Strategic Air and Space Museum

Blackbird at the Strategic Air and Space Museum

Strategic Air Command logo

The Strategic Air and Space Museum is an aviation museum in Ashland , Nebraska .

history

The museum was founded in 1959 as the Strategic Aerospace Museum on Offutt Air Force Base , but was soon renamed the Strategic Air Command Museum . As such, it documented the history of Strategic Air Command and exhibited many of the aircraft flown by the SAC. In 1998 the SAC Museum moved to the place where it is still located today, in a 30 million expensive, approx. 3000 m² building near Ashland, directly on Interstate 80 . In 2001 the name was changed again, since then the museum has been called Strategic Air and Space Museum .

collection

A Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is shown in an atrium . In two halls, the museum also presents aircraft from the Second World War and the Cold War , including:

• bomber
  • one of four still existing Convair B-36 Peacemakers
  • one of the two remaining Rockwell B-1A Lancers
  • a Boeing B-47E Stratojet
  • a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress
  • a Convair B-58 Hustler

• Reconnaissance aircraft:
  • a Lockheed U-2
  • a Boeing EC-135
  • a North American RB-45C tornado

• Fighter planes:
  • one of two McDonnell XF-85 Goblins produced
  • a Republic F-84F Thunderstreak
  • a McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
  • a MiG-21 Fishbed with markings of the North Vietnamese Air Force

• Others:
  • The command module of AS-201 , the Apollo spacecraft's first unmanned test flight.
  • an X-38

financing

The museum is a private non-profit organization , so it does not receive any government funding. The museum is financed to more than 70% by entrance fees, sales in the museum shop and membership fees of the museum club as well as the rental of the museum for larger events.

Web links

Commons : Strategic Air and Space Museum  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official Homepage (Engl.)

Coordinates: 41 ° 1'5 "  N , 96 ° 19'12.2"  W.