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While Virginia, as a destination for aviation, can seem a shadow of Washington, with its world reknowned National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, half of this magnificent facility is actually located in Virginia-it Similarly, and many other state, albeit smaller, monuments Aviation offers major focuses, from barnstorming airfields space capsules.

The National Air and the second installation of the Space Museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is located in Chantilly, Virginia near Washington Dulles International Airport. Built to preserve and display the remaining 80 percent of the collection of aerospace too large and too numerous, or the existing structure on the National Mall or the Paul E. Garber Preservation and Restoration Facility in Suitland, Maryland, the modern building, hangar appearance on behalf of International Lease Finance Corporation and President and CEO Steven F. Udvar - Hazy in recognition of its 65 million dollars in donations, has pioneered October 25, 2000, when Hazy had turned the first shovel. The project ultimately cost $ 311 million for design, site infrastructure and building, and requiring a construction crew 600 men, required nearly three years to complete before the first of several opening ceremonies might have place.

The first of them in the middle of the first snowstorm of the season took place on December 3, 2003 and resulted in special, pre-public "Recognition Day" held for sponsors, donors and National Air and Space Society members. The event, ruled by a military ceremony in the Star Spangled Banner and a speech by the tributary Museum Director Gen. Jack Dailey, had led a one-day series of programs and the inauguration of most planes exposed.

The openings of other museums, including the "Salute to Military Aviation Veterans" gala opening "and dedication" Museum ", preceded the actual opening of the public, held on December 15, 2003 The celebration of the centennial of the Wright Brothers' First Powered, sustained and controlled flight of heavier than air at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

Divided into two main areas, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center presents a collection of 141 aircraft, 148 large space artifacts, and more than 1,500 smaller items. The first area, the Boeing Aviation Hangar, measures 986 feet long, 248 feet wide and 103 feet high, and aircraft displays on three levels, while the second, James S. McDonnell Hangar, is relatively long, 262 feet, 180 feet wide and 80 feet high. The 164-meter high Donald D. Engen observation tower overlooking the Dulles International Airport and the 479-seat IMAX Theater completes the experience.

The exhibits are grouped into 16 broad categories: vertical flight, Sport Aviation, Business Aviation, Commercial Aviation, Aviation pre-1920, Korea and Vietnam, the Cold War aviation, military aviation modern, acrobatics, German WWII, aviation, ultralight, aviation military 1920-1940, spaceflight, space science, applications of satellites and rockets and missiles.

At the beginning of aviation is represented by devices like the Langley Aerodrome A, the Nieuport 28C-1, and the SPAD XVI, while World War II includes drawings North American P-51C Mustang, the Boeing B -29 Superfortress "Enola Gay", which had dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, ending the war. Naval aviation is represented by devices like the Vought F4U-1D Corsair and the Grumman F6F Hellcat-3. Among the combatants are the pure-jet Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star, the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II, the Intruder Grumman F-14 Tomcat, and the Grumman A-6B.

Aircraft museum of transportation are plunger type, pure-jet, subsonic, supersonic and Designs, some of which are very rare, as the German Focke-Wulfe Fw 190E, a quad motor tail.