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  Location within Florida  Fantasy of Flight (the United States) | |
| Established | November 11, 1995 |
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| Location | Polk City, Florida |
| Coordinates | 28°10′16″N 81°48′32″W / 28.171192°N 81.808787°W |
| Type | Aviation attraction |
| Collection size | over 150 aircraft |
| Founder | Kermit Weeks |
| Website | fantasyofflight |
Fantasy of Flight is an aviation museum in Polk City, Florida.
It opened in November 1995, to house Kermit Weeks' collection of aircraft that, until Hurricane Andrew damaged many in 1992, were housed at the Weeks Air Museum in Tamiami, Florida, On April 6, 2014, it closed to the public, aside from private events and on January 30, 2015, it opened a scaled-down museum displaying a small selection of aircraft while the facility is upgraded for a future reopening.[1]
Many of the aircraft displayed are airworthy and some are flown from the facility's grass runways or its seaplane runway.[2]
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