Tours and Activities

If you are planning to visit the museum with a group, the museum offers a variety of educational opportunities. Based on the group's time and age, these include tours of the museum and build-fly-take projects.

Please call or email to schedule guided tours: (765) 287-1256, ext. 511, historyprogram @ modelaircraft.org. Visits that are self-guided (without a docent guiding a tour) do not need to be booked. Guided tours (tours with a docent) must be booked with at least 24-hours’ notice. Due to our increasingly busy tour schedule, as much advance notice as possible is recommended. Summer months are especially busy.

Basic Group Tours: $2.00 per adult, $1.00 per child (17 & under) - Tour are scheduled for group of 10 or more people. If your tour goup has less than 10 persons, you will be charged the minimum amount for 10 persons ($20 adult tours, $10 child tours).  Tours can focus on one of the following: general modeling introduction, history of model and full-scale aviation, the science of aviation, or an in-depth history of models and modeling.  If there is something specific you are looking for, please note that when scheduling the tour.  If you do not say what type of tour you are interested in when booking the tour, you will receive the general modeling introduction tour.

Basic Group Tours with Optional Activities: Each of the following fees include a tour of the museum.

FPG-9

$4.50 per child/ $5.50 per adult.
Styrofoam plate glider.
Teaches basic construction and trimming techniques for flight.
This activity is appropriate for children ages 4 to 8.

Sky Streaks
$6.50 per child/$7.50 per adult.
Balsa rubber-powered model.
Teaches basic balsa wood construction and trimming techniques for flight.
This activity is appropriate for children ages 9 and older.. 

Scavenger Hunt
No extra cost.
Allows children a chance to improve their observational skill and explore the Museum, looking for objects on exhibit.

This activity can be done by 7 and above.

**The AMA Education Department section of the website contains more aviation education information.