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Hiller Aviation Museum Hiller Aviation Museum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational museum.

Aviation is meant to be explored!At Hiller Aviation Camp, learning goes beyond the classroom with hands-on activities th...
10/21/2026

Aviation is meant to be explored!

At Hiller Aviation Camp, learning goes beyond the classroom with hands-on activities that encourage kids to build, create, experiment, explore, and discover.

Whether your camper already loves aviation or is ready to discover something new, there’s more to explore at Hiller this fall and winter.

Fall and Winter 2026 camp registration is open, with limited spots available.

🔗 https://www.hiller.org/aviation-camp/

These archival photos offer a behind-the-scenes look at the Hiller Flying Platform in various stages of development.Deve...
10/20/2026

These archival photos offer a behind-the-scenes look at the Hiller Flying Platform in various stages of development.

Development of the prototype began in 1954, bringing together Charles H. Zimmerman’s theories of “kinesthetic control” with ducted-fan research. Just nine months later, the Model 1031 Flying Platform was completed, with its first free flight taking place on January 27, 1955.

These photos provide a fascinating glimpse at the testing, engineering, and evolution behind one of Hiller’s most distinctive aircraft.

From the ground to flight, which photo would you have wanted to see in person?

What happens when you combine Halloween and aviation? You get a pumpkin dropped from a helicopter.Join us Saturday, Octo...
10/18/2026

What happens when you combine Halloween and aviation? You get a pumpkin dropped from a helicopter.

Join us Saturday, October 31 from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM for the Halloween Kids Festival & Helicopter Pumpkin Drop. Enjoy carnival games and the Great Pumpkin Hunt before the pumpkin drops at 12:00 PM.

And don’t miss the rest of Halloween at Hiller:

Haunted Hangar - October 23–31
Halloween Paint-A-Plane - October 24 & 25, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Trunk or Treat - October 29, 5:00–7:00 PM
Halloween Kids Festival & Helicopter Pumpkin Drop - October 31 , 10:00 AM–12:00 PM

Think you know the A-4 Skyhawk?This compact aircraft packed some serious capability. Small enough to operate from U.S. N...
10/17/2026

Think you know the A-4 Skyhawk?

This compact aircraft packed some serious capability. Small enough to operate from U.S. Navy carriers without folding wings, the A-4E could carry up to 8,500 pounds of payload and reach speeds of 585 knots.

Over its long career, the Skyhawk served as an attack aircraft, flew with the Blue Angels, and became an “aggressor” aircraft at the Navy’s Top Gun Fighter Weapons School.

Come get a closer look at an A-4 Skyhawk cockpit at Hiller Aviation Museum.

Cars, airplanes, costumes and candy. That sounds like Halloween at Hiller.Join us Thursday, October 29 from 5:00–7:00 PM...
10/17/2026

Cars, airplanes, costumes and candy. That sounds like Halloween at Hiller.

Join us Thursday, October 29 from 5:00–7:00 PM for Trunk or Treat at Hiller Aviation Museum.

Families can trick-or-treat among creatively decorated cars and airplanes while enjoying a festive evening at the museum.

Trunk or Treat is free and open to the community. Haunted Hangar will also be open that evening with separate admission.

Halloween is getting closer, and there’s more than one way to celebrate at Hiller Aviation Museum.Haunted Hangar - Octo...
10/16/2026

Halloween is getting closer, and there’s more than one way to celebrate at Hiller Aviation Museum.

Haunted Hangar - October 23–31
Halloween Paint-A-Plane - October 24 & 25, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Trunk or Treat - October 29, 5:00–7:00 PM
Halloween Kids Festival & Helicopter Pumpkin Drop - October 31, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (Pumpkin Drop at 12:00 PM)

Whether you come for the spooky Gallery, Halloween activities, trunk-or-treating or the Pumpkin Drop, there’s something for the whole family this Halloween at Hiller.

Hiller helicopters making headlines A look back at vintage magazine covers featuring Hiller aircraft, from a Hiller heli...
10/15/2026

Hiller helicopters making headlines

A look back at vintage magazine covers featuring Hiller aircraft, from a Hiller helicopter soaring above the Golden Gate Bridge to some of the more unusual designs from aviation history.

These covers are a fun reminder of Hiller’s place in the story of Bay Area aviation and the excitement surrounding vertical flight during the 1950s and 1960s.

Which cover is your favorite?

Have you stopped by to see our Artist-in-Residence at work?Amber Allen is currently working on her third painting at the...
10/14/2026

Have you stopped by to see our Artist-in-Residence at work?

Amber Allen is currently working on her third painting at the museum!

A multidisciplinary artist, Amber creates work exploring themes of exploration, nostalgia, and the human experience, often through a space-age lens. During her residency at the museum, she has been working on a series of large surreal oil paintings inspired by current and former astronauts.

If you haven’t had a chance to see her work or her talent in action, now is a great time to stop by. Amber is typically onsite Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from about 10am–3:30/4pm.

Paint, play, explore and celebrate Halloween at Hiller.Halloween Paint-A-Plane returns October 24 & 25 from 10:00 AM–12:...
10/13/2026

Paint, play, explore and celebrate Halloween at Hiller.

Halloween Paint-A-Plane returns October 24 & 25 from 10:00 AM–12:00 PM, featuring Halloween-themed Paint-A-Plane, Vertical Wind Tunnels & Ghosticopters, spooky crafts, Haunted Hangar decorations, a jump house and more.

And that’s just part of Halloween at Hiller:

Haunted Hangar - October 23–31
Halloween Paint-A-Plane - October 24 & 25, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
Trunk or Treat - October 29, 5:00–7:00 PM
Halloween Kids Festival & Helicopter Pumpkin Drop - October 31 , 10:00 AM–12:00 PM (Pumpkin Drop at 12:00 PM)

These photographs capture a Hiller UH-12 flying above the Bay Area decades ago, when the surrounding highways, hillsides...
10/11/2026

These photographs capture a Hiller UH-12 flying above the Bay Area decades ago, when the surrounding highways, hillsides, and neighborhoods looked quite different from what we see today.

One view takes the UH-12 past the Golden Gate Bridge, while others show the helicopter above expanding freeways surrounded by stretches of open land.

The aircraft may be the star of the photos, but the changing Bay Area landscape makes them just as fascinating.

Address

601 Skyway Road
San Carlos, CA
94070

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5am
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm

Telephone

+16506540200

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