National Museum of the United States Air Force

Check out this footage of a Bowers Fly Baby (Junkers CL1 1/2 scale) from the 11th WWI Dawn Patrol Rendezvous. More footage from the event on our YouTube channel. #WWIDawnPatrol #avgeek #WWI #gopro source

On this day in 2015, museum restoration crews moved the Grumman X-29A, the Douglas X-3 Stiletto and the Bell Helicopter Textron XV-3 into the museum’s fourth building. These three aircraft can be seen in the R&D Gallery. Visit the links for info X-29A: http://bit.ly/2QlBFnp X-3: http://bit.ly/2PrXZ1f XV-3: http://bit.ly/2Pawz0x #avgeek source

Museum restoration crews lowered the Curtiss JN-4D Jenny from its hanging position on Nov. 7, 2018. Plans call for the Avro 504K to hang above the JN-4D after the restoration process is completed. Fact scheet: http://bit.ly/2Owymb8 source

When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, Capt. Frederick Libby of Sterling, Colo., was a member of the British Royal Flying Corps. To celebrate American entry into the war, he cut two streamers from a U.S. flag, tied them to the struts of his airplane, and flew them across enemy lines. After […]

Eddie Rickenbacker speaks at the Air Force Museum 1961 to a WWI reunion group. Audio mixed with historic photos of Eddie from WWI but no footage of the speech is available. source

Interview with the Ford twins, Bob and Dick, who both served during WWII and recently visited this museum as part of the 8th Air Force reunion. source

Nov. 22, 2018, marked the 55th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. SAM 26000, Kennedy’s Air Force One, is on display in the museum’s Presidential Gallery. He flew aboard SAM 26000 to Dallas, Texas, where he was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963 — and it was on this airplane that Vice President […]

USAF Lt. Col. (Ret.) Dick Ford full interview 2018 at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. (Raw Interview) Dick, along with his brother Bob, are mirror twins. Bob also served in WWII as a flight instructor. The twins were here at the museum as part of the 8th Air Force reunion. source

Bob Hoover Full Interview April 2014 NMUSAF Hoover spoke about his friends Jimmy Doolittle and Harrison Ford. He also spoke about stealing a German aircraft in WWII, and time with Chuck Yeager. source

De Havilland C-7A Caribou being painted by restoration crews at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force in Jan 2019. An oakleaf cluster on the AF Outstanding Unit emblem on the DeHavilland C-7A Caribou in the Southeast Asia War Gallery was painted on by Casey Simmons. source