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San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDASM, formerly the San Diego Aerospace Museum) is an aviation and space exploration museum in San Diego, California, United States. The museum is located in Balboa Park and is housed in the former Ford Building, which is listed on the US National Register of Historic Places.[5] SDASM was established by articles of incorporation on October 12, 1961 and opened to the public on February 15, 1963.[1]

It contains many original and reproductions of historic aircraft and spacecraft,[6][7] including:

Lockheed A-12 Oxcart
Bowlus SP-1 Paper Wing - replica[8]
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
Montgomery 1911 Evergreen glider
General Atomics MQ-1 Predator UAV (tail number 0018)
Ryan Aeronautical Firebee
Northrop Grumman Global Hawk (1/2 scale model)
1902 Wright Glider (reproduction)
Wright Flyer (reproduction, currently not on display)
Vin Fiz Flyer (reproduction, at Gillespie Field annex)
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)
Ryan Aeronautical X-13 (at Gillespie Field annex)

The museum was first opened to the public on February 15, 1963 in the Food and Beverage Building, which had been built in 1915 for the Panama–California Exposition.[10] In 1965 the museum was moved to the larger Electrical Building.

On February 22, 1978 the Electrical Building and the Museum were destroyed in an arson fire.[11][12] Several one-of-a-kind aircraft were destroyed, including the Beecraft Wee Bee, the world's lightest aircraft, and her sister craft the Queen Bee. A reproduction of the Spirit of St. Louis, built in 1967 by some of the same people who built the original, was also destroyed, along with more than 50 other aircraft, an extensive collection of artifacts and archives, and the International Aerospace Hall of Fame.[12][13] Owen Clarke, the museum's executive director, said of the $4 million in losses, "This is unbelievably tragic. When you've spent that length of time acquiring history, building something up to where it had international prestige, then see it all disappear in a couple of hours, what else can it be?"[14]

2001 Pan American Plaza, San Diego, CA
Phone: 619.234.8291

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