Selfridge ANGB Air Museum
OK, you can't fly into it, but if you find yourself near Selfridge Air National Guard Base ( North of the Detroit area) there is an air museum you really might want to check out.
The base has a museum of the various aircraft (about 20-30) that were based there since the 1950's and before. In particular, there is a P-3 Orion and a C-130A that are open to walk through and sit in the cockpits. The P-3 Orion you enter the back and walk through to the front seeing the 1970's vintage antisub equipment and you can sit in the pilot's seat. A massive airplane. The same arrangement exists for the C-130A, you can walk around in the back of the airplane where the paratroops would have sat and then you can climb up into the flight deck and sit in the pilot's (or co-pilot's or flight engineer's or navigator's) seat and get a feel for what it would have been like to fly one of these things. Suprisingly, the visibility out of the C-130 was quite good.
There is also an inside museum area with cross sectioned P-51 and P-47 engines and an F-16 cockpit you can sit in. Aircraft I can remember seeing outside there included F-84, F-86, F-100, F-101, F4, F-16, F-14, a Canberra, AH-1, UH-1, F-101, F-106, a Nike-Ajax, a Nike Hercules and a bunch of observation aircraft and some others I cannot remember at this moment. It's not Wright Patterson but it is worth stopping in for. Comparable to Castle AFB Museum in Atwater CA.
I was there this afternoon as part of a CAP training assignment. I believe all you need to do to get on base is to stop at the main gate and ask to see the museum after showing your driver license. Be careful to ask where you can and can't go - I was warned that there was a restricted area nearby where alert F-16s were kept and appropriately guarded.
Right close to I-94 exit 238 I think.
--JCB