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Air and Space Museum

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Spinner, Spirit of St. Louis, Charles A. Lindbergh, NY-Paris Flight May 21, 1927

Black and orange painted plane with landing skis.

Fairchild FC-2W2 Stars and Stripes

Waco 9

Stits SA-2A Sky Baby

Silver painted commercial airplane displayed at the museum.

Boeing 307 Stratoliner "Clipper Flying Cloud"

Boeing FB-5 Hawk

Martin PBM-5A Mariner

Yellow and white commercial aircraft with brown trim and brown Boeing marks, displayed in an airplane hangar.

Boeing 367-80 Jet Transport

Top view of green monoplane with yellow wings

Boeing P-26A Peashooter

Convair XFY-1 Pogo

Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart

Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina

Custom designed silver racing aircraft with a three-blade propeller, wide wings, and low-profile covered cockpit. Covered wheels on landing gear. Large yellow "Champion Spark Plugs" logo painted on side just below cockpit. Number "29" painted in black on side and wing.

Turner RT-14 Meteor

Nelson BB-1 Dragonfly

North American FJ-1 "Fury"

Nakajima J5N1 Tenrai (Heavenly Thunder)

Side view of white and red single-engine biplane hanging upside down, registration number N15696 on fuselage.

Bücker Bü-133C Jungmeister

Side view of the white gondola. Brown cloth panels extending to the right. Red text visible.

Gondola, Strato-Jump III

Goodyear Inflatoplane (GA468)

Silver, red, and blue Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor aircraft

Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor

Rounded box-shaped silver-canvas covered World War I USMC Balloon Basket

Balloon Basket, USMC, World War I

Acorn colored cane basket suspended from the ceiling.

Balloon Basket, USA, World War I, United States Army Air Service

Green fuselage of a Japanese aircraft.

Kugisho MXY7 K-2 Ohka (Cherry Blossom) 43B

Hawker Siddeley XV-6A Kestrel (FGA Mk. 1)

Metal balloon basket decorated with red, white, and blue stars and stripes

Gondola, Balloon, Don Piccard

Grumman F9F-6 Cougar

Metal and blue-winged Hughes H-1 Racer

Hughes H-1 Racer

Douglas A4D-2N/A-4C Skyhawk

Side view of a red and white plane suspended from the ceiling. The number NI538C is written on the side in red, as is Spirit of Columbus in cursive.

Cessna 180

Overall, side view of Lockheed F-104A Starfighter jet hanging in museum

Lockheed F-104A Starfighter

Kawanishi N1K1 Kyofu (Mighty Wind) REX

Full view of a silver paneled plane suspended from the ceiling. There is a figurine in brown flying gear in the cockpit, and TWA is written on the plane's side in red.

Northrop 4A Alpha

Oil Cooler Shutter Control Placard, Japanese

High-wing monoplane with red and cream colored paint hanging in the museum.

Piper PA-18 Super Cub

Basket, Balloon, Wicker


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