Aerospace Museum, Villamor Air Base

Villamor Air Base (IATA: MNL, ICAO: RPLL) is home of the Philippine Air Force. It is chiefly used as an air base for PAF transport and helicopter flights. It is also the military base that the Philippine president uses when departing for trips abroad, though foreign departures are mostly done at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. The air base is named in honor of a Filipino pilot, Jesús A. Villamor, who fought during World War II.

The base was originally called Nichols Field during the time of the Philippine Commonwealth period and later as Nichols Air Base after Philippine independence. The complex also includes the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. In 1997, the base was reduced to a small portion to make way for the construction of NAIA Terminal 3 and Newport City.

In 2007, a Skyway exit to both the air base and NAIA Terminal 3 was completed.

The Runways of this base are also used by Ninoy Aquino International Airport Units stationed at Villamor Air Base:
•    250th Presidential Airlift Wing
•    520th Airbase Wing
•    505th Search and Rescue Group
•    207th Tactical Operations Squadron

Getting around

The Light Rail Transit (LRT-1) is the fastest and cheapest way to get from Manila to Pasay. From its station in Monumento, the LRT traverses the Rizal Avenue Ext. in Caloocan going to the City of Manila all the way up to Pasay City.
Public transportation within the city, like in most of the urban areas in the Philippines, is facilitated mostly using inexpensive jeepneys and buses. Tricycles (motorbikes with an attached two seater carriage) are the usual transportation used for short distances, while Taxi cabs are used by the upper middle class. The roads are organized around a set of long narrow and circumferential roads that radiate and circle in and around the city.

Accommodations

•    Marriott Hotel Manila - 10 Newport Boulevard, Newport City Complex, Pasay, , Pasay Airport Area, Manila, Philippines 1309
•    Maxims Hotel - Newport Boulevard, Pasay, Pasay Airport Area, Manila, Philippines
•    Heritage Hotel - Roxas Boulevard corner EDSA, Pasay City, Pasay Airport Area, Manila, Philippines
•    Midas Hotel - 2702 Roxas Boulevard, Pasay Airport Area, Manila, Philippines
•    Copacabana Apartment Hotel - 264 Edsa Extension, Pasay Airport Area, Manila, Philippines 1302