Museum of Flight - Aircraft On Display

Aircraft On Display

The Museum of Flight has more than 150 aircraft in its collection, including:

  • the first flight-worthy Boeing 747 airliner, the City of Everett. Its registration number is N7470, and it was named after the city of Everett, Washington. Its first flight was on February 9, 1969.
  • the first presidential jet, VC-137B SAM 970, which served in the presidential fleet from 1959 to 1996 (open for walkthrough)
  • British Airways Concorde number 214, registration G-BOAG, the only Concorde west of the Appalachians (open for walkthrough).
  • a Caproni Ca.20, the world's first fighter plane from World War I. The one on display at the Museum of Flight was the only one ever built.
  • Lockheed D-21 unmanned reconnaissance drone, atop the only surviving M-21 a variant of the Lockheed A-12.
  • The surviving cockpit section of a Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird that crashed in 1968.
  • the prototype Boeing 737.
  • the second Lockheed Martin/Boeing DarkStar Tier III unmanned vehicle prototype
  • the Gossamer Albatross II human-powered aircraft.
  • one of five Aerocars, automobiles with detachable wings and propeller
  • LearAvia Lear Fan prototype N626BL
  • one of only two remaining airworthy Douglas DC-2s.
  • the only surviving Boeing 80A, flown by Bob Reeve in Alaska.
  • An American Airlines Boeing 727.
  • An ex-Trans-Canada Air Lines Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation located originally at the Toronto Pearson International Airport which was purchased in a controversial transaction in 2005. It is currently on display at the airpark.
  • The Lamson L-106 Alcor, the world's first pressurized sailplane.

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