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The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the Seattle metropolitan area. It is located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in the city of Tukwila, immediately south of Seattle. [5] It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest ...
The Sullenberger Aviation Museum, formerly the Carolinas Aviation Museum, [2] is an aviation museum on the grounds of Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. It is one of a few aviation museums located at an airport which serves as a major hub (Charlotte is the No. 2 hub for American Airlines ).
Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta; Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins; Museum of Flight, Dallas; National Museum of Commercial Aviation, Forest Park – closed; National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Pooler; World Aircraft Museum, Calhoun – closed [49] World War II Flight Training Museum, Douglas
The Air and Space Museum announced a two-year renovation of its main entrance hall, "Milestones of Flight" in April 2014. The renovation to the main hall (which had not received a major update since the museum opened in 1976) was funded by a $30 million donation from Boeing. The gift, which will be paid over seven years, is the largest ...
The Hixson Museum of Flight opened at the Dallas Bay Skypark in Hixson, Tennessee on 25 May 2010. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] After outgrowing its facility, it moved to the Richard B. Russell Regional Airport in Rome, Georgia where it reopened on 26 March 2016.
The museum's first airplane arrived in 1983; a total of twenty-seven airplanes were acquired over the course of the year. The museum officially opened to the public in November 1984 with twenty planes on display and twenty more being restored. [4] By 1988, the museum's name had changed to the Museum of Aviation at Robins. [5]
The Southern Museum of Flight is a civilian aviation museum Birmingham, Alabama. The facility features nearly 100 aircraft, as well as engines, models, artifacts, photographs, and paintings. In addition, the Southern Museum of Flight is home to the Alabama Aviation Hall of Fame, which presents Alabama Aviation History through collective biography.
The museum has several rare aircraft among its collection, including the second Northrop YF-23 Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) 5th generation stealth fighter demonstrator. Also on display is the first Northrop YF-17 Cobra, a lightweight fighter which was the basis for the Boeing (originally McDonnell-Douglas ) F/A-18 Hornet currently used by ...