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Pacific Coast Air Museum

Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in California
Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in CaliforniaBrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in California
BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in California
BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in California
BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in California
BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0
Pacific Coast Air Museum, a museum in California
BrokenSphere · CC BY-SA 3.0

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Pacific Coast Air Museum is a museum in California, at a modelled elevation of 37 m. Mount Saint Helena stands 1,319 m to the northeast, 14 miles off. The nearest named place is Acorn Park, a park 1.6 miles away.

About

The story

The Pacific Coast Air Museum is an aviation museum located at Charles M. Schulz–Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, California. The museum displays a varied collection of over 30 American military, propeller, and jet aircraft.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Dates from 1989.

Wikidata Q7122353, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Step-free access
Yes

Official site

Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates38.50734, -122.80133
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Acorn Park: 1.6 mi
  • Mitchell Park: 1.6 mi
  • Esposti Park: 1.8 mi
  • Vintage Oaks Park: 1.8 mi
  • Quail Run Park: 2.0 mi
Artworks
Peaks
Historic sites: 46
  • Cross: 3.6 mi
  • Americas Best Value Inn & Suites - Wine Country: 4.1 mi
  • Hilton Sonoma Wine Country Ruins: 4.5 mi
  • Fountaingrove Inn Ruins: 4.5 mi
  • Round Barn Ruins: 4.6 mi
Attractions: 41
Gardens: 34
  • Robbin Food Forest: 2.0 mi
  • Rosary Garden: 3.5 mi
  • May Garden: 4.0 mi
  • Barnhart Garden: 5.6 mi
  • Native Plants Garden: 5.6 mi
Beaches: 32
Museums: 27
Nature reserves: 21
Picnic sites: 10
  • Oak Savanna Group Picnic Area: 7.4 mi
  • Birthday Party Area: 8.2 mi
  • Lawson Picnic Area: 12.7 mi
  • Campo Gianni: 12.7 mi
  • Creekside Picnic Area: 14.6 mi
Cliffs: 7
Springs: 5
  • Hunter Spring: 10.6 mi
  • Rattlesnake Spring: 16.1 mi
  • Skaggs Springs: 17.6 mi
  • Gravelly Spring: 18.7 mi
  • Johnny Brown Springs: 24.6 mi
Natural arches: 2
  • Hole in the Rock: 14.3 mi
  • Arched Rock: 18.3 mi
Waterfalls: 2
  • Sonoma Creek Falls: 15.7 mi
  • Linda Falls: 19.7 mi
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 16.0 miles of Pacific Coast Air Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mount Saint HelenaNE 39°1,319 m14.4 mi
Mount Saint Helena South PeakNE 44°1,220 m14.4 mi
Goat Roost RockNE 35°984 m14.8 mi
Mount HoodESE 104°833 m13.8 mi
Schoolhouse PointNNE 33°804 m14.9 mi
Red HillN 9°768 m15.5 mi
Table RockNE 52°722 m15.2 mi
Diamond MountainE 79°716 m11.9 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1518:4819:23
June solstice05:4820:0020:39
September equinox07:0018:3519:10
December solstice07:2616:1316:54

Local time (America/Los_Angeles).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F485153566166686867615347
Precip in6.76.74.62.11.30.30.00.00.11.63.66.8

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Santa Rosa Sonoma CO AP, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/1288814766

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