September 30th, 2004
The day I visited the museum it was still the USAF Museum, however they were doing rehersals for some big presentation, it seems that presentation was the official renaming ceremony that took place in early October 2004, so now the place is called the National Museum Of the United States Air Force. You have been told!
The museum is organized into a main facility that houses the vast bulk of the aircraft, an outdoor taxiway with a number of large aircraft and a couple of hangars about a mile away holding presidential and research aircraft.
The museum has in the last year opened two new hangars. One holds the Cold War collection, the other a Rocket and Missile collection.
Images
These are a some of the images from the Museum, they are thumbnails, click on each to get a bigger image.
| Historic | ||
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Wright Flier |
Spad IV |
Supermarine Spitfire V |
Martin A-17 Dive bomber |
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| Post WW-II | ||
F-82 |
F-84 E |
F-84 F |
F-86 |
F-89 |
F-94 |
| Vietnam Era | ||
F-100 Super Sabre |
F-101B Voodoo |
F-102 Delta Dart |
F-105 ThunderChief |
F-105 Wild Weasel |
F-106 Delta Dagger |
F-4 C Phantom |
F-4G Wild Weasel |
T-6 (used as COIN in Vietnam) |
Douglas A-1 Skywarrior |
Boeing B-52 |
B-57 Canberra |
Firebee |
AC-130 Spectre Gunship |
EC-121 Constellation |
OV-10 Bronco |
A-37 and RF-101 Voodoo |
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| Modern / Stealth | ||
B-1B |
B-1B with Quail Decoy (for B-52) |
B-2 Spirit |
The Modern Hall |
F-104 Starfighter |
F-15A Eagle |
F-16 Falcon (in Bicenntial colours) |
YF-22 Raptor and Wright Flier |
Tacit Blue Stealth test vehicle |
X-45A Stealth UCAV |
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| We See You! | ||
SR-71 Blackbird |
GlobalHawk UAV |
M-21 |
Predator UAV |
M-21 |
Darkstar UAV |
| Russian | ||
Mig 15 |
Mig 17 |
Mig 21 |
Mig 23 |
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| Research & Prototypes | ||
YF-12 |
XB-70 Valkyrie |
XB-70 Valkyrie |
X-29 |
X-24 Lifting body |
F-16 AFTI |
X-1B |
X-24 Lifting body |
Hawker Kestrel |
Other images can be seen by clicking on this link: Museum Aircraft (searchable) or this link for the modern aircraft pages