Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

From The Guardians of the Galaxy to Captain Flight, comics and graphic novels have always been a fun way to learn more about aviation and space. The stories in comics also help us imagine what's ...

The Museum’s collection of 30 World War II-era American military aircraft ranges from propeller-driven trainers, fighters, flying boats, and bombers to the nation’s first generation of jet-powered ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC. The ...

First flown in 1953, the F-100 Super Sabre was developed from the F-86, and was the world’s first fighter capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Used widely during the Vietnam War, the North ...

The first supersonic airliner to enter service, the Concorde flew thousands of passengers across the Atlantic at twice the speed of sound for over 25 years. Designed and built by Aérospatiale of ...

Arthur P. Fraas (1915-2011) graduated from the Case Institute of Technology with a BS in Mechanical Engineering in 1938 and earned an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from New York University in 1943.

In 1919 General William "Billy" Mitchell organized the first mass transcontinental air race, dubbed by the Air Service the "Transcontinental Reliability and Endurance Test." The race was originally ...

Visit us in Washington, DC and Chantilly, VA to explore hundreds of the world’s most significant objects in aviation and space history. Free timed-entry passes are required for the Museum in DC.

Captain Edwin John "Bud" Kroeger was designated a Naval Aviator in 1938. He was a dive bomber pilot assigned to Bombing Squadron Six attached to the USS ENTERPRISE. He was part of a scouting mission ...

The name Meriwether is woven into the fabric of the United States of America. Our progenitor in America, Nicholas Meriwether, arrived in Tidewater Virginia from Oxfordshire England around 1652. His ...