San Diego Aerospace Museum facts for kids

Museum entrance, showing a F2Y Sea Dart on the left and an A-12 Oxcart on the right.

San Diego Aerospace Museum is an aircraft and space exploration museum in San Diego, California, USA. It contains many original and copies of old aircraft and spacecraft, including:

• A Lockheed A-12 Oxcart
• A Ford Trimotor
• A Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XVI
• A North American P-51 Mustang
• The Apollo 9 command module "Gumdrop"
• A SPAD VII.c.1
• A Nieuport 28
• A Curtiss JN4 Jenny
• A Curtiss P-40 Warhawk
• A North American F-86 Sabre
• A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 Fagot
• A Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Fresco
• A McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II
• A Bell AH-1 Cobra
• A PBY-5A Catalina

Images for kids

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  Entrance of the Ford Building with Firestone Singing Fountains, 1935.

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  The San Diego Air and Space Museum as seen from overhead in 2013.

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  The Apollo 9 Command Module Gumdrop flown in 1969 by James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart in preparation of the first lunar landing missions

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  Replica Ho 229

See also

In Spanish: Museo aeroespacial de San Diego para niños