Hours:

  • 10am-5:30pm (hours may be extended during the summer)
  • Closed Christmas Day
Location:

600 Independence Ave SW, Washington, DC
Closest Metro:

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Price:
Free
Phone number:
(202)357-2700
  • The largest collection of aircraft and spacecraft in the world including:
  • The Wright Flyer, which made the first flight in 1903
  • Charles Lindbergh’s Spirit of St. Louis is here, the plane in which he flew the first solo across the Atlantic
  • Chuck Yeager’s Bell X-1 in which he made the first powered supersonic level flight.
  • The command module of Apollo 11 which landed the first mission on the moon
  • Visitors can touch a lunar rock sample
  • The original starship Enterprise from the television show