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Earn your Aviation Merit Badge!

Join us as you learn about aerospace basics, pilot your course or flying adventure without ever leaving the ground, build a glider from a foam plate and experience the Wings Over the Rockies Flight Simulator Room. Our penguin class also includes a tour of the Air & Space Museum!

The cost of this experience is $25. Please bring a sack lunch. Adults can sit in if space is available and should not register for the class, but instead must pay the museum entry fee.

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Prerequisite: Please download and print the Merit Badge Worksheet and complete step 5 before class.

Please bring your worksheet and a pen to the class. Using resources on the back of the homework, consider three careers in aviation that excite you. Choose the one you are interested in and list the education, training and experience you need for the job!

What do bootleggers, barnstormers, and a retired airplane have in common? You’re about to find out!

Step into the wild side of aviation history this Halloween with a one-of-a-kind adventure! Discover surprising stories of early aerial activity before picking up a paintbrush and transforming a real Cessna 150 into a work of art.

You’ll experience*:

• The history of bootlegging in the American West and its connection to barnstorming
• Painting a retired Cessna 150 alongside Athena Project muralist Sofi Rami
• Muralism learning opportunities for all ages
• A festive mocktail fit for the fall season
• And more!

The finished Cessna will be displayed in our hangar for a limited time, to be seen by other guests, friends, or family during future visits!

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*This event takes place outdoors. Please bring weather-appropriate clothing, water, sunscreen, hats and blankets. All art supplies are provided. After the event, feel free to further explore our Centennial campus. Please bring your own lunch or snacks.

We are pleased to offer a more comfortable museum experience for our friends who have sensory processing sensitivities and their families. 

We welcome those with children, teenagers and adults with processing disorders and other cognitive disabilities, including anyone on the autism spectrum, to experience our exhibits in a lower sensory environment.

Explore:

• STEAM activities for all ages
• A scavenger hunt that takes you around the hangar
• Discovery carts and sensory activities
• Aircraft up close and learn its history

Admission is FREE for children or adults with sensory processing sensitivities and their families.

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Click here to learn more about accessibility, amenities, and view a social narrative and map for your visit to the Air & Space Museum.