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  • Writer's pictureDeborah Kade

Pima Air and Space Museum Tuscon, Arizona

Updated: Dec 20, 2019

November 30, 2019


The Pima Air & Space Museum, located in Tucson, Arizona, is one of the world's largest non government funded aerospace museums.


The museum features a display of nearly 300 aircraft spread out over 80 acres, (320,000 m²), on a campus occupying 127 acres, (610,000 m²). It has also been the home to the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame since 1991.





A large number of the museum's aircraft are displayed outside with the remainder located in one of the museum's four display hangars. In addition to the display hangars, the museum has a restoration hangar.










Opened to the public in May 1976 with 48 aircraft then on display, the museum's main hangar houses an SR-71A Blackbird, an A-10 Warthog, a United States Air Force Through the Years exhibit, and a mock-up of a control tower.




























Sikorsky CH-54A

Tarhe (Skycrane)

Heavy Lift Transport

1966- Present









Mil

Mi-24D

Hind D

Attack Helicopter

1972- present











Boeing B-52D

Stratofortress Bomber

1956- 1983











AVRO

AEW. Mk. 2

Shackleton

Airborne Early Warning

1951-1991











Boeing

KC-97G

Stratofreighter

Aerial Tanker

1950-1978






















Douglas

B-26K

Invader

Attack Bomber

1944-1969

A-26A

A means attack


















During 2015, Boeing donated to the museum the second 787 aircraft to be built. It is exhibited in the colors of the 787 customer, ANA.