing!! I enjoyed the tour and the presenters are just incredible. Friendly staff and unique aircrafts from more than 70 years ago!! FANTASTIC!!

An excellent museum experience with exceptional, friendly volunteers and staff. Providing a wonderful service in the preservation of WWIi aviation. Highly recommended

Very good experience crew very knowledgeable and friendly.. From the start to end.. Great place to visit

This is a fantastically cool place! How could anyone listening to these stories not be awesome and humbled! The personal stories of the part these planes played in our history, the photos, its all so important and makes me so proud. No question I asked was laughed at, but answered thoroughly. I am so proud to have this Museum in my own City. They are doing great things!!

I see alot of personal pride with the volunteers showing off their hangers and workshops. Very clean and nicely maintained. Well worth the money.A must for any history buff

All aircraft are airworthy. Fantastic history displays and knowledgeable docents. Adjacent WestPAC restorations visit was wonderful.

I was late for the tour today and had to schedule a return visit, but the people were super cool and still let me take a peek at some planes while there. Ill be back now that I know where it is.

So cool! All the planes are in flying order and the historical artifacts are incredible! Bunches of planes and a chance to look at restoration in action.

Great museum the personnel there was very helpful very informative and knowledgeable I would highly recommend this Museum

Really well ran and maintained local museum. Lots of knowledgeable volunteers, good docents, mazing exhibits. They also do a lot of work with uccs, and have some very cool projects going. They work with wolfpack to restore planes, and offer a glimpse into that world. If you want a good local museum look no further.

This was the best day that my mother has had in a long time I would like to thank Walter he was our tour guide when my mother had fallen and he was right there to help and do everything he possibly could I want to thank you very much

No matter where you are coming from,you should definitely visit this museum. We participated in the 2 hour guided tour and it was worth the time. Museum is definitely amazing but the volunteers are the heart of soul. The quality of the displays is second to none. Priced reasonably but very informative !! And do NOT forget to take pictures. Its a must visit for anyone who loves WWII history.

The National Museum of WWII Aviation is one of those hidden gems that should be high on the list of everyone visiting Colorado Springs. For those of you that live here in the Springs, you should bring all of your out of town visitors. If you homeschool, this is a great field trip.Great WWII airplanes with tons of supporting displays. Be sure to do the 2-hour guided tour with one of the volunteer docents. If you pay online ahead of time, youll save a couple bucks.Most of the planes (like the P-38, B-25, and more) are fully restored and are still flown.

One of the best aviation museum I’ve been to. Staff are very welcoming and the admission fee is $12 which includes a guided tour with ex navy, pilots and World War II heroes. It was so immersive and each aircraft has a story behind it. Also the flight simulator was fun. I highly recommend this place for all age groups as we will be part of history.

We had an absolutely wonderful time here, I would recommend the docent tour. This is a fascinating and tragic piece of history that this museum could not have done a better job educating on! Can’t wait for there huge expansion to be done so we can return to see and support these amazing pieces of history.

Due to COVID they give you a map and theres arrows on the floor leading you through the museum. Its nice very informational, especially if you take the time to speak to the employees on the floor ! They are really nice to talk to ! And the gift shop in the front is adorable

What a great attraction that is a bit tucked away, but amazing and expanding. Worth the trip to see some wonderful exhibits and pieces of WWII history. I will return once the expansion is completed to see additional aircraft.

Definitely worth a visit. The volunteers are helpful, enthusiastic and very knowledgeable.

I could have spent the whole day here! WWII buffs will love it. Not just planes, but real pieces of history come to life here. Great exhibits with true authenticity.

Love this place! Great planes the men and women working here know the history and stories behind each plane

Absolutely magical. If youre into WWII aviation this is the best museum in the region!

Pretty cool experience, I feel like they could stand to update or put more work into their displays but that is solely an opinion. 15 bucks for adults and 10 per kid. Little high to look at all of 5 planes.

Love this museum, excellent layout and lots of restored planes, most of which saw combat during WWII. Cant wait for Covid to be over so they can go back to giving tours which are super informative and fun to listen to.

Very interesting exhibits and the staff was very helpful and knowledgeable.

Awesome experience! Will come back anytime I am in town.

Had so much fun visiting the museum. Gene was our tour guide & did a fantastic job. We visited from Houston Tx. on Jan. 2020

A great museum, you are able to stand NEXT to those aircraft that you have read about. If you take one thing from this review, go and take the guided tour. The guide makes the experience.

Very great collection of planes and accurate information.

Fantastic! Amazingly knowledgeable tour leader. 16 yr old granddaughter suggested it and was also well entertained. Would definitely go back.

They got huge collections of restored aircrafts and my mind was blown with the artifacts that they have presented.

Another excellent museum whit WW II plains guide tour by veterans and they got a P-38 lighting and B 25 Mitchell

Wonderfully restored aircraft! Very nice staff!!

If you’re into history and WWII in particular, you have to pay this place a visit. Be careful they’re only open Friday to Sunday. No weekdays.

Very informative. Great history lessons.

Theres lots of stuff in this museum and the docents are extremely knowledgable. My daughter especially loved the flight simulator.

Hands down this is one of the best such facilities you will find. Very well organized, staffed, and maintained.Highly informative for amateur enthusiast and historian alike. My first steps into the hanger area were a full stopped Wow!

