Museum of Flight

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For the Museum of Flight in East Lothian, Scotland, see Museum of Flight (Scotland).

For the Museum of Flight in Hawthorne, California, see Western Museum of Flight.

The Museum of Flight is an air and space museum at Boeing Field in Tukwila, Washington,[1] adjacent to Seattle. It has a wide collection of planes, including:

• City of Everett, the Boeing 747 prototype
• the first presidential jet, VC-137B SAM 970, which served in the presidential fleet from 1959 to 1996
• a British Airways Concorde (Number: 214. Registration: G-BOAG), the only Concorde west of the Appalachians
• the world's first fighter plane (a Caproni Ca 20)
• the only surviving Lockheed M/D-21 Blackbird
• the second Lockheed Martin/Boeing DarkStar Tier III- unmanned vehicle prototype
• the Gossamer Albatross human-powered aircraft.
• one of five Aerocars, automobiles with detachable wings and propeller
• LearAvia Lear Fan prototype, N626BL

On its grounds is the Red Barn, Boeing's original manufacturing plant. Through photographs and restoration of work stations the exhibits in the Red Barn illustrate how wooden aircraft structure with fabric overlays were manufactured in the early years of aviation.

The museum maintains a restoration facility at Paine Field in Everett. A de Havilland Comet 4 jet airliner is a current restoration project. A previous project, the only flyable Boeing 247 in existence, is based from the airfield at the restoration center.

[edit] External links

• Museum of Flight official website
• Interview with Museum of Flight Director, Dr. Bonnie Dunbar (11/05)