Museum of Flight Main Gallery - Seattle, WA 2010
The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum at King County International Airport/Boeing Field. It has an Airpark across the street on Marginal Way with a restoration facility at Paine Field in Everett, WA. The Museum has many noteworthy aircraft in its 80 plus collection including the first presidential jet, VC-137B SAM 970, which served in the presidential fleet from 1959 to 1996, the prototype 737, The City of Everett: The first flight-worthy Boeing 747, and British Airways Concorde number 214, registration G-BOAG, one of 5 Aerocars, the only surviving Boeing 80A, An ex-Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation, an American Airlines Boeing 727, an SR-71, and much more. It has the entire Boeing Red Barn historical factory located adjacent to the main glass hall. We were lucky enough to spend the day with Boeing's Chief Archivist Mark Lombardi.
For more information on this fantastic museum, visit www.museumofflight.org/