It's a shame to see how this place has downsized, but at least it is still open.

LONG AGO THE SPANISH FLU HAD A IMPACT LIKE TODAY. Your vids are nice, stay safe and wish you well

Cool video if you ever get back to Michigan I should take you to the kallamzoo air zoo a very cool airplane museum.

Awesome old plane collection. My dad had a collection of pictures of old planes.👍😊💕

Flipping fabulous video brilliant thankyou soooooo much Tampa stay safe ❤🙏♥️

Thanks for the tour!

thank you for sharing, this is a great way to travel in 2021 :D

I live a stone's throw away from this place & yet have never visited. My friend used to b the Ops Director & had dinner with Harrison Ford when he was there. Very cool video!

Ah man I love vintage aircraft!! Very cool place!!

Nice video............ Looks like a cool place to go to. 👍👍👍👍👍

Thank you for showing us this. loved it and finding out about some cool old planes :)

👍🏻thanks for sharing!

What a great place to be the museum is fantastic and the aircraft that's just simply amazing to touch. They do have one of the largest collections of F4U corsairs and a Marauder b26.

all your museum visits are so choice!

Yo Jay, the black and yellow #4 reminds me of the one off the movie The Rocketeer. Love that movie!

Awesome video. Stay safe

Its fantastic seeing those old planes in such great condition! Most videos show these kind of planes wrecked in some body of water somewhere...

I'm planning on hitting this place hopefully this summer! I actually c=visited this museum when it was in South Florida Called Weeks Air Museum, before Hurricane Andrew caused so much damage Mr. Meeks moved it to its present location! Hopefully, you'll be back while He flies one of his planes! Great video! I do hope he opens up that old portion soon!

😳 Red Baron WOW 💥💯

I passed by there many times and finally stopped in back in 2012 or 13. I have always been interested in flight or at least since I sat and watched the monkeys go up in the rockets. I was amazed, i saw there rebuild shop that would excite any wood worker. They also had cutaways of different engines including very complex radial engines. The theater tour was open and was very cool with WWII sounds, equipment, battle and a bomber under repair in the field with manikins hanging partially out of the plane with his legs moving as if he was working on it. You actually walked through the entire scene with the sounds and visuals of the war as close as it could be replicated. Always planed to return but before I could they closed to the public. I'm glad to see they are at least partially open now and will make an effort to return.

Great Trip, Thx :-)

I enjoyed the video Jay. 🙂👍

This is cool. We have a few aircraft museums near us. But unfortunately there all closed at the moment. Love seeing the old planes.

I believe that seaplane that you didn't have access to is a PBY Catalina. I love looking at all those old birds. Even the aircraft I flew is now in a museum. I think those signs at the end were saying, "There's much ahead."

My niece is learning how to fly a plane all by herself and she is doing great. By the way, classic car alert. They have some great planes in this museum for sure. Have a great day.

What a brilliant place so jealous. We went to our plane museum my nephew layed on top of the plane with my brother inlaw in cockpit Daniel laying on the glass how Sue took photo it looked just like he was in the air holding on for dear life 😆also lucky to have Bovington tank museum near. There all closed at the minute just essential shopping.

There was something very Pixar about the way those cows and little bird all walked away from you. Also, I want a Fokker shirt.

Super cool Lovin it!

Awesome. Aviation museums are really interesting! So cool! Thanks buddy.

The one outside is a PBY Catalina, used in reconnaissance in the Pacific in WW2, Great video Dude!

Great footage and vlog!! Glad I found you! We are Florida KZfaqrs here. You gained a new subscriber in us! We might see you down the road!

Thanks for the Video.I was there many years ago. He had if I remember right a few simulators for flying. The deal you thought was a machine gun "Red cover" is a pitot tube used to measure speed in a aircraft.

Great blog TJ, being a pilot myself I was there in the 90s really enjoyed your tour. Things have change since my visit. A big thumbs up for you!

Very nice!

Wow, what a great place to visit! I like places like this.

Never knew you were such a "Aviation Enthusist" Jay! Excellent Video!!! :)

Great video man ! I love your pink panther shirt

As always Jay your videos are top notch thank you so much for sharing them with us.

I visited the "Fantasy of Flight" museum in December 2022. It is indeed a great collection of vintage and even reproduction aircraft such as their Gee-Bee racers. But to call it the "World's Greatest Vintage Collection" is perhaps a bit of a stretch. There are aviation museums throughout the world that have far larger collections of vintage aircraft. These include the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force at Dayton, OH, the U.S. Naval Air Museum at Pensacola, FL, the Polish Aviation Museum at Krakow, Poland and the Royal Air Force Museum in the United Kingdom.

We pass that all the time on the way to Busch Gardens...will def stop next time!

We weren't sure if it was still open or not! We will definitely stop by! Will you be at Sun N Fun this year (the air show separate from the museum)?

just awesome ! On the bucket list if I ever make it to Florida... my favorites right now are the Boeing Museum in Seattle and the San Diego Aerospace museum (although I was lucky enough to see it several times before the 1978 fire)

Morning TJ. Thanks for another great vlog, And congrat's on the over 23k subscribers. Love the Fantasy of Flight

The Cadillac looks like a 1938 sixty special.

Enjoyed your video. I went there in the 1990's and the other building housed a wonderful exhibit where you felt like you were in the trenches of WWI and then passed through a B-17 and other exhibits for WWII. Also there were flight simulators where you could dogfight each other. I went there several times with Civil Air Patrol Cadets in the 1990's and then around 2000 with my Mom, step-father and my son. We ate lunch at the snack bar there and it wasn't too bad. I wonder why they closed that area off? Kermit Weeks opened that museum when he relocated many of his planes from the Homestead area after several were damaged by Hurricane Andrew.

Thanks Jay...Fokker also allowed the guns to fire through the propeller arc with a special interupter gear... British aircraft had their guns mounted on the top wing, forcing the pilot to stand to fire at his enemies.

Your intro was hilarious and I made a video recently and mentioned you when I did my newest Pirate 🏴‍☠️ Matt congratulates Tampa Jay and Bay. I hope you will check it out sometime.

HEY, HEY, TAMPA JAY Really enjoyed this video yeah, the owner of the place Kermit weeks is an awesome individual he also has a KZfaq channel if you want to check it out ( Kermit weeks ) or ( fantasy a flight ) he fly's all the aircraft and show's all kind of cool stuff But Tampa jay your the Best at the qualities of VIDEOS you put out......... So to everyone Seeing this stay safe be good and God bless !!!!!!

Kermit has bigger plans coming...stay tuned.

Kermit weeks the owner of fantasy of flight has a youtube channel also

How do they have machine guns behind the propeller? Do they just hope the bullets go between them?

I hope u got that shirt

Who would have given this a thumbs down? This was a awesome video and very well done by TJ.

you want to see planes, go to pensicola

5:48, Now I can see where #therazorcrest found it's inspiration from.

Not one of the world's largest, it is the world's largest privately owned aircraft collection

how do you tell if it is a boy cow or a girl cow? it's either one or the udder!

Meeks?? There is nothing meek about the owner.

The cows knew they are just French