Museum of Flight (Seattle)
The Museum of Flight is a museum on Boeing Field in Seattle in the northwestern United States . The sponsor is The Museum of Flight Foundation Board of Trustees .
history
The history of the museum goes back to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation founded in 1965 .
Exhibits
The museum displays a number of original exhibits on the history of aviation . Special exhibits are the first ever built Boeing 747 , one of the 1950s as Air Force One used Boeing 707 , one of the first Boeing 787-8 , and a Concorde of British Airways .
Propeller aircraft (selection)
- Beech Starship 1 Model 2000A (on loan in the Future of Flight exhibition at Paine Field airfield )
- Boeing 80A-1
- Boeing 247D
- Caproni about 20
- Curtiss P-40N Warhawk
- Yakovlev Yak-9U
- Messerschmitt Bf 109 E-3
Jet aircraft (selection)
Gliders (selection)
Web links
Red Barn , Boeing's oldest manufacturing facility
Commons : Museum of Flight, Seattle - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- The museum website (English)
Coordinates: 47 ° 31 '7.5 " N , 122 ° 17' 48.7" W.