The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is the world’s largest military aviation museum. With free admission and parking, the museum features more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force galleries present military aviation history, boasting more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles on display -- many rare and one-of-a-kind -- along with thousands of historical items and powerful sensory exhibits that bring history to life and connect the Wright brothers' legacy with today's stealth and precision technology.

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, is the world’s largest military aviation museum. With free admission and parking, the museum features more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space.

The museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. seven days a week. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. The 8th Air Force Control Tower and Nissen Hut, located in the Air Park, are closed until further notice.

The Air Force Museum Foundation, the 501(c)(3) nonprofit that is the largest external single source funder for the Museum, is financing the exhibit’s run at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, February 5 - April 27, 2025, with help from individual and corporate support. *Federal Endorsement not implied.

The National Museum of the USAF manages more than 2,900 aircraft on loan to military and civilian organizations all over the world. Occasionally these organizations contact us about aircraft they are no longer interested in borrowing. We call these aircraft “excess to need” and NMUSAF is actively looking for new homes for them.

Aircraft restoration video and interview with museum restoration specialist Casey Simmons. The Thomas-Morse Scout became the favorite single-seat training airplane for U.S. pilots during World War I. The Scout first appeared with an order for 100 S4Bs in the summer of 1917. The U.S. Army Air Service later purchased nearly 500 of a slightly modified version, the S4C. Dubbed the …

In 2003 the museum opened the $22.3 million, 200,000 square-foot third building, the Eugene W. Kettering Cold War Gallery. The first phase of the museum's expansion, the new building allowed the museum to expand its exhibit space and reconstitute the flow of its galleries into a more chronological order.

Harrowing and courageous moments are captured in the museum's World War II Gallery, which houses one of the world's top collections of WWII aircraft and a variety of engaging and evocative exhibits to tell the proud story of the U.S. Army Air Forces during the war.

The Air Force Museum Foundation, Inc. was established in 1960 as a philanthropic, nonprofit organization to assist the Air Force in the development and expansion of the facilities of the National Museum of the United States Air Force and to undertake and advance programs and activities supporting the museum.