Yanks Air Museum — Attraction in Chino

“It’s Not The Plane, It’s The Pilot.”

Yanks Air Museum is dedicated to exhibiting, preserving and restoring American aircraft and artifacts in order to show the evolution of American aviation. It is located in the town of Chino, CA.

Past and present, I always feel at home going to aviation museums. I have been to many but I must say YANKS AM is one of the best aero museums in SoCal.

Today, I took the time to visit this museum. It is filled with perfectly restored ancient & modern aircraft, gleaming in chrome and polished aluminum. Furthermore, they have some of the best fighter jets (e.g., F-14 Tomcat, F/A-18, F-16) together with 200+ Aircraft on display. The museum has three sections: First, Legends Hanger; Second, StarFighter Hanger and Third, Restoration Hanger.

The entire museum is huge and no visitors was on site, thus, I have it all to myself. This place is heaven!! It took me 2.5 hours to intimately go through all the hangers w specially the Starfighter Hanger. Some of the rare aircraft on display from World War II include the P-51A Mustang, Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, Lockheed P-38 Lightning, P-47M Thunderbolt, North American B-25 Mitchell, Douglas SBD Dauntless, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver and Grumman F6F Hellcat.

Staff was nice. Ticket price cost $20/pp. Parking lot is huge. Overall, this is a good Air Museum perfect for family, pilots and...

If you have the airplane bug, you have to visit Yanks at Cal Aero field in Chino, CA. On display is a wide selection of aircraft ranging from the beginning of flight to the present, with many secondary displays featuring often overlooked support equipment, like control tower radios and ejection seats. Helicopters are well represented, as well as drones and amphibious aircraft. The outside storage area, known as "The Boneyard", offers many additional delights awaiting restoration. There is an active restoration area that you can walk through, showing the craftsmanship and attention to detail applied to each restoration. Connie the cat is the official greeter in the shop, and is very friendly. The big highlight was talking with Joe in the shop, sharing his passion with me and making sure I saw all the rarities hiding in the Boneyard, like the Ford trimotor. Joe was very gracious, being so generous with his time. I know I'll be back for another visit. Highly...

Fantastic collection. Yanks doesn't have an outdoor area like Planes of Fame or March have, but what they have on display is immaculate. High-end car museum immaculate. They have a really nice group of civilian bi-planes from the 20's and a nice summary of history for each one. The restoration area was a bit of a let down. At other air museums I've been to, the restorers love to give you the ins and outs of what they're doing. These guys have a sign telling you to leave them alone. Oh well, still very worth the visit. This and POF would be make for a great day of museum crawling.

Edit: Yes, they do have a bone yard w/ a very nice collection. The day I was there it was roped off and one of the staff (who knew his stuff, btw) had to escort me around. Not sure if that was SOP, but I enjoy being able to wander around the collection w/o taking up someone's time. Still a 5...