National Museum of the U.S. Air Force

The Free National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is the world's largest and oldest military aviation museum and a Must-See in Dayton, with nearly 1 million annual visitors. Be amazed as you explore 19 acres of indoor exhibits featuring over 360 aerospace vehicles! Don't miss the co-located National Aviation Hall of Fame honoring aviation and aerospace pioneers.

You can learn more about current and upcoming events at the museum's website.

Some of What You Can See & Do at the Museum!   

Explore Aviation's Past, Present, and Future

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force features more than 360 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid 19 acres of indoor exhibit space. Explore the numerous galleries: Early Years; WWII; Korean War; SEA War; Cold War, Missile; R and D; Global Reach, Space; and Presidential Galleries. Experience the Air Park and Memorial Park. There is SO MUCH to see!

Exhibits are arranged chronologically so it’s easy to visit the areas that interest you most. 

• Examine a Wright Brothers plane 

• Sit in a jet cockpit 

• Walk through a NASA shuttle crew compartment trainer 

• Board and tour four of nine Presidential airplanes including the plane that flew Kennedy's body back from Dallas and upon which Lyndon Johnson was sworn in as President.  

• Stand in awe of the iconic Memphis Belle or the world’s only permanent public display of a B-2 stealth bomber.

Or, take in one of the multiple daily movies at the Air Force Museum Theatre’s new state-of-the-art D3D Cinema showing a wide range of films on a massive 80-foot by 60-foot screen.

Satisfy your hunger at the Museum’s cafeteria (where you can even try out freeze-dried ‘astronaut ice cream!’), or shop for one-of-a-kind aviation gifts in the Museum’s impressive gift shop.

The newer (opened in 2016) fourth hangar, a 224,000 square foot, climate-controlled building is a dedicated gallery space presenting the Air Force's past, present and future in space and consolidates the presidential and research and development aircraft.  The fourth hangar also houses aircraft such as the C-141C Hanoi Taxi and the C-130E.

1100 Spaatz Street

Gate 28B, enter on Springfield St.

Wright-Patterson AFB

Dayton, Ohio 45433

937-255-3286 Ext. 331

www.nationalmuseum.af.mil

 (937) 255-3286