Spirit of St. Louis on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight exhibit at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington ... Day from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. ET.

The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwable was the world's first operational jet aircraft and was powered by an engine designed by ...

The iconic North American P-51 Mustang turned the tide of the air campaign in World War II in the allies’ favor. According to ...

Haley Daugherty Friday, May 16, 2025 4:30 p.m. | Friday ... it will appear in an air show. From there, he’ll fly the aircraft to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington ...

Faster than the North American P-51 ... the Museum's Me-262, to Cherbourg, France, loaded them aboard the British aircraft carrier HMS "Reaper," and sailed to the United States. The NASM Me-262A-1a ...

After being ferried to an altitude of around 45,000 feet by the WhiteKnightTwo aircraft, Unity propelled itself to an altitude of 51. ... to the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum ...

The PA-48 was an almost-all-new airplane, but it bore a strong resemblance to its heroic ancestor, the P-51 ... Air Force serial numbers. Jeff Duford, a curator at the National Museum of the ...

The P-61 was a beautiful ship to fly. It didn’t have a wicked bone in its body, and would tolerate mishandling that would ...

“We are thrilled to welcome B-29 Doc and P-51 Gunfighter along with the 51st Annual East Coast Military Vehicle Rally to the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, the historic home of Fairchild Aircraft ...

at the National Air and Space Museum. | Credit: Smithsonian/Mark Avino Other areas of the National Air and Space Museum reopening at the same time include three aviation-themed halls — "Barron ...

The Smithsonian is almost ready to open five more of the Air and Space Museum's halls as its 7-year renovation continues. From John Glenn's Friendship 7 to Blue Origin's New Shepard, space ...

On Monday, July 28, five new galleries will open to visitors at the National Air and Space Museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s seven-year-long renovation of the aerospace museum on the ...