Long Island’s Central Plains is the perfect place for the Cradle of Aviation Museum. Located in Garden City, near the Mitchel Air Force Base and Roosevelt Field, it commemorates Long Island's role in the history of aviation. With so many historic flights in the area by the mid-1920s, the area was nicknamed the "Cradle of Aviation.” The Cradle of Aviation Museum has more than 60 aircraft and models of airplanes from different time periods on display, such as Charles Lindbergh's Curtiss Jenny, the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, and even an actual never-used Apollo Lunar Module, LM-13, which was supposed to land on the moon with the cancelled Apollo 18 mission.

Address: Cradle of Aviation Museum, Charles Lindbergh Blvd, Garden City, NY 11530, Phone: 516-572-4111

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