The Museum of Flight

The Museum of flight is the world’s largest independent air and space museum. Located at Seattle’s oldest airport, it displays over 160 airplanes and spacecraft on a 23-acre campus. The museum’s six buildings include the original Boeing Aircraft factory.

As one of the region’s top attractions, we offer flight simulators and dozens of fun, interactive exhibits and family activities. The “Great Gallery” is a breathtaking, 6-story glass building with 43 aircraft from the 1920s to the present, including a rare M-21 Blackbird spy plane and jet fighters from the Korean and Vietnam wars. Not to mention the some thrilling full-motion and 3D flight simulators!

The gallery is also home to the Museum’s unique displays about the early Space Age and the race to Moon, including exhibits of the long-lost rocket engines used on Apollo 12 and 16.

The original Boeing airplane factory is a walk through Boeing history; while in the adjacent building, dramatic galleries house 28 fighter planes and rare personal artifacts from World Wars I and II.

The West Campus is a voyage to the space shuttle era, the current space age and the evolution of large aircraft. The Space Gallery looks at the space shuttle story and today’s New Space Race; it is also the permanent home to NASA's Space Shuttle Trainer—used by every shuttle astronaut.

Outside is the 3-acre Aviation Pavilion, with its World War II bombers and airliners from the 1930s to the present. Stroll through a Concorde, the first 747, a Dreamliner and the first Air Force One jet.

And finally, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park and its centerpiece B-52. Always open and always free, a place for quiet reflection to honor those who served.

Exhibits

The Museum of Flight is now featuring the Northwest premiere of the exhibition, The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, a retrospective of The Walt Disney Studios’ extensive contributions to the Allies’ World War II effort. With hundreds of rare artifacts, illustrations and films on display, this immersive exhibition illuminates a remarkable period of the fabled studio. The exhibition was created in partnership with The Museum of Flight and The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco, where it recently finished its inaugural 9-month presentation to rave reviews. The Walt Disney Studios and World War II is free admission to all Museum Members and ticket holders.

Throughout duration of the exhibition’s run the Museum will also offer public educational programs and lectures related to the World War II, plus private event experiences that are directly engaged with the exhibition.

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