Natl Naval Aviation Museum

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Fri Sep 02, 2022 2:11 pm

When will the average Joe and his family get to visit the Natl Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida again, if ever? Access to the museum has been limited to Dept of Defense ID cardholders for several years now apparently because of the most recent terrorist type attack there. Thanks.

quemerford · **Joined:** Tue Jun 17, 2014 4:19 pm **Posts:** 1657

Have you contacted them?

BK · **Joined:** Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:23 pm **Posts:** 595

Pat Carry wrote:

When will the average Joe and his family get to visit the Natl Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida again, if ever? Access to the museum has been limited to Dept of Defense ID cardholders for several years now apparently because of the most recent terrorist type attack there. Thanks.

There is a plan to build a public access road directly to the museum avoiding base entry but that would be several years away. https://www.pnj.com/story/news/military ... 104316002/

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Sat Sep 03, 2022 8:08 am

BK wrote:

Pat Carry wrote:

When will the average Joe and his family get to visit the Natl Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida again, if ever? Access to the museum has been limited to Dept of Defense ID cardholders for several years now apparently because of the most recent terrorist type attack there. Thanks.

There is a plan to build a public access road directly to the museum avoiding base entry but that would be several years away. https://www.pnj.com/story/news/military ... 104316002/

Interesting, thanks.

JohnB · **Posted:** Sun Sep 04, 2022 8:56 pm

Far be it for me to tell the Navy anything (in the service, I worked with...and for...some great Navy officers, I enjoyed the experience)...
But having limited access seems to show where aviation seems to stand with the admirals who control the budget.

A suggestion, I bet the Seabees could build a road in a weekend.

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2022 7:40 am

JohnB wrote:

Far be it for me to tell the Navy anything (in the service, I worked with...and for...some great Navy officers, I enjoyed the experience)...
But having limited access seems to show where aviation seems to stand with the admirals who control the budget.

A suggestion, I bet the Seabees could build a road in a weekend.

I'm sure they could!

lucky52 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 05, 2022 8:50 am

Pat,was the latest terrorist incident you referred to the one where the Saudi student undergoing flight training shot several other students on base or was there a later one?

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:53 am

lucky52 wrote:

Pat,was the latest terrorist incident you referred to the one where the Saudi student undergoing flight training shot several other students on base or was there a later one?

I'm not sure just which one it was. The one I'm thinking about was maybe 3 years ago.

lucky52 · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:05 pm

I researched it and you are correct,3 years ago in November.They stopped flight training until February of 2020 and told the foreign students they were not allowed to bring their guns on base anymore(for what that is worth).I thought there might have been another one I didn't hear about.

old iron · **Posted:** Tue Sep 06, 2022 8:15 pm

The gun incident at Pensacola, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Pensacola_shooting

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