TOPGUN Ventures is seeking corporate partners for profitable, unique and aggressive business/education opportunities -- beginning in San Antonio, Texas. This document represents an early-phase, investment and sponsorship capital search, to launch a cohesive and synergistic group of aviation and aerospace businesses -- all poised to strategically capture a sustained growth niche in the $50 billion plus entertainment and museum markets.

San Antonio, now the eighth largest city in the United States and the top tourist destination in the state of Texas, is consistently ranked as one of the top tourist and convention destinations in the U.S., and in the world (Cante Nast Globetrotters Survey). This makes it a uniquely opportune city for TOPGUN Ventures to launch its initial highly profitable aviation/edu-tainment oriented businesses.

TOPGUN Ventures work because of the several million visitors that are drawn annually to this culturally diverse and historically rich city; additionally TOP GUN Ventures works because San Antonio is the number one military aviation city in the world! To date, San Antonio has not marketed this vast historical aviation heritage and rich military legacy to it’s millions of yearly visitors. TOPGUN Ventures will specifically address the long standing lack of military aviation recognition in San Antonio by capitalizing upon the keen interest local and visiting people have in aviation and aerospace technology.

• In 1996, an estimated 75 million people visited Science Museums and Technology Centers in the United States. By comparison, an estimated 87 million spectators attended professional basketball, football and baseball games the same year.
• The movie "TOP GUN" is one of the most successful Hollywood productions of all-time. The movie "Apollo 13" was the second most successful movie in the summer of 1995, with $300 million at the box office.
• The combined yearly attendance of the National Air and Space Museum, Cape Kennedy, The Johnson Space Center, and Space Camp in Huntsville is 13.9 million. Were these NASA facilities operated under a single entity, it would be the second largest themed provider in the entire United States, surpassed only by Disney, and followed by both Universal Studio Parks’ attendance, at just over 11 million visitors a year.
• The Johnson Space Center’s new $75 million Visitor Center opened a few years ago, and in December, 1996, the $45 million Apollo/Saturn V Museum was dedicated at Cape Kennedy. This combined investment of $120 million clearly demonstrates the financial community’s willingness to invest in pure historic space/aviation themed projects.

This interest is especially true of the unique fighter aircraft -- "warbirds". The "warbirds", memorabilia and stories surrounding the most distinguished of the fighter pilots -- the American Fighter Aces – will be represented here in their museum, representing one of the last bastions of real American heroes left in our country today!