Overnight Reservations are now being accepted for 2023-2024. New safety modifications will be in place during the program and will be observed.
Set Calendar Dates for 2023-2024 are available for registration. To request a weekday or a date not already set please use the separate registration link to the right
Upon Booking a Non Refundable $100 deposit will be required to secure your date
Questions? Email overnights@uss-hornet.org.
We Kindly Request that Youth Groups Register Under 1 Group Leader and Not Individually
Program Cost
All prices include Dinner and Breakfast in the original Crew’s Mess, tours throughout the ship, General Admission to the Museum the following day, a frame worthy Certificate, and a commemorative Patch for all youth attending the program. Our pricing tiers are determined by your group type:
FAMILY/SMALL GROUP
$100 per person for Museum Members/$120 per person for Non-Members.
For family and friend groups not affiliated with an established youth organization or company/corporation.
Choose from any ‘Family/Small Groups’ Date on our Reservation Form
YOUTH GROUPS & SCOUTING
Weekday rate (Monday-Thursday):
$85 per person
Weekday events are only for organized school or scout groups. Individuals must register for Weekend events.
Weekend rate (Friday-Saturday):
Individuals and groups less than 10: $120/person
Groups 10 or more: $100/person
Museum Members: $100/person
Choose from any Date on our Reservation Form
Night Ops: Live-Aboard Overnight Adventure
*Set Calendar Dates for 2023-2024 are available for registration. To request a weekday or a date not already set please use the separate link below
Ever wonder how an aircraft carrier works? Come aboard and spend the night living with history on the ultimate overnight adventure and find out how USS Hornet’s sailors lived and worked on this city at sea! Designed for ages 7 and up, this is a perfect group activity for scouts, youth groups, schools, friends, and families!
During the Night Ops Overnight you will tour key areas of the ship to see various spaces and systems and discuss the history, science, and engineering behind them. As you move around the ship, you can participate in several hands-on science stations and demonstrations interspersed with seeing sailors’ living spaces! The experience includes:
– Sleeping in restored, original sailor sleeping compartments
– Enjoying Dinner and Breakfast in the original Enlisted Crew’s Mess
– Learning about this famous aircraft carrier’s daring exploits
– Touring key areas of the ship and the historic naval aircraft on display
– Learning about NASA’s Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions that put the first men on the moon
– Earning an overnight crew Patch & Certificate
– Ample Free Parking
All Overnight Guests must be at least 7 years old.
STEM STATION OPTIONS MAY INCLUDE
Boiler and Engine Room
– Powering the ship
– Thermodynamics, energy transfer/conversion, turbines, power
Catapult Room
– Machinery for launching planes
– Kinetic/potential energy, hydraulics/pneumatics, mechanical advantage
Flight Deck
– On-deck catapult, launching/recovering planes
– Kinetic /potential energy, forces, optics (Fresnel lens system)
Island
– Navigation systems, radar, sonar, sound-powered phones
– Waves, communications
CPO Mess
– Hydraulics/Pneumatic
– Electromagnetism
– Magnets, field paper, motor, generator, induction tubes, ring throw
Night Wings: An Aviation Themed Overnight
Night Wings: An Aviation Themed Overnight
Now is your chance to earn your wings while spending the night onboard a historic aircraft carrier. During our highly focused aviation themed new overnight you will get a chance to meet naval aviators and learn the science behind the principles of flight. Your evening includes tours of the ship, The 4 Forces of Flight STEM activity, meet and greet with a Navy pilot, and the opportunity to sit in a cockpit. Come aboard and spend the night living with history on the ultimate overnight adventure and find out how USS Hornet’s aviators lived and worked on this city at sea! Designed for ages 7 and up, this is a perfect group activity for scouts, youth groups, schools, friends, and families!
*Night Wings is offered quarterly on our registration page
The experience includes:
– Sleeping in restored, original sailor sleeping compartments
– Enjoying Dinner and Breakfast in the original Enlisted Crew’s Mess
– Learning about this famous aircraft carrier’s daring exploits
– Touring key areas of the ship and the historic naval aircraft on display
– Access to special aviation themed spaces
– Learn the Four Forces of Flight from a naval aviator
– Sit in a jet cockpit
– Learning about NASA’s Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 missions that put the first men on the moon
– Earning an overnight crew Patch & Certificate and Wings
– Ample Free Parking
REGISTER for October 14th 2023
More Dates for 2023-2024 will be added shortly
