The Museum will be closing early on November 8th for our International Hall of Fame Celebration. Final admission will be at 2:30pm with the Museum closing at 3pm.
The Goodyear Blimp, celebrating 100 years as an icon in the skies above countless cultural and historic events, Pete Bunce, former President & CEO of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA), “Flight of the Grumman Cats (Cat Flight),” legendary fighter aircraft produced by Grumman, and Jack Pelton, Chairman and CEO of EAA and a leader throughout the aviation community for decades, to be honored at the annual star-studded International Air & Space Hall of Fame gala Saturday Nov. 8.
Together, Eagle One and Eagle Two helped the Golden Eagles secure 18 individual national titles in the Power-Off and Short-Field Landing events, while the team as a whole amassed sixteen national championships since 1993—exactly half of all competitions held during that period.
Explore first-hand the remarkable inventions and insatiable curiosity of Leonardo Da Vinci and explore his visionary studies of the principles of flight through the end of the year.
The family-friendly, re-imagined “Moon Base San Diego” activity center at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, offers hands–on, interactive and enjoyable learning activities for explorers of all ages who want to experience a trip to the Moon.
The first of Grumman’s “Cats” and their first monoplane began life on the drawing board in 1935. It was the U.S. Navy’s sole carrier-based fighter at the start of World War II. A contemporary of the Japanese Zero, it performance was inferior in many respects, yet the F4F held its own because of superior armament, rugged construction, and well trained pilots.
Besides photos and films, the San Diego Air and Space Museum has digitized thousands of pages of text and drawings. We use the Internet Archive (Archive.org) to share these items, as this site presents this material in a clear and easy to read format.
An avid collector of World War II memorabilia—especially related to the legendary Flying Tigers—Robert S. Schriebman recognized that the real story of history lives where the tangible and the documented meet.
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