REEDSVILLE The Experimental Aircraft Association will host a field trip to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport is the companion facility to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum in Washington, D.C. Hundreds of historically significant air and spacecraft, along with thousands of small artifacts, are on display in an open, […]
National Air and Space Museum, American museum of aviation and space exploration, part of the Smithsonian Institution, housed in two facilities: a building on the Mall in Washington, D.C., and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles International Airport, Virginia. Together they house 60,000 artifacts and welcome more than eight million visitors a year. The National Air and Space Museum was founded in 1946 under the name National Air Museum. The first major artifact added to the museum’s collection was the biplane used for the Wright brothers’ first successful flight in 1903. In 1966 the museum began collecting items