TOURISM OPPORTUNITIES ABOUND WITHIN SACRAMENTO AREA

The primary reason we’re going to Sacramento and Rally 2006 is to conduct the Council’s business, and specifically consider and perhaps adopt a new strategic plan designed to take the organization into the 21st Century. The meetings will take place on Friday and Saturday morning.

At the same time, Sacramento is a significant travel distance for many, and on that basis a wide variety of social, recreational, and tourism attractions and events have been added to the schedule-we want this event to be substantial and provide good reasons for attendance. There will be plenty to do for those arriving prior to the business meetings and spouses and others who will not be attending the meetings.

Rally 2006 offers a full schedule for both business and pleasure and we hope members up and down the state will see it as an opportunity to have a profitable and fun time late this year.

McClellan was closed some years ago by BRAC action and today is a growing office and industrial park with much to see and do. Richard Kilby of Mojave, California, recently said, “I was born in Sacramento and raised 80% of my life at McClellan. I knew the MP gate guards by their first names and even though I was a civilian I could get on base without even showing an ID, and all through the 1970s and 80s most of the time they would say, ‘How are you today, Mr. Kilby? Going over to DRMO again? Good luck, sir!’ It was great. I was deeply saddened when they closed the base. It was kind of like someone taking away my home.”

The McClellan Aviation Museum, located at 3204 Palm Avenue, has a wide variety of models for viewing, including advanced trainers such as the AT-6D Texan, attack aircraft such as the AD-5 Skyraider, the Thunderbolt II, Corsair II, and fighters Mig-21, the Delta Dagger, the Aardvark, Starfighter, Shooting Star, Super Sabre, Thunderchief, and many more.

In recent years, this museum has been rechartered as the Aerospace Museum of California and claims to have the best collection of aircraft and aviation memorabilia throughout the western states. Here is a link to its webpage: http://aerospacemuseumofcalifornia.org/

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