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Museum of Flight

The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and area museum in the Seattle city. It is located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in the city of Tukwila, right away south of Seattle. [5] It was established in 1965 and is completely accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the biggest private air and space museum worldwide, it likewise hosts big K-12 instructional programs. [6]

The museum brings in over 500,000 visitors every year, [2] and likewise serves more than 140,000 trainees every year through its onsite programs: an Opposition Learning Center, an Air Travel Learning Center, and a summertime camp (ACE), along with outreach programs that take a trip throughout Washington and Oregon. [7]

History

The Museum of Flight can trace its roots back to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation, which was founded in 1965 to recuperate and restore a 1929 Boeing 80A-1, which had actually been discovered in Anchorage, Alaska. The restoration happened over a 16-year period, and after completion, was placed on screen as a focal point for the museum. In 1968, the name “Museum of Flight” initially appeared in usage in a 10,000 sq feet (900 m2) facility, leased at the Seattle Center. Planning started at this time for a more long-term structure, and preliminary ideas were drafted. [8]

In 1975, The William E. Boeing Red Barn was obtained for one dollar from the Port of Seattle, which had actually acquired it after Boeing abandoned it during World War II. The 1909 all-wooden Red Barn, the original home of the business, was barged 2 miles (3 km) up the Duwamish River to its present location at the southwestern end of Boeing Field. [9] [10] Fundraising was slow in the late 1970s, [11] and after remediation, the two-story Red Barn was opened to the general public in 1983. [12]

That year a financing campaign was launched, so capital might be raised for building of the T.A. Wilson Great Gallery. In 1987, Vice President George Bush, joined by 4 Mercury astronauts, cut the ribbon to open the center on July 10, [12] [13] [14] with an extensive volume of 3,000,000 cubic feet (85,000 m3). The gallery’s structure is integrated in a space frame lattice structure and holds more than 20 hanging airplane, including a Douglas DC-3 weighing more than 9 tons. [8]

The museum’s education programs grew substantially with the building of an Opposition Learning Center in 1992. This interactive exhibit enables students to experience an Area Shuttle mission. It consists of a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all locations of area research.

Completed in 1994, the 132-seat Wings Cafe and the 250-seat Skyline multipurpose banquet and conference room increased the museum’s footprint to 185,000 square feet (17,200 m2). At the exact same time, among the museum’s most commonly acknowledged and popular artifacts, the Lockheed M-21, a modified Lockheed A-12 Oxcart created to bring the Lockheed D-21 reconnaissance drones, [15] was put on the floor at the center of the Great Gallery, after being fully brought back. [16]

The first jet-powered Flying force One (1959-1962, SAM 970), a Boeing VC-137B, was flown to Boeing Field in 1996; it got here in June and was opened to visitors in October. [17] [18] Retired from active service earlier that year, [17] it is on loan from the Flying force Museum. Originally parked on the east side of the museum, it was driven throughout East Marginal Way and now resides in the museum’s Aviation Pavilion, where it is open to public walkthroughs.

In 1997, the museum opened the very first complete scale, interactive Air traffic control service tower exhibition. The tower neglects the Boeing Field runways, home to one of the thirty busiest general aviation airports in the country. The exhibition uses a glimpse into what it is like to be an air traffic controller.

The next significant growth was opened in 2004, with the addition of the J. Elroy McCaw Personal Courage Wing, named after J. Elroy McCaw, an area business owner, entrepreneur and World War II veteran. [19] [20] [21] North of the Red Barn, the wing has 88,000 square feet (8,200 m2) of exhibition space on two floors, with more than 25 World War I and The second world war airplane. It likewise has large collection of model airplane, consisting of every airplane from both wars. [22] A number of these aircraft were from the collection of the Champlin Fighter Museum, previously in Mesa, Arizona, [19] [23] which closed in 2003. The wing opened on June 6, the sixtieth anniversary of D-Day. [21]

In June 2010, the museum began on a $12 million new building to house a Space Shuttle it wanted to get from NASA, called the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery. [24] [25] The brand-new structure consists of multisensory exhibits that stress stories from the visionaries, designers, pilots, and crews of the Space Shuttle and other space related missions. The gallery opened to the public in November 2012. [26] [27]

