Phone: 303.360.5360 Onsite Tours and Programs
Educational Programs
Wings Aviation Science Program
Summer Camp at Wings
For Scouts
KidSpace
Speakers Bureau
Students and other groups take tours of our historical Museum guided by one of our knowledgeable and entertaining volunteers. Time in our flight simulator lab and the opportunity to assemble balsa airplanes can be added to the tour for additional fun and learning.
Onsite Programs:
Aviation Exploration: A tour guide accompanies the children and explains aircraft controls, forces of flight, and some history at the appropriate age level. The tour includes an opportunity for the children to sit in selected cockpits! (K-Adult, 1 hour)
Flight Adventure: The children take an Aviation Exploration tour and then are trained on flight simulators applying the knowledge they have learned. Tour guides assist children on the simulators showing them how to use the controls before flying. (3rd-Adult, 1.5hrs)
Flight Engineer: The children take an Aviation Exploration tour and then assemble gliders. The flight of these aircraft test the knowledge they have gained from their tour experience. (K-12th, 1.5 hours)
Aviation Adventure: Our all inclusive tour of Aviation Exploration, Flight Adventure, and Flight Engineer. (3rd-12th, 2 hours)
Top Gun for Tots: For Pre-K students. Any group with 10 or more children in this age range may sign-up for this program designed to bring aviation imagination alive! Top Gun for Tots allows children who would not ordinarily have up-close access to real planes the chance to experience the massive size and wide variety of real planes and many other captivating experiences. The teachers or group leaders provide a self-guided, self paced tour through the fantastic assembly of planes and dioramas presen
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in our museum. Our Top Gun for Tots also allows them some special additional time in our Kids’ Space area where many hands-on activities are geared for the pre-kindergarten ages and stages. As a final topper for this program we will escort the children into a cockpit and teachers or group leaders who bring cameras may take a photo of each individual child as a pilot – great for classroom decorations or as gifts for children to give to their parents/guardians!
Project Pilot Class: The project pilot class consists of three phases. The first phase is a classroom session where aviation, navigation, and geography fundamentals are introduced followed by the preparation of a flight plan. In the second phase, students are trained how to operate the simulators, learning about the instrument panel as well as basic control of an aircraft. In the final phase the students fly the mission in the simulator lab from the classroom flight plan lesson. (6th-Adult, 3 hours)
Customized Educational Programs: We can mix up the fun by customizing a program for you and your group. For more details please contact the Education Department.
For information on our group tour policy click here.
For youth registration form with prices and descriptions click here.
For adult programs and prices click here.
For Group tours and Educational Programming contact Wings Education at 303.360.5360 x116 or ksmith@wingsmuseum.org
