Have you used your EAA membership card to get in free to a museum?

[Hal Bryan]

A museum besides ours, that is?

My friend Cory who works on Membership benefits and programs is looking for people who have used the ASTC Passport program that wouldn't mind sharing their story with him.

For those that don't know, this is a benefit that provides EAA members with free admission to more than 300 museums worldwide. A couple of us here on staff have used it on trips to Chicago to get in to the excellent Museum of Science and Industry, for example, and the savings and convenience really are nice.

Anyway, Cory is looking for stories from people that have used it for a piece he's writing for an upcoming issue of Sport Aviation magazine. Feel free to respond here or you can email Cory directly (cpuuri@eaa.org).

Thanks!

Hal

EDIT: Here's a link that will lead you to more info about this program: http://www.eaa.org/passport/

[1600vw]

This might be a stupid reply but...I did not know one could use this EAA card to get into non-aviation museums. How does one go about getting a list of these 300 museums that except this Membership Card?

Tony

[Hal Bryan]

This might be a stupid reply but...I did not know one could use this EAA card to get into non-aviation museums. How does one go about getting a list of these 300 museums that except this Membership Card?

Tony

Not at all, Tony - I meant to include a link in my original post, I'll have to go back and fix that. You can find the master lists here:

http://www.astc.org/passport/

[1600vw]

Thanks Hal. If I would have opened my eye's, I would have seen the link in the first post.

Thanks Hal.

Tony

[Hal Bryan]

Thanks Hal. If I would have opened my eye's, I would have seen the link in the first post.

Thanks Hal.

Tony

Actually, no you wouldn't have - I meant to include it, but forgot. That's why I put the word "edit" in there, making sure the world of the Internet knows it was my oversight, not yours. :)

[1600vw]

I did see that...lol If you can't tell..I just awoke from a nap....Age getting to me...lol

Good info here, I was not aware of this until you mentioned it here.

Thanks Hal you are the man....

Tony

[krw920]

I knew of the program, but have not yet taken avantage of it. Going to NYC next week and see that the Intrepid Museum is on the list, if I can find time on the itineary my wife has put together, may have to take that one in!

[Joe LaMantia]

Hal,
Yes I've done that several times, but not recently. Back when in lived in Wisconsin, I could drive to OSH in about an hr and came up for SportAir workshops as well as the museum. If you fly up and park at the Bassler ramp you can call and a local volunteer will drive over and pick you up and take you over for the tour. EAA HQ is a super destination full of things to see and do all year round. I always liked the spring flying off the grass strip at Pioneer. I got a renewed flying bug there thanks to "Buck Hilbert" back in 1988, that led to EAA membership , then flight lessons and my PPL in 1993. I haven't been there in at least 5 years, but I'm thinking that AirVenture 2014 will find me in attendance so I'll stop in and see what's "new"( in a museum?).

Joe
:cool:

[Mike M]

My friend Cory who works on Membership benefits and programs is looking for people who have used the ASTC Passport program that wouldn't mind sharing their story with him.

not good within 100 miles of home, and my wife always complains when i want to spend vacation time in a museum... i need to travel with buddies more, i guess. whoops, don't let her know i wrote that!

[Hal Bryan]

Not to split hairs, but, yes, there is a 90-mile distance restriction, but the choice of enforcement is left to the individual museums, and any choose not to worry about it.

Hal

P.S. I won't tell your wife. :)

[Mayhemxpc]

Well, shoot! How long has this program been going on? Sure wish I had known about it before starting on the big family vacation this summer. (The OTHER one, not AV.) I paid for the family to see several of the ones listed here.

[FlyingRon]

I'll have to try it. Actually, my wife tends to flash her Smithsonian credentials which at least gets her in most places. I'll have to try that with my EAA card, though I tend to use my Smithsonian associate or Exploratorium membership (when I was still maintaining those) to try for discounts at other museums.

[PaulDow]

I'll have to try it. Actually, my wife tends to flash her Smithsonian credentials which at least gets her in most places. I'll have to try that with my EAA card...Remember to show the BACK of the card for the ASTC logo. A local chapter ran a bus trip to the Intrepid a couple years ago. I didn't go, but told some people about the free admission with their EAA card. They only showed the front of the card, so the person at admissions didn't care about that, and they were charged regular price.

[annken100]

I've used my EAA card several times at the Peabody Museum at Yale, the Museum of Science in Boston, and the Boston Children's Museum. I simply informed them of the reciprocity agreement and showed them my EAA card with the ASTC logo on the back. It's a great benefit.

Ken Pavlou

[krw920]

Just got back from NYC and visited the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space museum for FREE using our EAA cards. Worked like a charm, got to skip the purchasing tickets line, right to the membership line and saved $48 on admission for my wife and I. That just about covers next years EAA membership dues! I always knew of this benefit, but this was the first opportunity I had to take advantage of it.

[rwanttaja]

A museum besides ours, that is?

My friend Cory who works on Membership benefits and programs is looking for people who have used the ASTC Passport program that wouldn't mind sharing their story with him.

I make an annual trip to the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon, every Boxing day (in town with the in-laws for Christmas, wife goes shopping with her sister, and I go to the museum). Been using a reciprocity agreement with Seattle's Museum of Flight to get free entry, but this year flashed my EAA card.

No problems! Flipped it over to show the ASTC, and the nice volunteer slapped a wristband on me and I was in.

Here's a shot of me hanging on to the controls of the Spruce Goose so the repo guys couldn't take it...

http://www.bowersflybaby.com/spruce2.jpg

(OK, I'll fess up: This shot was taken LAST year. But it does make a better story...)

Ron Wanttaja