Car Rentals Tucson

Discount Car Rentals in Tucson

• Pima Air & Space Museum
  The Tucson Air and Space Museum is located in Tucson, Arizona and is the biggest non-government funded aerospace museum in the entire world. It opened in May, 1976 with 75 aircraft on exhibit and now holds over 250 sitting on 80 acres of desert land, although the entire property of the museum is more than 150 acres. The museum is next to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, and the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), that is affiliated with the base, is called the graveyard of planes or the boneyard and is without a doubt the world's biggest storage and repository of aircraft anywhere. There are numerous bus tours that go to the boneyard, and leave from the museum every day, Monday through Friday. The Titan Missile Museum is run by the Pima Air Museum, located south of Tucson, which features a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile still inside the silo. The first hangar of the air museum contains a plane the visitors can enter, a WWI plane, mock-ups of a control tower, an A-10 Warthog, hall of fame, the second half of a SR-71A Blackbird, some other planes and the Air Force through the years. Other popular planes that are displayed include; Avro Shackleton AEW Mk2, Convair B-36J Peacemaker, Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Douglas A-26 Invader, Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird, Convair B-58 Hustler, Fairchild A-10A Thunderbolt II, Aero Spacelines 377-SG Super Guppy, Douglas B-23 Dragon, and many more. Hangar I north contains the Aerosport Quail, Wright 1903 Flyer Replica, Bede BD-5J Microjet, Taylorcraft L-2M Grasshopper, Curtiss O-52 Owl, Bowers Fly Baby, Flagor Sky scooter, Pacifica Airwave Model 89 Kiss and many more here. There have an Evans VP-1 Volksplane, Waco RNF biplane and Piper J-4A cub coupe on display in the hangar also.  Hangar I north also displays some of the mighty motors that fly these huge planes, hangar 1 south is called the Spirit of Freedom and has a number of awesome planes, as does hangar 3 and hangar 4. Hangar 5 contains satellite aircraft restoration facility, with the 390th Memorial Museum in another, a WWII barracks, a space gallery and a huge number of aircraft outside. 

Tucson Intl Apt Alamo Car Rentals - 7275 S. Tucson Blvd. #115

Alamo Rental Cars Tucson-N.Kolb Rd. - 1037 N. Kolb Rd.

• Sabino Canyon
  Sabino Canyon is a marvelous canyon found in the Santa Catalina Mountains and the Coronado National Forest just north of Tucson, Arizona and is one of the most popular recreation areas in the southern parts of the state. It is a fantastic place to walk, hike, jog, run or ride. Just minutes away from the desert are huge beautiful waterfalls, with small bridges built over them and marvelous wildlife like mountain lions, deer, skunks, javelina, rattlesnakes and tortoises. Some of the first people in the area were the Native American Hohokan people. In 1887, a large earthquake centered in northern Mexico knocked loose massive boulders that had lined the canyon walls and ended up in the valley below. In 1905, the canyon began being taken care of by the newly created U.S. Forest Service and in the great depression, the WPA built the bridges that spanned Sabino Creek and the Sabino Dam. In 1978, the first trams started to run to the canyon and the canyon could only be accessed by bicycle, tram or on foot. Tours started in May of 1985 and gave visitors the chance to experience the wonderful beauty of the canyon and surrounding desert.

January 11, 2011