If you live anywhere near an Air Force base, you often have the daily treat of a mini-air show consisting of fighter jets and cargo planes. But how often can you say, “I stood next to a U-2 Dragon Lady?” Or “I saw a World War II TG-4 Glider?” Rarely if ever, right?

Get your airplane fix at the Museum of Aviation in Warner Robins. The museum is the second largest in the United States Air Force and the fourth-largest aviation museum in the country. Four buildings house hundreds of exhibits and more than 90 aircraft, including helicopters and trainers, missiles and engines spanning more than a century of flight.

Exhibits include U-2 planes, hump pilots, the Korean War, the 14th Air Force Fighting Tigers, the Tuskegee Airmen and black pilots, and the Georgia Hall of Fame. But the real stars are the aircraft, a line-up featuring some you may have seen at air shows and many that you’ve never seen in person, such as drones, World War II bombers, fighter jets, spy planes, Iroquois helicopters and an SR71 Blackbird. In short, it’s just plane cool.

Open daily from 9 am-5 pm. Located at Russell Parkway and GA Highway 247, seven miles east of I-75, near Robins Air Force Base. Admission is free. 478-926-6870, museumofaviation.org. – Teresa Mariano