Museum of Flight

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

The Museum of Flight is an air and space museum at Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington. 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-21 Blackbird
the second Lockheed Martin/Boeing DarkStar Tier III- uninhabited vehicle prototype
the Gossamer Albatross human-powered aircraft.

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 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.

External links

[Museum of Flight official website]

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