Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum

Voisin Type 8 and Albatros D.Va on the second floor balcony in front of the WWI Gallery 208 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC. April 8 2024. Smithsonian photo by Mark Avino

National Air and Space Museum Prepares For Opening of New WWI Gallery

July 18, 2024 Adam Estes 1

The National Air and Space Museum (NASM) of the Smithsonian Institution has been undergoing its most extensive renovation since its opening on July 1, 1976. As part of this phase, the museum will unveil a new version of the World War I aviation gallery, now named World War I: The Birth of Military Aviation. […]

The Smithsonian’s Italian Thunderbolt

June 3, 2024 Adam Estes 7

By Adam Estes Among WWII aviation enthusiasts, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) is renowned for possessing some of the rarest German and Japanese aircraft of that conflict, many of which are […]

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National Air and Space Museum Reveals Names of the First U.S. Women to Officially Fly Combat Missions

January 3, 2024 Moreno Aguiari 0

PRESS RELEASE The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has revealed for the first time the names of the first U.S. women military pilots to officially fly combat missions, nearly 30 years after the military […]

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The National Air and Space Museum is Transforming

October 17, 2023 Moreno Aguiari 0

The National Air and Space Museum is undergoing a monumental multi-year renovation, which began in 2018. Transforming every visitor’s experience, the museum will use creative and dynamic techniques to engage visitors while they are at […]

NASM’s New World War II In The Air Gallery

June 21, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 0

As many will recall, the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum (NASM) has been undergoing a multi-year, multimillion dollar overhaul of its entire campus on the Mall in Washington, DC. One of the key galleries […]

Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center Reopening on May 5th, 2021

April 24, 2021 Moreno Aguiari 1

The Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia will reopen to the public on Wednesday, May 5th, 2021; an auspicious date which coincides with the 60th anniversary of Alan Shepard becoming […]

Pilot Reunited With C-130 He Flew to Escape Saigon 45 Years Ago

April 8, 2020 Moreno Aguiari 0

About six months ago, we noted the arrival, by road, of a combat veteran Lockheed Hercules at the National Warplane Museum in Geneseo, New York. This was C-130A 57-460, which had been a part of the Smithsonian’s […]

Hail Columbia – Apollo 11 Capsule Coming Home to NASM

February 6, 2020 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 1

While only tangentially related to warbirds, it is hard to imagine that any of us weren’t keenly aware of the celebrations last year regarding the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landings made by the […]

New Aircraft On Display at NASM’s Udvar-Hazy Center

December 27, 2017 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 2

Article by Richard Mallory Allnutt In recent weeks, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum has added three new aircraft to its public exhibition space at their Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia. The first […]

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Smithsonian’s Udvar-Hazy Center Features Two New Aircraft

March 16, 2016 Richard Mallory Allnutt (Chief Editor) 10

In the damp, early morning darkness on March 15th, staff at the Smithsonian’s National Air & Space Museum wheeled two new exhibits out onto the main display hangar’s floor at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in […]