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An Apollonaut travel guide
Moments in a longer story.
Selected milestones in the history of the Museum of Flight.
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Foundation, galleries and aircraft
These dates describe the place you can learn about here. They are not a company timeline for Apollonaut.
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1965
A foundation
The Pacific Northwest Aviation Historical Foundation forms to recover a 1929 Boeing 80A-1 found in Anchorage.
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1968
The Museum of Flight
The name is first used, for a small space at Seattle Center.
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1975
The Red Barn
The museum acquires Boeing’s original 1909 factory for one dollar and floats it up the Duwamish River.
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1983
Opened to visitors
The restored Red Barn opens to the public.
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10 July 1987
The Great Gallery
The Great Gallery opens, a hall of three million cubic feet.
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6 June 2004
The Personal Courage Wing
A wing for aircraft of the two world wars opens on the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
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November 2012
The Space Gallery
The Charles Simonyi Space Gallery opens, home of the Space Shuttle Trainer.
Follow the stories behind the dates
A timeline is a beginning. The longer history introduces the people and places; the sources below provide further context.
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Sources & further reading
Links lead to the original publishers.
