Historic Aircraft Museums

A diverse collection of aircraft displayed in museums, showcasing vintage planes, gliders, and historical aviation from various eras.

USA, New York, Elmira. National Soaring Museum interior with historic gliders (Editorial Use Only)

Aircraft Consolidated B-24 Liberator, Museum of the Warsaw Uprising, Muzeum Powstania Warszawskiego, Warsaw, Mazowieckie Voivodeship, Poland, Europe

USA, New York, Elmira. National Soaring Museum interior with historic gliders (Editorial Use Only)

The Science Museum is a major museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington, London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of London's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually.

USA, Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, Pioneers of Flight, 1930's DC-3 airliner (Editorial Use Only)

USA, New York, Elmira. National Soaring Museum interior with historic gliders (Editorial Use Only)

New Zealand, South Island, Christchurch, Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, WW2-era Supermarine Spitfire Mk. XVIE

Sopwith Triplane, WW1 fighter replica at Main Hangar at Aero Space Museum of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Science Museum, South Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

royal air force museum hendon detail of plane and air traffic control

USA, Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, rocket gallery (Editorial Use Only)

"STINSON SR RELIANT" (1933). Museo del Vuelo. Seattle. Estado de Washington. Estados Unidos.

People touring National Museum of Naval Aviation Pensacola, Florida

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum airplanes Washington D.C.

Canada, Alberta, Calgary: Aero Space Museum of Calgary, Interior Aviation Display

History Art Architecture Aviation was symbolic image.

England, Shropshire, Royal Airforce Cosford Museum, Display of Historical Aircraft

UK, England, London, Hendon, The Royal Airforce Museum, Display of Vintage Aircraft

USA, New York, Finger Lakes Region, Hammondsport, Glenn H, Curtiss Museum, dedicated to early US aviation pioneer and resident Glenn Curtiss

Sweden, Linkoping, Flygvapen Museum, Swedish Air Force Museum, WW2-era Swedish SAAB B18 bomber aircraft

A picture of the Lisunov Li-2 inside the main hangar of the Polish Aviation Museum

France, Normandy, Caen, Le Memorial Peace Museum, museum lobby with World War II British Hawker Typhoon fighter aircraft.

USA, Delaware, Dover, Dover Air Force Base, Air Mobility Command Museum, WW2-era C-47 transport airplane

USA, New York, Elmira. National Soaring Museum interior with historic gliders (Editorial Use Only)

Maine, Owls Head, Owls Head Transportation Museum, WW1-era, US Curtiss JN-4 Jenny with British SE-5A fighter

New Zealand, South Island, Christchurch, Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, WW2-era Curtiss P-40E Warhawk

Canada, Nova Scotia, Kingston, Greenwood Aviation Museum at CFB Greenwood, Canadian military drone

Smithsonian Air and Space Museum airplanes Washington D.C.

USA, Virginia, Herndon, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, air museum, elevated view

Italy, Lombardy, Malpensa Airport

USA, Maine, Kennebunkport, Owls Head Transportation Museum, 1930s-era biplanes

England, London-Hendon, RAF Museum London, Milestones of Flight Gallery, WW2-era British DeHavilland Mosquito, aircraft made of plywood (Editorial use Only)

England, London-Hendon, RAF Museum London, Milestones of Flight Gallery, WW2-era British DeHavilland Mosquito, aircraft made of plywood

The Aviation Museum, Akureyri, Iceland

Sweden, Linkoping, Flygvapen Museum, Swedish Air Force Museum, WW2-era Swedish FFVS J22 fighter aircraft

USA, Kansas, Wichita, Kansas Aviation Museum, Stearman biplane, manufactured in Wichita in the 1930's-era

Pharaoh's Boat (Solar Barque) found buried in a pit at the foot of the Great Pyramid in 1954 by Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh. Boat is considered the oldest planked vessel in the world. (Editorial Usage Only)

EAA replica of a 1903 Wright Brothers first successful aircraft

USA, Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis (Editorial Use Only)

History Art Architecture Aviation was symbolic image.

Germany, Baden-Wurttemburg, Karlsruhe, ZKM, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, modern art museum in former WW1-era munitions factory, exhibit of conceptual art with Luftwaffe Starfighter jet aircraft

Liberal, Kansas, The Mid-America Air Museum. The museum displays over 100 aircraft. The Ryan PT-22 Recruit was a training aircraft during World War II

USA, Virginia, Triangle, National Museum of the Marine Corps, Leatherneck Gallery with WW1-era aircraft

Prop Military Fixed Wing Aviat Airplanes Seversky P-35 USAF Museum U.S. Air Force

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - The aft section of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, that will take space shuttle Endeavour from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles for public display.

Airplanes inside Museum of Flight.

Australia, Canberra, Australian War Memorial Museum, ww2-era, US Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk fighter aircraft

Air Force One 2700, a Boeing 707 which was the presidential aircraft that carried President Kennedy's body back from Dallas,Texas after the assassination. Now at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Canadian Museum of Aviation, WW1-era Sopwith Snipe aircraft

Avro Arrow jet fighter, 2/3 sized replica being built at the Avro Museum in Springbank near Calgary Alberta.

