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The National Museum of the United States Air Force is the premiere museum of the United States Air Force, located in Fairborn, Ohio on the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base facility. The museum is the world's oldest and largest military aviation museum, originally opened at Dayton's McCook Field in 1923, and is part of the Miami Valley's National Aviation Heritage Area. More than one million visitors attend the museum annually and view major exhibits of aviation memorabilia and artifacts, including an impressive collection of preserved and restored 20th-century military aviation aircraft.
Significant artifacts on display include the Apollo 15 Command Module Endeavour, the world's only surviving North American XB-70 Valkyrie, and the Bockscar Boeing B-29 Superfortress that dropped the nuclear bomb on Nagasaki during World War II.
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