Barnstorming
3750 John J. Montgomery Drive, Suite D, San Diego, CA 92123
Barnstorming Adventures at Montgomery Field Airport in Serra Mesa offers 20-to-60-minute flights for one or two in vintage aircraft. With an assigned pilot in the front cockpit — and you in the rear — of a 150-horsepower Varga 21, you do most of the flying, which includes turns, climbs, and glides. Try your hand at aerial dogfighting with the Air Combat flight. You’ll be partnered with an assigned pilot, but you take the controls in a hands-on combat mission. There’s also the Warbird Flight in a 1943 North American SNJ-4 Texan, the aircraft used to train World War II aviators. Or tour the coast in a 1920s Travel Air 4000 biplane. Flights from $177–$795. No flight experience necessary.