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Arts & Leisure
Museums

• MUSEUM OF AVIATION • such as the B-1B bomber, the SR-71 Blackbird, World War II aircraft including a Flying Tigers
the U-2 Dragon Lady, and the F-15 Eagle. P-40 Warhawk, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, a B-29
The Museum of Aviation welcomes
The museum has exhibits in four buildings bomber, and a P-51 Mustang. Visitors can
more than 500,000 visitors annually, making
spanning the last seven decades of flight. also view the EC-135 once used by General
it the second most visited museum in the
Department of Defense, and one of only seven Spectacular aircraft displays focus on the history Norman Schwarzkopf in Operation Desert
aviation museums in the U.S. to be accredited of the U.S. Air Force and Robins Air Force Base, Storm. New attractions include a Vietnam
by the American Association of Museums. including an F-80C, the first on-line jet fighter War-era F-4D Phantom MiG killer, an A-10
Located next to Robins Air Force Base on used in the Air Force; a U-2 spy plane once Thunderbolt, an F-105D Thunderchief, a
a beautiful 51-acre site, the museum is the flown off an aircraft carrier; a record-setting SR- C-130E cargo aircraft, and an MH-53 special
second largest museum in the U.S. Air Force, 71 Blackbird spy plane; a Lockheed VC-140 used operations helicopter that saw sustained
with a collection of more than 80 aircraft, by President Lyndon Johnson; and a C-54 that combat operations in the Middle East.
missiles, and cockpits dating from a replica flew supplies during the Berlin Airlift. Exhibits include the Flying Tigers, the China
of an early 1896 glider to modern-era aircraft The museum also has a B-1B bomber and Burma India “Hump” pilots, the World War II

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