National Museum of the U.S. Air Force - Wright-Patterson AFB

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National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

1100 Spaatz St.
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, 45433

The world's largest and oldest military aviation museum, located in Dayton Ohio.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum, featuring more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles on display amid more than 17 acres of indoor exhibit space.  Also on location is the 400-seat, Digital 3D Air Force Museum Theatre.

Upcoming Events: National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

TOP SECRET: License To Spy

TOP SECRET: License To Spy

12/03/2024

Museum visitors will go undercover and enter a world of coded messages and satellite surveillance when they take on the role of a secret agent in the latest feature exhibition, Top Secret: License to Spy Sept.15-Dec. 16

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2/04/2024: Dayton, OH - The first North American XB-70 Valkyrie, a futuristic nuclear strike bomber that could fly at Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton, Ohio.

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2/07/2023: Dayton, OH - The Space Shuttle Trainer at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, opens a whole new world to local kids of all ages.

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1/11/2023: Dayton, OH - In January the National Museum of the US Air Force Gallery Features highlights the Research and Development Gallery.

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11/22/2022: Dayton, OH - SAM 26000, Kennedy's Air Force One, is on display in the Presidential Gallery of the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

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5/05/2022: Dayton, OH - Hanoi Taxi is a Lockheed C-141 that became famous for bringing back the first returned prisoners of war in Operation Homecoming.

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8/02/2015: Dayton, OH - On Aug. 9, 1945, the B-29 Bockscar dropped the ''Fat Man'' atomic bomb on Nagasaki, which led to Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of World War II.

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