In support of an official event 

The Museum will be closed Sunday, May 25
In addition, the Fourth Hangar will be closed Saturday, May 24

Access to the Presidential Gallery will be limited from May 15 to June 5
 

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  • Wind Generator

    Note: This item is currently in storage. This is a Brevette type generator that was used on early aircraft to furnish power for radio operation. It was wind-driven and was most commonly mounted externally on the aircraft landing gear strut.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Packard 1A-2025 Water Manifold

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This type of water manifold was used on R-1, R-4 and R-5 U.S. Army Air Service racing aircraft during the 1920s. These Army aircraft competed for the Pulitzer Trophy.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Packard 1A-2025

    Note: This item is currently in storage.This Packard 1A-2025 engine (S/N 10) was used on the Verville-Packard R-1 racer, which won the first Pulitzer Speed Trophy on Nov. 20, 1920, with a speed of 178 mph.Transferred from Mather Air Force Base.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Hispano-Suiza V Type

    Note: This item is currently in storage. The French Hispano-Suiza (S/N 94757) V type, 8-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine was built in 1918 in the United States by the Wright-Martin Co. The first successful aircraft cannon -- a 37mm M3 cannon -- was mounted in the vee for firing through the hollow

  • Heath Henderson Engine

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The Heath Henderson engine was developed from the air-cooled Henderson motorcycle and used as a power plant for the Heath line of kit-built, and later certified, aircraft.Donated by Mr. Bruce Bissonette.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Q-2 Firebee

    Note: This item is currently in storage.First flying in 1951, this jet-powered Q-2 Firebee aerial target with a high subsonic speed was used in ground-to-air and air-to-air gunnery training. Transferred from the 49th Civil Engineering Squadron.Click here to return to the Featured Accessions index.

  • Lavochkin La-17M Target Drone

    Note: This item is currently in storage.In 1950 the Soviet Air Force began development of a radio-controlled aerial target for training fighter pilots. Production of the Lavochkin La-17 target drone began in 1954. Over the next 40 years, the La-17 incorporated various improvements, including an

  • GAM-67 Crossbow

    Note: This item is currently in storage. The GAM-67 (Guided Air Missile) was a pilotless drone initially designed as a high altitude target. The Crossbow was powered by a Continental J69 gas turbine and could achieve speeds approaching Mach I. The Crossbow was also capable of being ground launched

  • BATCAM

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The BATCAM (Battlefield Air Targeting Camera Autonomous Micro-Air Vehicle) was developed by the Munitions Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory and first flew in 2003. It was designed as a very light battlefield surveillance UAV for the USAF's BAO

  • "The Old Man's Ordeal"

    Note: This item is currently in storage.The donor's father, Thomas Lloyd "Breezy" Boren Jr., a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress named "The Old Man," and his fellow crewman were flying a solo reconnaissance mission over the Solomon Sea and Gasmata, New Britain, in March of 1943 when they were