The Museum of Flight is a private aerospace museum in the Seattle suburb of Tukwila, located within King County International Airport. The American Alliance of Museums-accredited facility was founded in 1965 and has become the world's largest private aerospace museum today, attracting more than 500,000 annual visitors.

It boasts a collection of more than 150 significant aircraft, including a restored Lockheed Model 10-E Electra matching the craft Amelia Earhart disappeared in, the first flight-quality Boeing 747, the first Boeing VC-137B SAM 970 presidential jet, and the Caproni Ca.20, the first fighter plane constructed for World War I. Other exhibits include a restored Boeing manufacturing plant barn and interactive artifact exhibits and archives detailing the history of flight and vessel construction. The museum is open to the public for free the first Thursday of the month.

The Museum of Flight, 9404 E Marginal Way S, Seattle, WA 98108, Phone: 206-764-5700, Facebook

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