All exhibits and displays are well identified to permit touring without guides. Photography is encouraged, although flash equipment will be required for most interior pictures. Documentary films are shown free in Carney Auditorium on Saturday, Sunday and holidays. A gift shop, bookstore, model shop and poster shop, operated by the Air Force Museum Foundation, sell aviation-oriented items with profits used to assist the Air Force Museum. A cafe is available for refreshments.
Picnic tables are available during the summer months.
Sack lunches cannot be accommodated in the Museum building. Handicapped facilities include special parking, an elevator to the second floor, restroom facilities, lowered water fountains and a volume-controlled telephone. Baby strollers, wheelchairs, and a family restroom are available on a limited basis for use inside the Museum building. Approximately 50 aircraft, including the Museum's collection of Presidential aircraft, are exhibited in two hangars on the historic Wright Field flight line, about one mile from the main Museum building. The hangars operate daily on a reduced schedule, which is posted in the Museum lobby.