National Museum of the United States Air Force

View of the National Museum of the United States Air Force Main entrance to the museum

The National Museum of the United States Air Force (formerly the United States Air Force Museum) is the official national museum of the United States Air Force and is located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio. Over 400 aircraft and missiles are on display, most of them indoors. Admission is free.

Exhibits

The museum has many rare and important aircraft and other exhibits, including one of four surviving Convair B-36s, the only surviving XB-70 Valkyrie, and Bockscar–the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the second atomic bomb in World War II. In contrast to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum, nearly all of the museum's exhibits are extremely accessible. Most are easily touched, even investigated, by visitors.

National Museum Of The United States Air Force Media

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  Aerial view of the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

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  Boeing B-17F Memphis Belle on display in the WWII Gallery at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

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  An overhead gallery view of the fourth building aircraft at the National Museum of the United States Air Force including the Boeing VC-137C SAM 26000 used as Air Force One by Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon.

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  Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour which carried David Scott, James Irwin, and Alfred Worden to the Moon in 1971 on NASA's fourth crewed lunar landing mission

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  An overhead view of the fourth building aircraft at the National Museum of the United States Air Force including the North American XB-70 Valkyrie

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  The KH-9 Hexagon photographic reconnaissance satellite on display at the National Museum of the USAF

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  "Enlisted Heritage Uniforms" exhibit on display at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

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  Major General Billy Mitchell's uniform displayed on far left at National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

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  Part of the "Warrior Airmen" exhibit on display in the Cold War Gallery at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

Other websites

• Official website
• The Air Force Museum Foundation - a private non-profit organization supporting the mission and goals of the National Museum of the USAF