Museums
Canada has a National aviation museum in Ottawa, well worth a visit. They even have a Fox Moth on floats .
There is also the Canadian Warplane Heritage collection at Hamilton, if you can afford it you can get a ride in their Lancaster. They are currently restoring to flying condition a Lysander and a Bolingbroke, when they are finished they have an Anson which they say will only cost about 100k $Cdn to restore to flying condition.
At Sault St Marie there is an excellent float plane museum
Museum of flight at Seattle is superb, but the restoration centre at Paine field, Everett is great. The Comet 4C is slowly being restored, one day it will have to travel down the interstate through Seattle to the museum, that'll be interesting.
There is a nice museum at Pearson field, Vancouver, Washington. Housed in the original US Army Air Force buildings
Tillamook is good, quite a spectacular site. A wooden building capable of holding six airships, with doors 180 ft high. The only time I have ever seen a Martin Mauler.
Nobody has mentioned East Fortune or the Helicopter museum at Weston super mare, both worth a visit.
Time to spare. Go by air.
HD
Just thought of another two
The National Warplane Museum and the National Soaring Museum sit on opposite sides of the airfield at Elmira NY.
A visit could easily be combined with a trip to Old Rhinebeck.
Time to spare. Go by air.
HD