Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum
Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum is a museum in Mississippi, at a modelled elevation of 15 m. Great Sand Hill stands 1 m to the south, 10 miles off. The nearest named place is TrainTastic, a museum 0.2 miles away. River Road Scenic Byway passes 66 miles off.
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The story
The Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum is an aviation museum in Gulfport, Mississippi.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Wikidata Q124077722, matched on coordinates and name (21 m apart).
How to reach it
- 66.3 mi off the River Road Scenic Byway, National
- 16.5 mi off the Beach Boulevard Scenic Byway
- 23.3 mi off the NASA Scenic Byway to Space
Named places within 25 miles
- Herbert Wilson Recreation Center: 0.5 mi
- Cowan Road Field: 2.0 mi
- Brighton Place Park: 2.2 mi
- Gaston Hewes Recreation Center: 2.4 mi
- Jones Memorial Park: 2.5 mi
- Hurricane Camille Memorial: 3.7 mi
- Friendship Oak: 5.3 mi
- Long Beach WWII Memorial: 6.1 mi
- Harper-McCaughan Elementary School (historical): 6.1 mi
- Long Beach Schools: 6.2 mi
- TrainTastic: 0.2 mi
- City of Biloxi Center For Ceramics: 11.1 mi
- Pleasant Reed Interpretive Center: 11.1 mi
- Maritime and Seafood Industry Museuem: 11.9 mi
- Waveland Civic Center and Ground Zero Museum: 20.2 mi
- Astronaut Fred Haise, Biloxian: 9.4 mi
- Ocean Springs Mosiac Wall: 13.0 mi
- Crooked Feather: 13.4 mi
- D'Iberville statue: 13.7 mi
- Red Bluff: 11.9 mi
- Northwest Bluff: 14.7 mi
- Red Bluff: 17.0 mi
- Land Trust of Mississippi Coastal Plain Weeks Bayou Site: 14.5 mi
- Cedar Point Site: 16.7 mi
- Marine Education Center: 16.8 mi
- Ship Island Excursions: 2.6 mi
- World’s “Largest Rocker”: 6.5 mi
- Butterfly Garden: 13.8 mi
- Blossman Memorial: 14.2 mi
- Clermont Harbor Beach: 23.2 mi
- Lakeshore Beach: 24.0 mi
- Great Sand Hill: 10.3 mi
- Picnic Area: 24.4 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Great Sand Hill | S 184° | 1 m | 10.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:01 | 18:36 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:55 | 19:27 | 20:02 |
| September equinox | 06:45 | 18:23 | 18:54 |
| December solstice | 06:50 | 16:24 | 17:01 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Sep–May.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 52 | 56 | 61 | 68 | 75 | 81 | 83 | 83 | 79 | 70 | 60 | 54 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.4 | 5.2 | 5.5 | 4.7 | 6.9 | 7.2 | 6.5 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.5 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Gulfport - Biloxi AP, 2 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap element way/166088509
Day trips start here
- Gulfport · 1 mi
- Biloxi · 8 mi
- D'Iberville · 10 mi
- Ocean Springs · 16 mi
- Bay St. Louis · 18 mi
- Waveland · 21 mi
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