Air Zoo
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Air Zoo is a museum in Michigan, at a modelled elevation of 264 m. Bald Hill stands 334 m to the southwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is Flight Innovation Center, a museum 0.2 miles away. 5 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Air Zoo, founded as the Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum, is an aviation museum and indoor amusement park next to the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek International Airport in Portage, Michigan. The Air Zoo holds many historical and rare aircraft, including the world's fastest air-breathing aircraft, the SR-71B Blackbird. Many of its antique planes are airworthy. Among its other attractions are a 180-degree theater that projects a simulation of a B-17 bombing mission during World War II; and various amusement rides, including flight simulators of a rocket trip to Mars, a U.S. Navy (former Blue Angel) F/A-18 Hornet, a stunt biplane, a hot air balloon, a U.S. Navy F-14A Tomcat that served aboard USS America, and more. Air Zoo is a Smithsonian Affiliate.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 1977.
Wikidata Q1721935, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Operated by
- Kalamazoo Aviation History Museum
- Fee
- Yes
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Lexington Green Park: 1.1 mi
- Portage Creek Bicentennial Park - Milham Entrance: 1.2 mi
- Milham Park: 1.5 mi
- Portage Creek Bicentennial Park - North Trailhead: 1.5 mi
- Millennium Park: 2.1 mi
- Bishop's Bog Preserve: 4.1 mi
- Eliason Nature Reserve: 4.9 mi
- Brewer Woods Nature Sanctuary: 5.3 mi
- West Douglas Neighborhood Park: 5.6 mi
- KEKA Preserve: 6.0 mi
- Celery Flats Interpretive Center: 2.0 mi
- Kalamazoo Mall: 4.4 mi
- South Street: 4.5 mi
- Year Round Golf: 7.9 mi
- Leo J. Burch Park: 8.9 mi
- Flight Innovation Center: 0.2 mi
- Kalamazoo Valley Community College Center for New Media Art Museum: 4.6 mi
- Kalamazoo Valley Museum: 4.7 mi
- Vicksburg Historical Society: 7.4 mi
- Overlook Museum: 14.3 mi
- Giraffa Camelopardalis: 3.3 mi
- Untitled: 4.4 mi
- Bird Effigy: 4.6 mi
- Oranges: 4.6 mi
- The Professor: 4.8 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 2.5 mi
- The Upjohn Company: 4.5 mi
- Art Deco: 4.5 mi
- Burdick Street: 4.5 mi
- Rose Park Veteran's Memorial: 4.6 mi
- Bell's Beer Garden: 4.7 mi
- God's Garden: 4.8 mi
- Community Garden: 20.7 mi
- People's Plot: 20.8 mi
- People's Plot: 20.8 mi
- Prospect Hill: 17.3 mi
- The Hogback: 18.9 mi
- Colon Mountain: 21.8 mi
- Mount Misery: 22.2 mi
- Bald Hill: 23.7 mi
- Galesburg Rest Area: 6.4 mi
- Alamo Rest Area 709: 10.2 mi
- Battle Creek Rest Area: 17.3 mi
- Willard Beach: 18.2 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Air Zoo. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bald Hill | SW 216° | 334 m | 23.7 mi |
| Mount Misery | SSW 211° | 317 m | 22.2 mi |
| Colon Mountain | SSE 154° | 287 m | 21.8 mi |
| The Hogback | NNE 25° | 282 m | 18.9 mi |
| Prospect Hill | W 263° | 244 m | 17.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:46 | 19:18 | 19:55 |
| June solstice | 06:07 | 20:40 | 21:23 |
| September equinox | 07:30 | 19:04 | 19:41 |
| December solstice | 08:08 | 16:28 | 17:14 |
Local time (America/Detroit).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 25 | 27 | 37 | 49 | 60 | 69 | 73 | 71 | 63 | 52 | 40 | 30 |
| Precip in | 1.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 | 3.1 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.3 | 3.7 | 2.5 | 1.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Kalamazoo Battle Creek Intl AP, under a mile away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/1286859246
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