USS Midway and the San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum

Features:

	Audio tour with every admission
	Virtual reality flight simulations
	Midway features more than 35 exhibits that bring the magic of naval aviation to life.

Located downtown in San Diego at Navy Pier, Midway provides a dynamic and enriching experience "from boiler to bridge". A visit to Midway instills a greater appreciation for courage, freedom, and service to country.

Every museum admission includes an entertaining, self-guided audio tour as visitors navigate their way around the ship to more than 35 exhibits and nearly 2 dozen restored aircraft

The San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum aboard the USS Midway has become a crown jewel of downtown San Diego's revitalized waterfront and appeals to a wide audience. It is also a popular venue for special events, in the heart of San Diego Bay.

Midway's air wing is constantly expanding. Every few months, meticulously restored planes are brought aboard and added to the self-guided audio tour. The museum's current inventory includes nearly two dozen aircraft with more on the way.

The naval aviation museum showcases the unique history of the Midway, an aircraft carrier that routinely set new standards of naval aviation.

Answering the Call for 47 Years
"Midway Magic" is a historical fact. It was a term known throughout the Navy as the USS Midway steamed through a 47-year career of service to country. Imagine a carrier that was commissioned in 1945 and served as a flagship in Desert Storm in 1991. No other carrier served as long as the USS Midway.

Time and again Midway remained on station when other carriers broke down and headed for port. It was almost magical how the crew and carrier responded to every call - both military and humanitarian.

The USS Midway set new standards of naval aviation in the latter half of the 20th century. A captured German V-2 rocket was launched off the USS Midway in 1946 - the dawn of naval missile warfare. The USS Midway blazed new trails of sub-Arctic air operations off the coast of Greenland. It was the first carrier homeported in a foreign country, calling Yokosuka, Japan home for 18 years. When others came home, the USS Midway remained at the "tip of the sword" on an odyssey shared by 225,000 Americans that spanned the surrender of Japan in WWII, the Cold War, Vietnam, the era of détente and Desert Storm.

No other carrier carries such a proud (many say "magical") tradition of diligence, vigilance and mission completion. Midway Magic was real. And it continues today on her final mission as an interactive museum, tribute and education center.