The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and area museum in the Seattle city. It is situated at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in the city of Tukwila, immediately south of Seattle. [5] It was developed in 1965 and is fully certified by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest private air and space museum worldwide, it also hosts large K-12 curricula. [6]
The museum attracts over 500,000 visitors every year, [2] and likewise serves more than 140,000 students yearly through its onsite programs: an Opposition Learning Center, an Aviation Learning Center, and a summer season camp (ACE), along with outreach programs that travel throughout Washington and Oregon. [7]
History

The Museum of Flight can trace its roots back to the Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation, which was established in 1965 to recuperate and bring back a 1929 Boeing 80A-1, which had been discovered in Anchorage, Alaska. The repair took location over a 16-year period, and after conclusion, was put on display screen as a centerpiece for the museum. In 1968, the name "Museum of Flight" first appeared in use in a 10,000 sq ft (900 m2) facility, rented at the Seattle Center. Planning began at this time for a more irreversible structure, and preliminary principles were drafted. [8]
In 1975, The William E. Boeing Red Barn was gotten for one dollar from the Port of Seattle, which had seized it after Boeing abandoned it during The second world war. The 1909 all-wooden Red Barn, the original home of the company, was barged 2 miles (3 km) up the Duwamish River to its existing area at the southwestern end of Boeing Field. [9] [10] Fundraising was slow in the late 1970s, [11] and after remediation, the two-story Red Barn was opened to the general public in 1983. [12]
That year a funding campaign was released, so capital could be raised for building of the T.A. Wilson Great Gallery. In 1987, Vice President George Bush, signed up with by four Mercury astronauts, cut the ribbon to open the facility on July 10, [12] [13] [14] with an expansive volume of 3,000,000 cubic feet (85,000 m3). The gallery's structure is built in an area frame lattice structure and holds more than 20 hanging airplane, consisting of a Douglas DC-3 weighing more than 9 heaps. [8]
The museum's education programs grew substantially with the structure of a Challenger Learning Center in 1992. This interactive exhibition permits students to experience a Space Shuttle objective. It consists of a mock-up NASA mission control, and experiments from all areas of space research.
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Completed in 1994, the 132-seat Wings Cafe and the 250-seat Skyline multipurpose banquet and conference space increased the museum's footprint to 185,000 square feet (17,200 m2). At the same time, among the museum's most commonly recognized and popular artifacts, the Lockheed M-21, a customized Lockheed A-12 Oxcart created to carry the Lockheed D-21 reconnaissance drones, [15] was put on the floor at the center of the Great Gallery, after being completely brought back. [16]
The very first jet-powered Air Force One (1959-1962, SAM 970), a Boeing VC-137B, was flown to Boeing Field in 1996