USA, Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, Unmanned Aviation, RQ-3A Dark Star and MQ-1L Predator A drones (Editorial Use Only)

Germany, Bavaria, Munich-Oberschleissheim, Deutsches Museum Aviation Collection, housed at former NATO airfield, early aviation gallery

UK, England, London, Hendon, The Royal Airforce Museum, Display of Vintage Aircraft

Helicopters at the National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar Hazy Center, USA

USA, Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, 1903 Wright flyer (Editorial Use Only)

Virginia Air and Space Center Hampton Virginia

MIG-21 SMT aircraft, a relatively rare version in Germany, left behind in 1993 by the Soviet air forces during their withdrawal, in a hangar at the Altenburg Nobitz Airfield, Nobitz, Altenburg, Thuringia, Germany, Europe

USA, Maine, Kennebunkport, Owls Head Transportation Museum, 1930s-era biplanes

Inside the Air Force One Pavilion at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, CA

New Zealand, South Island, Christchurch, Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, DC-3 Dakota RNZAF roundel with kiwi

HIDROAVION PLUS ULTRA CON EL QUE SE CRUZO EL ATLANTICO SUR EN 1926 DESDE PALOS DE MOGUER A BUENOS AIRES.

USA, Connecticut, Windsor Locks, New England Air Museum, Sikorsky Aircraft is a major Connecticut-based company, Sikorsky VS-44A Flying Boat, WW2-era

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Canadian Museum of Aviation, WW2-era Hawker Sea Fury fighter

Science and Technology Gallery, National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Workers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Skid Strip stand next to the Pegasus XL Expendable Launch Vehicle underneath the Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft. The Pegasus will be transported to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility for testing and verification. The Pegasus will undergo three flight simulations prior to its scheduled launch in late January 2003. The Pegasus XL will carry NASA's Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) into orbit. Built by Orbital Sciences Space Systems Group, SORCE will study and measure solar irradiance as a source of energy in the Earth's atmosphere. .

Whitehorse's Large Dc-3 Wind Vane With Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights) Behind It.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A row of posters displays some of the history of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, that will take space shuttle Endeavour from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to Los Angeles for public display.

Group of Rust´s Flying Service DeHavilland Beaver´s docked on Lake Hood in Anchorage, Southcentral Alaska, Summer/n

Rome, Italy may 1964: Tourists exploring a museum marvel at a large, vintage steam engine, showcasing industrial history

USA, Virginia, Herndon, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, air museum, WW2-era, Japanese Seiran, submarine based floatplane

Sweden, Linkoping, Flygvapen Museum, Swedish Air Force Museum, contemporary Swedish SAAB JAS-37 Viggen fighter aircraft

France, Picardy, Somme Battlefields, Albert, locally produced 1933 Potez 36 airplane at the town train station.

EGYPT, CAIRO, GIZA, SOLAR BOAT MUSEUM, SUN BARQUE OF CHEOPS (138'LONG, 16' WIDE)

USA, Louisiana, Patterson. Weddel-Williams Air Racing Museum, 1930s-era Number 44 We Will racing airplane.

Shot of a light aircraft in a hanger

UK, Northern Ireland, County Down, Holywood, Ulster Transport Museum, trains

Helicopter Museum Bueckeburg Germany

Canada, Nova Scotia, Halifax. Maritime Museum of the Atlantic dedicated to the seafaring history of the area.

Aeroplane, Stark-Turbulent, Car and Tractor Museum Lake Constance, Gebhardsweiler, municipality of Uhldingen-Muehlhofen in the Lake Constance district, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany, Europe

royal air force museum hendon view up to planes j994

AN EF-111A aircraft is being converted from an F-111 aircraft at the Grumman Riverhead Plant, Grumman Aerospace Corporation. Base: Long Island State: New York (NY) Country: United States Of America (USA)

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Replica of WWI Morane-Saulnier L at the Guynemer pavilion, museum about WW1 flying ace fighter pilot Georges Guynemer, Poelkapelle, Flanders, Belgium, Europe

USA, Washington D.C. National Air and Space Museum, Pioneers of Flight, 1930's DC-3 airliner (Editorial Use Only)

USA, Virginia, Herndon, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, air museum, fuselage of WW2-era German Heinkel He-219 Uhu night fighter

HISTORIA AVIACION. Motor turborreactor norteamericano Pratt & Whitney JT 3 (Década años 50's). Motor turborreactor alemán BMW003 (Década años 40's). Deutsches Technikmuseum. Berlin. Alemania.

Germany, Rhineland-Pfalz, Museum Speyer, airliner display including elevated Boeing 747, interior

Technik Museum Pütnitz near Ribnitz Damgarten, Baltic coast, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany

Canada, Ontario, Ottawa, Canadian Museum of Aviation, elevated view of Norseman and Curtiss bush planes

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national maritime museum brazilian jangada and other suspended boats

Ireland, Dublin, National Museum of Ireland, The Collins Barracks, The Asgard, former yacht of writer Erskine Childers used to transport German guns to Irish nationalists in 1914

Washington, Dc. Interior Of Air And Space Museum Ground Floor

England, Dorset, Poole, Lifeboat Museum, Interior View of Historic Lifeboat

USA, Virginia, Herndon, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, air museum, first Boeing airliner, model 307 from the 1940s

Sweden, Vastragotland and Bohuslan, Gothenburg, The Aeroseum, former underground jet fighter base built during the Cold War under rock, underground aircraft bunker

USA, Kansas, Liberal, Mid-America Air Museum interior

WWII Airplane in need of repair on display at Pearl Harbor Museum

Arabia, Arabian peninsula, the Persian Gulf, United Arab Emirates (VAE), Schardscha / Sharjah, maritime museum

Canada, Nova Scotia, Baddeck, Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site, museum dedicated to inventor Alexander Graham Bell, The Silver Dart, first aircraft flown in Canada in 1909 and early hydrofoils

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