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Historic Sites
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20th Century Technology Museum Wharton, Texas |
Exhibits featuring technological developments such as electronic media, home appliances |
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Air Force Armament Museum Eglin Air Force Base, Florida |
At this museum, visitors can experience everything from aviation warfare armament from |
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Air Mobility Command Museum Dover, Delaware |
Exhibits in this museum range in topic from the Berlin Airlift to the Korean War to air |
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Airborne & Special Operations Museum Fayetteville, North Carolina |
The Airborne & Special Operations Museum will provide a unique educational experien |
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Alaska Aviation Heritage Museum Anchorage, |
Visitors are able to inspect and observe a number of aircraft, including one of the fou |
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Alaskaland Pioneer Air Museum Fairbanks, |
Alaska's pioneer history coincided with advances and experiments in flight, and this Fa |
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Aviation Museum Of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky |
This 12,000-square-foot museum, located in a hangar on Lexington's Blue Grass Airport, |
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Castle Air Museum Atwater, California |
The aircraft displayed at the Castle Air Museum, planes like the B-17 Flying Fortress, |
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Cavanaugh Flight Museum Addison, Texas |
Walk past wood and fabric aircraft from the World War I era. |
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Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park Dayton, Ohio |
Dayton Aviation consists of four units that tell the stories of Wilbur Wright, Orville |
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Fargo Air Museum Fargo, North Dakota |
One of the main attractions of the museum is a full-scale replica of a Wright Brothers |
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Fleischmann Atmospherium Planetarium Reno, Nevada |
Located at the northwestern edge of the University of Nevada-Reno campus, the Fleischma |
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Fort Vancouver National Historic Site Vancouver, Washington |
Fort Vancouver NHS and the McLoughlin House unit offer a variety of opportunities for p |
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Grissom Air Museum Peru, Indiana |
The museum has 25 legendary aircraft on outdoor display, spanning from WWII to the Gulf |
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Hill Aerospace Museum Hill Air Force Base, Utah |
Hill Aerospace Museum is located on approximately 30 acres on th |
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Minuteman Missile National Historic Site Philip, South Dakota |
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Nasa Wallops Flight Facility Visitors Center Wallops Island, Virginia |
Rocket launches at WFF can be difficult to view due to the small size of some sounding |
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National Air And Space Museum Washington, District Of Columbia |
This museum, which opened in 1976, maintains the largest collection of historic air and |
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National Aviation Heritage Area Dayton, Ohio |
The new National Aviation Heritage Area (NAHA) joins 26 other heritage areas in existen |
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National Naval Aviation Museum Pensacola, Florida |
Some of the most technologically advanced airplanes to ever |
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Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Red Hook, New York |
This museum presents one of the largest collections of early aeroplanes in the world, m |
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Patuxent River Naval Air Museum Lexington Park, Maryland |
The museum has an extensive collection of outdoor display aircraft, including an F-14A |
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Red Baron Museum Marshall, Minnesota |
The Stearman biplane has a rich history. |
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San Diego Air And Space Museum San Diego, California |
The San Diego Air & Space Museum educates visitors on aviation and space flight his |
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Silent Wings Museum Lubbock, Texas |
Visitors can transport themselves into the era of swing music and patriotism and experi |
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Southern Museum Of Flight Birmingham, Alabama |
The museum's exhibit halls include the following: |
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Space Needle Seattle, Washington |
The symbol of Seattle was built for the 1962 World's Fair and features an observation d |
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Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site Tuskegee, Alabama |
In the 1940's Tuskegee, Alabama became home to a "military experiment" to train America |
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U.s. Army Aviation Museum Fort Rucker, Alabama |
The United States Army Aviation Museum, located in South-central Alabama, maintains a c |
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U.s. Space & Rocket Center Huntsville, Alabama |
The facilities include Spacedome Theater, Rocket Park, the Education Training Center, w |
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