I screwed up. Admission is free but gotta have timed tickets and they are completely sold out for Saturday and Sunday and not available Monday until 2:00.

Supposedly the website says they will release same day tix at 8:30am if available. Not sure if that means they release them every day, even on sold out days or not.

I screwed the pooch on this one if I can't get my 14 yr old in there for some considerable time.

Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks for the help.

4pm Sunday is available right now.

Just keep trying

Assuming you're trying to go to the one on the mall, do yourselves a favor and get out to the Udvar-Hazy center at Dulles instead. The collection out there is second to none.

Was gonna say, you can head out to Udar-Hazy. It's awesome albeit not as convenient.

But if you go at 2 on Monday, you'll have like 3.5 hours. Seems that'd be enough for a 14 year old's attention span?

I think Uvdar-Hazy is the better of the 2 personally. I would take the 2 PM tickets and go to Udvar-hazy in the morning and the other one in the afternoon. The space shuttle is at the one by Dulles. I love museums and aviation and I still was out under 3 hours downtown.

+3 on Udvar hazy. They have sr-71 blackbird; b-29 enola gay that bombed Hiroshima; many WW2 planes; satellites; early missiles; Concord supersonic airliner; spirit of Texas helicopter that flew around the world; and more.

Downtown has the iconic ones like Wright Flyer, Spirit of St. Louis, etc.

But for sheer number of planes and types and the big planes that would never fit downtown, yeah, it's Udvar every day and twice on Sunday