Voyager Enroute to NASM

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

National Air and Space Museum

Notes

Original negative number is 87-16289-7, but that negative has been lost. Installation of Voyager see Neg. No. 87-16212-12

Summary

A section of the "Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, on a flat bed truck outside the National Air and Space Museum. The airplane was moved from the Garber Facility to NASM in the middle of the night for installation in the museum.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Box 34, Folder: 21A

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1987

Standard number

2002-12206

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Type

Photographic print

Physical description

Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Event; Medium: Photographic print

Place

United States of America, District of Columbia, Washington, Southwest, 100-198 7th St

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Moving of artifacts

Voyager (Airplane)

Airplanes

Trucks

Event

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_9693