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Foynes Flying Boat Museum

TripAdvisor Traveler Rating: 4.0 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: # 1 of 1 attractions in Foynes
Traveler Description: The Foynes Flying Boat Museum chronicles that brief but romantic era when the famous Pan Am Clippers used Foynes as their gateway to Europe and back... more »
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Attraction type: Transportation museum, Specialty museum
Address: Main Street Foynes
Ireland
Tel: 353 69 65416
Fax: 353 69 65416

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5 of 5 stars
Tarpon Springs, Florida
Aug 18, 2007

Old and young timers can apprecite yesteryear flying history at Foynes Flying Boat Museum. Home of "Irish Coffee", the only dedicated flying boat museum in the world, Foynes recalls the 1939-45 short lived era of the flying boats. A full scale replica of the Boeing B314 flying boat is the main attraction at the museum. Visitors can wander through a... more

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5 of 5 stars
London, United Kingdom
Jul 23, 2007

If you are heading to Adare in C. Limerick it is worth taking in a trip to Foynes on the Shannon Estuary to the Flying Boat Museum which is housed in the restored terminal building of the Trans Atlantic Flying Boat service which connected this sleepy port town to Botwood in Newfoundland and during the war years to Lisbon, Azores,... more

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5 of 5 stars
Dyer, Indiana
Jun 12, 2007

I visited the museum on May 4, 2007. What a treasure! What a surprise! It is a real DON'T MISS SITE for all Pan Am and flying boat enthusiasts. The major surprise is that they have a full-scale mock-up of the huge Boeing-314 flying boat that first established trans-Atlantic passenger flying service. For a modest fee, visitors can walk through... more

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2 of 5 stars
Warminster, PA
Oct 13, 2006
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Visited the second week of October 2006: the Foynes Flying Boat Museum has so much going for it; good location, parking, sizable building, interesting photography and displays, great introductory film detailing how Foynes became so important to early transatlantic aviation, and the impressive Boeing 314 Clipper Mockup that you can walk aboard and tour bow to stern. You do get... more

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Foynes Flying Boat Museum Address

Main Street, Foynes, Ireland
Tel: 353 69 65416 Fax: 353 69 65416