While the SR-71 Blackbird gets all the press, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation ...

From here, you can watch planes land and take off from the nearby airport. The tower is named in honor of late director of the National Air and Space Museum Vice Admiral Donald D. Engen. Former ...

Aircraft storage at Davis-Monthan Field started in 1945 when the Army Air Forces formed the 4105th Base Unit to store extra ...

If realized, the system would mark the first time that the U.S. would put weapons in space, which could be fired ... stopping them midcourse in the air, or halting them in the final minutes ...

National Air and Space Museum can now tap our web address (airandspace.si.edu) into their smart phones to find out more about many of the air- and spacecraft they see on display. From these online ...

Kyle Sansom, assigned to the 151st Medical Group, 151st Wing, Utah Air National Guard, prepares to perform a tooth extraction. The medical tent is part of a fully operational field hospital ...

The Air Force graph revealed that the plane would have a top speed of approximately Mach 2+, or around 1,550 miles per hour, similar to the F-22 Raptor. In March, President Donald Trump revealed ...

But it didn’t fly there. The Philippine Mars, a flying boat to carry troops and equipment, arrived at the Pima Air and Space Museum overnight Friday into Saturday. Now that it has arrived there are ...

Ah yes, space—the final frontier ... So, preservationists are getting creative. One idea? Museum orbits. You heard right. A celestial Smithsonian, gently circling Earth like a nostalgic screensaver.

The hotline between the Department of Defense (DOD) and air traffic controllers at Reagan Washington National Airport has not worked for more than three years, according to a top Federal Aviation ...

The image of that plane from Wichita descending into Reagan National Airport was a stark ... looks like it came out of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. It may as well be a duct-taped flip ...

It will be retired at the Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, but it’s been through quite the journey to reach its final destination. Mechanical problems forced the aircraft to return to Canada ...