2008 Museums: Museum of Flight, Seattle WA

KBFI - N47 31 48 W122 18 07 (Boeing Field)

What a great museum this is ! On my last trip to Seattle at the end of 2008, I could not help but stop again at this fine facility and redo a photographic essay of the numerous planes housed in the various halls and outside. Hope you will enjoy !

Always a worthwhile stop if you travel by Seattle ! Their Web site

From the great hall: Beech C-45H Expeditor Boeing BW (replica) Boeing 100/P-12 Boeing 40B Nose view Uncovered fuselage (Red Barn exhibit) Boeing 80A-1 "City of Austin" Canadair CL-13B Sabre Cockpit bubble canopy Curtiss Robin C-1 Douglas A-4F Skyhawk (Blue Angels) Fairchild F24W Fieseler Fi-103 Buzz Bomb Goodyear F2G-1 Super Corsair Granville Brothers Gee-Bee Z Grumman F9F-8 Cougar Hiller YH-32 Hornet Lear Fan 2100 Rear view Lockheed F-104C Starfighter (NASA) Lockheed-Martin / Boeing RQ-3A Darkstar Lockheed M-21 Blackbird McDonnell Douglas AV-8C Harrier Piper J-3 Cub Rumpler Taube Ryan M-1 Stearman C3-B Front view Nose art Stearman PT-13A Kaydet Stinson SR Reliant Side view Swallow Commercial Wright Flyer (replica) From the new Personal Courage Wing World War I: Albatros D.Va Side view Aviatik D.1 Side view Caproni Ca 20 Nose view 3/4 rear view (midship) Curtiss JN-4D Jenny Tail detail Fokker Dr.1 Triplane Fokker D-VII Fokker D-VIII Top view Fokker E-III Eindecker Front view Engine close-up Nieuport Type 24 "Zicomar 5" Nose art Rear view Nieuport Type 27 Nieuport Type 28 Nose view Pfalz D.XII RAF S.E.5a Nose view Sopwith F.1 Camel Side view Sopwith Pup Engine cowling detail Sopwith Triplane Engine detail Rear view SPAD XIII Side view Nose art	From the new Personal Courage Wing World War II: Curtiss P-40N Warhawk "O'Riley's Daughter" 3/4 rear view General Motors FM-2 Wildcat Rear view Side view Engine detail Goodyear FG-1D Corsair Engine close-up Tail view Detail of the folding wing mechanism Lockheed P38-L Lightning "Wiyendott Mich." Side view Messerschmitt Bf 109E-3 Nose view Front view Nakajima Ki-43-IIb Hayabusa Rear view Engine detail North American P-51D Mustang Cockpit bubble canopy Republic P-47D Thunderbolt "Big Stud" Engine detail P-47D Thunderbolt scale model Supermarine Spitfire Mk.IX MK923 Side view Yakolev Yak-9U Side view Nose art Commercial Transport Area: Boeing's Flight Test Dept Logo Aerospatiale / BAC Concorde Engine Displays: Allison V1710 Propeller shaft end view Anzani 6 cylinders radial Beardmore 6 cylinders in-line Boeing 502-1-1 Turbine Boeing 502-10 Turbine Curtiss G6-A 6 cylinders in-line Curtiss OX-5 V-8 General Electric I-16 Jet engine Gnome N 9 cylinders Mono Soupape rotary Halscot A7-A 4 cylinders in-line Hispano-Suiza H V-8 Le Rhone Model J 9 cylinders rotary Cylinder head detail Liberty V-12 Pratt & Whitnet J-58 Turbo-ramjet Pratt & Whitney R-485 Wasp Pratt & Whitney R-1690 Hornet Pratt & Whitney R-2800-8W Double Wasp Cylinder cooling fins detail Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major Rolls-Royce V1650-7 Merlin (Packard) Sturtevant 5 V-8 Walter HWK 109-509 rocket engine On the grass: Boeing 737-200 Boeing WB-47E Stratojet deHavilland DHC-2 Beaver Douglas DC2-118B TWA (NC13711) Front view

While on the site, I always take a few pictures from the Boeing Field traffic... Cessna Caravan Cessna Caravan Cessna Citation Dassault Jet Diamond Twinstar Learjet Pilatus PC-12