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The Museum of Flight Archives is accessible to the public via the Kenneth H. Dalhberg Aviation Research Center. It includes millions of photographs and thousands of linear feet of manuscript materials. Highlights of the collections include the Gordon S. Williams photographic collection, the Peter M.
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Though the museum did not receive one of the four remaining Shuttles, it did receive the Full Fuselage Trainer (FFT), a Shuttle mockup that was used to train all Space Shuttle astronauts. Because it is a trainer and not an actual Shuttle, small group (no more than six persons, minimum age 10,
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Completed in 1994, the 132-seat Wings Cafe and the 250-seat Skyline multipurpose banquet and meeting room increased the museum's footprint to 185,000 square feet (17,200 m). At the same time, one of the museum's most widely recognized and popular artifacts, the
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with a focus on aviation. The school operates in partnership with the museum (which owns the land), Boeing, and other members of the local aviation industry. The facility will also be used for the museum's summer education programs when school is not in session.
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astronauts, cut the ribbon to open the facility on July 10, with an expansive volume of 3,000,000 cubic feet (85,000 m). The gallery's structure is built in a space frame lattice structure and holds more than 20 hanging aircraft, including a
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In December 2017, the Archives launched a digital repository. The site features digitized materials from archival, library, and artifact collections. In April 2019 the Archives began to make archival collections available and searchable online.
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Space Gallery. The new building includes multisensory exhibits that emphasize 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.
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maximum height 6 ft 4 in (193 cm)) guided tours of the interior are available, for an extra charge. The FFT began arriving in various pieces beginning in 2012. The cockpit and two sections of the payload bay arrived via NASA's
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The Harl V. Brackin Library at the Museum of Flight was founded in 1985. As of 2011, it contains 66,000 books and subscribes to 100 periodicals. It specializes in aerospace and aviation. There is also an online catalog.
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In June 2007 the museum opened a new space exhibit: "Space: Exploring the New Frontier", which traces the evolution of space flight from the times of Robert Goddard to the present and into future commercial spaceflight.
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tower exhibit. The tower overlooks the Boeing Field runways, home to one of the thirty busiest general aviation airports in the country. The exhibit offers a glimpse into what it is like to be an
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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
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outside Europe, with the other three being near Washington, in New York, and in Barbados. One of the engines from G-BOAG was sold at auction in 2023 to a bidder for $ 728,240.
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The new Aviation Pavilion spans the gap between the high school and the Space Gallery. The cover allows aircraft which were seasonally brought out, such as the museum's
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The Museum of Flight can trace its roots back to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation, which was founded in 1965 to recover and restore a 1929
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On its grounds is the Personal Courage Wing (PCW) with 28 World War I and World War II aircraft from several countries including Germany, Russia, and Japan.
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The world's first jet airliner. First flew 1949, in production 1952 to 1964. This is currently stored at their restoration center at Paine Field in Everett.
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aircraft. It also has large collection of model aircraft, including every plane from both wars. Many of these aircraft were from the collection of the
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The museum attracts over 500,000 visitors every year, and also serves more than 140,000 students annually through its onsite programs: a
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reconnaissance drones, was placed on the floor at the center of the Great Gallery, after being fully restored.
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which was purchased in a controversial transaction in 2005. It is currently on display at the airpark.
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also known as Building No. 105. Built in 1909, the building was used during the early 1900s as
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That year a funding campaign was launched, so capital could be raised for construction of the
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Pacific Aero Products Company, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle, King County, WA
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Archives, the Lear Corporation Archives, and the Wright Airplane Company Collection.
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in 2019, the Museum of Flight hosted a traveling Smithsonian exhibit with the Apollo
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one of five surviving Aerocars, (automobiles with detachable wings and propeller).
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In June 2010, the museum broke ground on a $ 12 million new building to house a
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The Museum of Flight has more than 150 aircraft in its collection, including:
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as the culmination of Project Welcome Home. The park is free to the public.
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The museum's education programs grew significantly with the building of a
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The surviving cockpit section of 61-7977, an SR-71 that crashed in 1968.
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The next major expansion was opened in 2004, with the addition of the
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in 1992. This interactive exhibit allows students to experience a
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Association of Science-Technology Centers member institutions
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In 1997, the museum opened the first full scale, interactive
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unmanned reconnaissance drone, displayed mounted on the M-21
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Institutions accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
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the prototype Boeing 737-100, formerly operated by NASA as
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N787BX, The third 787-8 prototype. Open for walkthroughs.
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was piloting when she disappeared over the Pacific Ocean
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in Everett with about 39 ongoing projects including a
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A private non-profit air and space museum in Seattle
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Museum of Flight (disambiguation)


King County International Airport (Boeing Field)
Seattle
Washington
Coordinates
47°31′05″N 122°17′49″W / 47.518°N 122.297°W / 47.518; -122.297
Aviation museum
museumofflight.org

non-profit
air
space
museum
Seattle metropolitan area
King County International Airport
Tukwila
Seattle
American Alliance of Museums
Challenger Learning Center
Oregon
Boeing 80A-1
Anchorage, Alaska
Seattle Center
William E. Boeing
Port of Seattle
Boeing
World War II
Duwamish River

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