About 7-8 hours south you can get to Dayton Ohio, home of the USAF Museum. It doesn’t have the flyable aircraft as Duxford does but there are tons of aircraft to look at.
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/
If your driving down to Dayton I would recommend stopping in Akron, Ohio at the Military Aircraft Preservation Society museum. It’s a growing outfit that is restoring several aircraft to both static and flyable condition. In addition to their restoration projects they have a few of their own museum pieces as well as a few privately flyable aircraft (P-51, B-25, etc.) on display.
http://www.mapsairmuseum.org/
About 5-6 hours from Toronto you can get to the Yankee Air Museum at Willow Run (WW2 manufacturer of the B-24) outside of Detroit. In addition to the static aircraft they have a number of flyable aircraft but I recommend going during the non-airshow season months as most are out making their rounds for most of the year.
http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/
Another 1-2 hours past Detroit in Kalamazoo, Michigan there is the Kalamazoo Air Zoo Museum which has a great collection of aircraft, most of which fly. They also have a restoration facility that you can tour. The Air Zoo is moving in the near future to a new facility in St. Louis or something but I don’t think that’s happening for a year or so.
http://www.airzoo.org/
I hope these help. They aren’t next door to Toronto but I feel they are worth the trip.
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