History
As early as the 1980's - just a few years into the SUN 'n FUN Fly-In - founding director Billy Henderson and others envisioned an aviation museum to anchor the campus and provide a year-round educational and historic presence. Formal planning began in 1983 by a museum committee that interviewed architects, solicited land from the City of Lakeland, and secured the present museum location on the SUN 'n FUN Fly-In property southwest of Lakeland Linder Regional Airport. A