San Diego Air & Space Museum is an aviation and space exploration museum located in Balboa Park. The museum first opened in 1963, and 2005 the museum became affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution.
It is one of only ten aerospace museums in the country to have such an affiliation, and one of only two affiliated museums in San Diego.
The museum is divided into many galleries including:
- World War I Gallery – with an Albatros D.Va, a Fokker Dr.I and Fokker E.III Eindecker
- Golden Age of Flight Gallery
- World War II Gallery – with a Curtiss P-40E Warhawk, Messerschmitt Bf 109G-14, and a Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI.
- Modern Jet & Space Age Gallery – F/A-18 A Hornet “Blue Angel 1” and an Apollo Command and Service Module mock-up.
- Pavilion of Flight Gallery – with a Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17, Mercury spacecraft (mock-up), and Bell AH-1E Cobra
The restoration shop is available for tours when work is being done.
1944 Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI – San Diego Air & Space Museum
Highlights of the San Diego Air & Space Museum
- Lockheed A-12 Oxcart
- Convair YF2Y Sea Dart
- Apollo 9 command module Gumdrop
- Spirit of St. Louis replica
- Curtiss 1912 amphibious aircraft
- Montgomery 1911 Evergreen glider
- General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV
- Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI
- North American P-51D Mustang
- Mitsubishi A6M7 “Zero-sen”
- F-4S Phantom II
- Bell AH-1E Cobra
- PBY-5A Catalina
San Diego Air & Space Museum
- Museum: San Diego Air & Space Museum
- Formerly: San Diego Aerospace Museum
- City: San Diego, California
- Country: United States
- State: California
- Established: 1961
- Type: Air & Space Museum, Military & War Museum
- Location: 2001 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA, United States
San Diego Air & Space Museum – Map
San Diego Air & Space Museum – 360 Views
San Diego Air & Space Museum – 360 Views
San Diego Air & Space Museum – 360 Views
San Diego Air & Space Museum – 360 Views
San Diego Air & Space Museum – 360 Views
San Diego Air & Space Museum – 360 Views
Virtual Tour of Museums in California
- Museums in Los Angeles
- Museums in San Francisco
- Museums in Pasadena
- Museums in San Diego
Museums in San Diego
- San Diego Natural History Museum
- USS Midway Museum
- Museum of Us
- San Diego Museum of Art
- San Diego Air & Space Museum
San Diego Air & Space Museum
San Diego Air & Space Museum
Los Angeles Museums
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Getty Museum
- California Science Center
- Natural History Museum of Los Angeles
- The Broad
- Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
- Petersen Automotive Museum
- Griffith Observatory
- Autry Museum of the American West
- Japanese American National Museum
- The GRAMMY Museum
- The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens
- California African American Museum
- Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
San Diego Air & Space Museum
San Diego Air & Space Museum
Pasadena, California Museums
- Norton Simon Museum
San Francisco Museums
- Asian Art Museum – San Francisco
- De Young Museum
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Legion of Honor Museum
- Walt Disney Family Museum
- Exploratorium
San Diego Air & Space Museum
San Diego Air & Space Museum
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“Our two greatest problems are gravity and paperwork. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.”
– Wernher von Braun, Rocket Engineer
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