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Aerospatiale AS316 Alouette III
Today hospital-based helicopter ambulance services all over the world save hundreds of lives every day, but in 1972, there was just one, and it was in Denver, Colorado.
Air & Space Museum
Bell UH-1M Iroquois “Huey”
One of the most iconic symbols of the Vietnam War is the Bell UH-1 “Huey” helicopter. Hueys served throughout the conflict as troop and cargo carriers, air ambulances, and gunships with the US Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps.
Air & Space Museum
Boeing B-52B Stratofortress
Few other military aircraft have been in service as long as the Boeing B-52. First flown in 1952, the B-52 is still active in the US Air Force and is expected to remain in service for at least another 20 years.
Air & Space Museum
NASA HL-20/Dream Chaser®
Shortly after the first flights of the Space Shuttle (in the early 1980s), NASA began engineering studies for a smaller spaceplane. If the Shuttle was the big semi-truck taking large cargo into orbit, the HL-20 would be like a more economical van or ...
Air & Space Museum
Grumman F-14A Tomcat
The F-14 Tomcat played a leading role in the 1986 movie “Top Gun.” The Navy needed an airplane to protect its surface fleets from hostile aircraft and anti-ship missiles at long range. After a naval version of the Air Force’s F-111 fighter bomb...
Air & Space Museum
Lest We Forget: WWII
This evocative sculpture by Fredric Arnold is a memorial and tribute to the American airmen who died in World War II. The figures are composites of other pilots in his squadron when he flew Lockheed P-38s from North Africa. The grouping strives to ca...
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