San Diego Air & Space Museum - Collection

Collection

It contains many original and reproductions of historic aircraft and spacecraft, including:

  • Lockheed A-12 Oxcart
  • Bowlus SP-1 Paper Wing - replica
  • Convair YF2Y Sea Dart
  • Apollo 9 command module "Gumdrop"
  • Spirit of St. Louis replica (Spirit 3 was built after the 1978 fire)
  • Curtiss 1912 amphibious aircraft
  • General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV (tail number 0018)
  • Ryan Aeronautical Firebee
  • Northrop Grumman Global Hawk (1/2 scale model)
  • Wright Flyer (reproduction, currently not on display)
  • Vin Fiz Flyer (reproduction)
  • Ford Trimotor
  • Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI
  • North American P-51D Mustang
  • SPAD VII.c.1
  • Nieuport 28
  • Curtiss JN4 "Jenny" (Currently returned to restoration to reskin the wings)
  • Curtiss P-40E Warhawk (No longer on display)
  • North American F-86F "Sabre" (at Gillespie Field annex)
  • Mitsubishi A6M7 "Zero-sen"
  • Grumman F-14 Tomcat (at Gillespie Field annex)
  • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 (at Gillespie Field annex)
  • Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 (It is in fact a Chinese Shenyang J-5.)
  • McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II
  • Bell AH-1E Cobra
  • PBY-5A Catalina
  • Horten Ho 229 (model)
  • P-26 Peashooter (currently on display)
  • Vought F4U Corsair (currently on display)

SDASM has two restoration facilities, one on site, and the other located at Gillespie Field. The Gillespie Field Annex is open to the public with numerous aircraft on display outdoors, a Convair SM-65 Atlas ICBM, museum model shop, and a fantastic restoration shop.

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