San Diego Air & Space Museum Gillespie Field Annex — Attraction in El Cajon

In 1978, the San Diego Air & Space Museum was destroyed in a fire. That is when the Annex at Gillespie Field became a restoration, replica reproduction, and storage facility for the new San Diego Air & Space Museum that now stands in Balboa Park. Today, the San Diego Aerospace Museum at Gillespie Field in El Cajon, CA displays a small collection of Cold War era jets and other aircraft. They have the cutest little play airplanes for kids to pedal around on! I think our son tried out almost every single one. We also stood at the runway for about 20 minutes just watching planes take off and land. It was very entertaining and the jets are so loud.

📍335 Kenney St, El Cajon, CA 92020. The Annex is located on the north side of Gillespie Field. 🚙Free parking in lot 💰12 years and older is $5, 11 years and younger is FREE ⏰ Opened Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00AM-4:30PM 🧺Some picnic tables by the runway but they are in the direct sun with no shade 🦽Wheelchair accessible ☀️I highly recommend going as early as you can because there isn’t any shade outdoors and it gets hot quickly. 🕶Don’t forget your sunglasses, hats,...

Found San Diego Areospace Museum on my way to Montgomery Field. I wanted to finally see that field in person. On April 1st 1993 Dave Rickards, a deejay at KGB-FM in San Diego, announced that the space shuttle Discovery had been diverted from Edwards Air Force Base and would land instead at Montgomery Field in a few hours (at 8:30 am).

There was a large turn out of people. No space shuttles were even up at the time. I don't think anyone will ever top that April first prank.

Here are some of my pictures from the San Diego Areospace Museum. I really liked walking around looking at everything here.

There are small planes kids can ride on.. This was a great location find. I will be back...

I had the pleasure of visiting the San Diego Air & Space Museum Annex at Gillespie Field last May. The guys were very helpful with my question. "Where's my plane?" They have my old airplane a 1936, J-2 Taylor Cub (N16958) there that they are restoring. I have been looking for this plane since I sold it back in the 1960's. It is in pieces right now and the engine (A Conitnental A40-4 Single Mag, 36 HP) was out for overhaul and re-certification. I will be back in San Diego latter this month (March 2014) and hope to go out and see the progress.

Great Location and Great...