Housed here are some of the tools that enabled this country to beat the enemies of the world in WW2. These are truly great pieces of American technology and history!

Excellent display of actual flight-worthy aircraft.

Amazing collection of flight-ready WWII aircraft!

I was here years ago, and the expansion of the facility, airplanes, and displays are awesome.

Awesome place! Do the docent tour! Its the same price as just walking through. We learned all kinds of things and they even have a few demonstrations. We spent about three hours there total. My son even tried out the flight simulator. Highly recommended!

Excellent museum. Friendly and helpful Docents!

This was an amazing place to visit! The interactive tours were incredible, the staff was helpful and friendly, the food at the restaurant was good, and my family really enjoyed it there as well.The tribute the museum pays to the Army, and the military as a whole, was outstanding. I will definitely be returning in the future.

Awesome museum. Les was a great tour guide; very knowledgeable and passionate (and patient with the kids). Worth going just to see the restored planes, but the tour brings the planes and history to life.

Amazing, clean, friendly and priced right!The restoration part of the tour is so cool. My tour guide Tim was knowledgeable and very professional. The unique items in the gift shop are made from non restorable aircraft parts & original art.

Bery interdsting and resourceful! Great family place!

Our friend John Schall was Docent and led the tour. We Learned so much,

So much more than a museum and I cannot recommend it enough! You get to see the planes being worked on and restored before your eyes instead of behind the scenes. Then see the completed planes perfectly restored to the exact standards as when they were originally built is incredible. The wealth of knowledge and experience of the workers and volunteers was an added bonus for me as a museum junky. If you have any passion for history or planes or even mechanics this place has it all and is a must see. I will he coming back.

The tour and the exhibits feel one of a kind. It’s worth the price - stop in and spend a couple hours learning!

Amazing work on restoring aviation treasures.

Many WWII era planes are on display. Some of these aircraft flew on D-Day. This museum provides much more than a lesson in history... it is preserving the memories of a very important era in world history and pays tribute to the sacrifices endured by those who served in the greatest generation.

Brings history to life.

My husband and I are both history geeks. Having both been in the military as well as having fathers who served during WII. We are very interested in that era. We thoroughly enjoyed getting up close and personal with the planes and displays. We easily could have spent a lot more time looking at the displays but since it was a guided tour we werent able to. I would definitely go back again.

Was there in October from Ireland...Great museum, great tour guides and terrific exibits...one of the best museums Ive ever been in...Ill be back next year.....

If youre a WW history buff this is an absolute must see exhibit.

Great way to spend an afternoon, tons of great information, great guides, didn’t ever visit when I lived here and was glad I got to come back and see this place

There was a p 38 lightning and occasionally they are said to have a b17 in and out i didnt get to see it but im just going off what the people said but over all it was a great experience.

Cannot recommend this place enough. My husband and I love WWII history and aviation, so finding this museum was like finding gold. We opted for the tour and I’m so glad we did. Our docent, Les, was incredibly intelligent and well versed and was just so patient with all of the questions I asked him. We can’t wait to return for one of their air shows!

Absolutely one of the best aviation museums. If you have time for a tour, have Don take you.

This was a great tour with some truly amazing aircraft in pristine condition. This is well worth a visit when you are in Colorado Springs. I Love history and the guide had so many stories to tell !

This place was great! There were a bunch of world war 2 planes (all in good condition), and the staff was super friendly and nice.

Great place filled with vast knowledge and beautiful aircraft

A great museum, lots of restored WW2 aircraft and displays. Very friendly and informative staff too.

Fascinating tour. Compelling displays. John Lynch is a wonderful storyteller. Knowledgeable, enthusiastic and well spoken.

I took one of my grandsons on 12/7. We were both like kids on a candy store plus we both learned a lot. The docents were amazing and so informative. I plan to buy a Membership so I can take my other grandsons.

I really enjoyed this tour. We first got a briefing on the history of WWII. Then we walked through different hangars where people are restoring planes, not just to look beautiful, but so they can fly again. Each plane has its own interesting stories. They have a new hangar and event center opening soon - cant wait to see it!

Great and informative place. Bob was an excellent guide. Definitely will come back!

The guided tour was awesome. Veteran guide knew everything, about the pilots, history of each of the planes he was discussing, where it was salvaged from and who loaned it to the museum. Awe also toured the hanger where there was work being done on these pieces of our history. This place is privately funded, unbelievable!

Absolutely AMAZING!!! You get to stand next to the very aircraft that flew during WWII. The level of care taken by this group to restore and display the aircraft is impressive. The workers were all extremely nice and went out of their way to make your experience special. The chronological tour is very neat as well, giving all sorts of information on the timeline of events. If you get a chance to go - GO!!

Volunteers were great and answered all the kids questions. A great collection of working aircraft.

Its a great museum the planes and the exhibits.The staff was very knowledgeable.

Good place take the grandson

As good as it gets!

Tour guide Dave S. was absolutely wonderful! As someone who didnt come into this with a specific interest, here was very informative and entertaining! Great speaker and very engaging! The museum was very large with all stages of aircrafts, most flyable and some under repair. Great place to visit even if you dont think youre interested!!! Tour was well worth the time!! Flight simulator operable for kids as well!