Though the museum did not get among the 4 staying Shuttles, it did receive the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), a Shuttle bus mockup that was to train all Space Shuttle astronauts. [26] Because it is a trainer and not an actual Shuttle, small group (no more than six persons, minimum age 10, optimum height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)) assisted trips of the interior are available, for an additional charge. The FFT began arriving in numerous pieces starting in 2012. The cockpit and 2 areas of the payload bay arrived through NASA’s Super Guppy. [28] [29]

During the 50th anniversary events for Apollo 11 in 2019, the Museum of Flight hosted a taking a trip Smithsonian display with the Apollo Command module Columbia, which was utilized throughout the very first Moon landing. [30]

Aircraft on display

The Museum of Flight has more than 150 airplane in its collection, including:

Exhibits and facilities

On its grounds is the Personal Courage Wing (PCW) with 28 World War I and World War II aircraft from a number of countries including Germany, Russia, and Japan.

There is likewise the “Red Barn”, a registered historic site likewise referred to as Building No. 105. Integrated in 1909, the building was utilized during the early 1900s as Boeing’s initial factory. Through photographs, film, narrative histories, and restoration of work stations the exhibits in the Red Barn highlight how wooden aircraft structure with material overlays were manufactured in the early years of aviation and supplies a history of aviation advancement through 1958.

In June 2007 the museum opened a brand-new area exhibit: “Space: Exploring the New Frontier”, which traces the development of space flight from the times of Robert Goddard to the present and into future business spaceflight.

Restoration facility

The museum keeps a remediation facility at Paine Field in Everett with about 39 continuous projects including a de Havilland Comet 4 jet airliner, a Jetstar, and the Boeing 2707 mockup, among numerous.

Museum of Flight Library and Archives

The Harl V. Brackin Library at the Museum of Flight was established in 1985. As of 2011, it consists of 66,000 books and registers for 100 periodicals; concentrating on aerospace and aviation, it has an online catalog. [44]

The Museum of Flight Archives is accessible to the public through the Kenneth H. Dahlberg Research Center. [45] It includes countless photos and thousands of linear feet of manuscript products. Highlights of the collections include the Gordon S. Williams photographic collection, the Peter M. Bowers Photographic Collection, the David D. Hatfield Aviation History Collection, the Norm Taylor Photographic Collection, the Elrey B. Jeppesen Aviation History and Navigation Collection, the American Fighter Aces Association Archives, the Lear Corporation Archives, and the Wright Airplane Company Collection. [46]

In December 2017, the Archives launched a digital repository. The site includes digitized materials from archival, library, and artifact collections. [47] In April 2019 the Archives started to make archival collections offered and searchable online. [48]

Other facilities

In September 2013, Raisbeck Aviation High School (formerly Aviation High School) opened in a new facility directly north of the museum’s Aviation Pavilion. The school is run by Highline Public Schools as a STEM school with a focus on aviation. The school operates in collaboration with the museum (which owns the land), Boeing, and other members of the regional aviation market. The facility will also be utilized for the museum’s summertime education programs when school is not in session.

Opened to the general public in June 2016, the Aviation Pavilion covers the space between the high school and the Space Gallery. The cover permits airplane which were seasonally brought out, such as the B-17 Flying Fortress and B-29 Superfortress, to be put completely on display screen. Constructed as part of the comprehensive “Inspiration Begins Here!” campaign, the pavilion contains 18 of the museum’s most renowned airplane. The 140,000-square-foot (13,000 m2) roofing system doubles the museum’s exhibit space, and was built with help from Sellen Construction and Seneca Real Estate Development.

In late May 2019, the museum opened the Vietnam Veterans’ Boneyard featuring the completely brought back B-52G Stratofortess Midnight Express (59-2584) as the conclusion of Project Welcome Home. Just west of the Aviation Pavilion, the park is complimentary to the public. [49]

