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Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum
Airforce museum in Ashland, Nebraska From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum is a museum focusing on aircraft and nuclear missiles of the United States Air Force during the Cold War. It is located near Ashland, Nebraska, along Interstate 80 southwest of Omaha. The objective of the museum is to preserve and display historic aircraft, missiles, and space vehicles, and provide educational resources.[2] The museum was established in 1959 and was originally located on the Offutt Air Force Base.
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The Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum was a vision of Colonel A. A. Arnhym, who commonly spoke about the importance of such museum. Thomas Power, former commander-in-chief of Strategic Air Command, requested that Colonel Arnhym ask for permission to start the museum. Arnhym's request was accepted and the museum was founded in 1959 as the Strategic Air Command Museum.[3]
It was originally located on the Offutt Air Force Base near Bellevue, which was the headquarters of the Strategic Air Command from 1948 to 1992. It began operations with a single airplane as the Strategic Aerospace Museum. In 1970, ownership of the museum was transferred from the Air Force to the State of Nebraska.[1]
By 1995, the United States Air Force Museum determined that the aircraft had deteriorated and was considering moving them to other locations. Three individuals, Robert Daugherty, Walter Scott Jr. and Lee Seemann, contributed $4 million each as part of a capital campaign for a new museum. Other contributions eventually raised the total to $32 million.[4]
On 16 May 1998, the museum moved indoors to a new facility in Ashland, that allowed the aircraft to be protected from the elements to which they had previously been exposed to.[5] The museum is made up of two buildings containing a total size of 300,000-square-foot (28,000 m2).[2]
In 2001, museum officially became the Strategic Air & Space Museum as part of an increased focus on space, but the name change was unpopular with veterans.[4] On 25 June 2015, the museum announced another name change to the Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum.[6]
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Collection
on exterior of museum
Aircraft
- Avro Vulcan B.2 XM573[7]
- Boeing DB-17P Flying Fortress 44-83559 (Configured as a B-17G of the 96th Bomb Group)[8]
- Boeing B-47E Stratojet 52-1412[9]
- Boeing EC-135C 63-8049[10][11][12]
- Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter 53-0198[13]
- Boeing RB-52B Stratofortress 52-8711[14]
- Boeing TB-29 Superfortress 44-84076[15]
- Convair B-36J 52-2217[16]
- Convair B-58A Hustler 61-2059[17]
- Convair F-102A Delta Dagger 54-1405[18]
- Convair T-29A 50-0190[19]
- Douglas A-26B Invader 44-34665[20]
- Douglas C-47A Skytrain 43-48098[21]
- Douglas C-54D Skymaster 42-72724[22]
- Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar 51-8024L[23]
- General Atomics MQ-1C Gray Eagle[24]
- General Dynamics FB-111A Aardvark 68-0267[25]
- Grumman HU-16B Albatross 51-0006[26]
- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk 85-0831[27]
- Lockheed T-33A 58-0548[28]
- Lockheed U-2C 56-6701[29]
- Lockheed SR-71A Blackbird 61-7964[30]
- Martin B-57E Canberra 55-4244[31]
- McDonnell XF-85 Goblin 46-0524[32]
- McDonnell F-101B Voodoo 59-0462[33]
- McDonnell RF-4C Phantom II 65-0903[34]
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21F-13 60-2105[35][36]
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23
- North American JTB-25N Mitchell 44-30363[37]
- North American TB-25N Mitchell 44-28738 – Fuselage only[38]
- North American F-86H Sabre 53-1375[39]
- North American RB-45C Tornado 48-0017[40]
- North American T-39A Sabreliner 62-4487[41]
- Piasecki CH-21B 52-8676[42]
- Republic F-84F Thunderstreak 51-1714[43]
- Republic F-105D Thunderchief 61-0069 – Located at I-80W Mile Marker 428.2[44]
- Rockwell B-1A Lancer 76-0174[45]
- Sikorsky H-19B Chickasaw 53-4426[46]
Rockets and missiles
Spacecraft
- Apollo Block I Command Module CSM-009 – Flown on AS-201[48]
- Apollo Boilerplate Command Module[49]
- NASA X-38[50]
- Project Vela Satellite[51]
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