See also

List of aerospace museums

References

Notes

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^ a b “Museum of Flight Annual Report 2015” (PDF). Museum of Flight. p. 18. Retrieved October 29, 2016.
^ “Matt Hayes will succeed Museum of Flight CEO Doug King.” Museum of Flight, July 12, 2017
^ “The Museum of Flight Welcomes Matthew R. Burchette as its New Senior Curator” (Press release). Museum of Flight. July 2, 2019. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
^ “Museum of Flight”. Yahoo Travel. Archived from the original on November 11, 2014.
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^ “Museum of Flight/Aviation High Press Release” Museum of Flight. Retrieved: September 8, 2011.
^ a b Ogden, 1986 p. 193.
^ Truett, Jim (September 7, 1977). “Real professional in charge of flight museum”. Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. p. 17.
^ “Old racetrack now museum of flight”. Ellensburg Daily Record. UPI. September 19, 1981. p. 19.
^ “Flight museum taxiing cab”. Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. October 22, 1980. p. A12.
^ a b “Air museum to open huge gallery”. Spokane Chronicle. Associated Press. July 6, 1987. p. A5.
^ “VIP’s anticipated for flight museum opening”. Ellensburg Daily Record. UPI. July 9, 1987. p. 7.
^ “Flight museum is open”. Ellensburg Daily Record. UPI. July 11, 1987. p. 3.
^ a b “World’s fastest plane Seattle-bound – gradually”. Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. September 11, 1991. p. B3.
^ Ogden, 1986 p. 194.
^ a b c Szabo, Liz (June 21, 1996). “Original Air Force One retires”. Allegheny Times. Beaver, Pennsylvania. Associated Press. p. A4.
^ “First Air Force One to open for public trips this month”. Seattle Times. October 8, 1996. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ a b Lalwani, Sheila (June 19, 2002). “Museum of Flight’s expansion takes wing”. Seattle Times. Archived from the initial on March 3, 2016. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
^ “Museum highlights personal nerve in brand-new fighter wing”. Moscow-Pullman Daily News. Associated Press. November 12, 2003. p. 3A.
^ a b Tu, Janet L. (June 1, 2004). “Museum to release brand-new warplanes wing”. Seattle Times. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ “General History Fact Sheet.” Archived December 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine The Museum of Flight, 2004. Retrieved: August 9, 2011.
^ Slivka, Judd (January 20, 2000). “Champlin Collection”. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Retrieved December 11, 2022.
^ Williams, Lauren C. (June 29, 2010). “Seattle’s Museum of Flight breaks ground in its huge quote for a space shuttle”. Seattle Times. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ “Photo Gallery: How to show a retired area shuttle.” Collect Space. Retrieved: February 4, 2011.
^ a b Broom, Jack (November 7, 2012). “Museum of Flight’s Space Shuttle Trainer display opens Saturday”. Seattle Times. Retrieved September 25, 2014.
^ “Space Gallery Construction Has Begun.” Archived March 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine The Museum of Flight, 2010. Retrieved: March 30, 2011.
^ Brown, Jack (June 30, 2012). “Super Guppy, with space-shuttle fitness instructor on board, touches down at Boeing Field”. Seattle Times. Retrieved September 14, 2014.
^ “Museum of Flight Awarded Full-Fuselage Shuttle Trainer.” The Museum of Flight. Retrieved: April 13, 2011.
^ McKenzie, Madeline (April 10, 2019). “‘ Destination Moon: The Apollo 11 Mission’ exhibit crash at the Museum of Flight”. The Seattle Times. Retrieved September 24, 2019.
^ “First 747 called “City of Everett””. Spokane Daily Chronicle. Associated Press. July 12, 1971. p. 16.
^ “The first 747 jet folds its wings for retirement”. Eugene Register-Guard. Associated Press. April 1, 1990. p. 7C.
^ “Concorde gets here, calls Seattle home”. Spokesman-Review. Associated Press. November 6, 2003. p. B6.
^ Lawless, Jill (November 5, 2003). “Concorde jets get ready for quiet times ahead”. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Associated Press. p. 3E. [long-term dead link] ^ Pyle, Richard (June 27, 2004). “Retired Concorde lands in museum”. Southeast Missourian. Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Associated Press. p. 8A.
^ Gitlin, Jonathan (December 20, 2023). “What would you finish with a used Rolls-Royce Olympus engine from Concorde?”. arstechnica.com. Retrieved December 22, 2023.
^ “De Havilland D.H. 106 Comet Mk. 4C|the Museum of Flight”.
^ “Lockheed M-21 Blackbird.” The Museum of Flight. Retrieved: September 2, 2011.
^ First Boeing 727, now brought back, takes last flight by: Siemny Kim Updated: March 2, 2016; KIRO-TV
^ “Super Constellation CF-TGE.” rbogash.com. Retrieved: November 26, 2010.
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^ Said, Bob: 1983 Sailplane Directory, Soaring Magazine, p. 46. Soaring Society of America November 1983
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