The List of aircraft in the Smithsonian Institution includes aircraft exhibited in the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian Institution is an educational and research institute and associated museum complex, administered and funded by the government of the United States and by funds from its endowment, contributions, and profits from its retail operations, concessions, licensing activities, and magazines...

's National Air and Space Museum

National Air and Space Museum

The National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution holds the largest collection of historic aircraft and spacecraft in the world. It was established in 1976. Located in Washington, D.C., United States, it is a center for research into the history and science of aviation and...

, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum 's annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in the Chantilly area of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States....

, and the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility

Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility

The Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility is located in Suitland, Maryland, USA. The facility, also nicknamed "Silver Hill", is where the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum restores aircraft, spacecraft, and other artifacts.It is named in honor of...

. The Smithsonian Institution's collection of aircraft and spacecraft is the largest on display in the world.

Aircraft displayed at the National Air and Space Museum

The original location for the display of the Smithsonian's collection of aerospace artifacts is the National Air and Space Museum, located on the National Mall

National Mall

The National Mall is an open-area national park in downtown Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The National Mall is a unit of the National Park Service , and is administered by the National Mall and Memorial Parks unit...

 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 Most of the more famous artifacts in the collection are displayed here, including the Wright Flyer

Wright Flyer

The Wright Flyer was the first powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903 near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S.The U.S...

, Charles Lindbergh

Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist.Lindbergh, a 25-year-old U.S...

's Spirit of St. Louis, and the Apollo 11

Apollo 11

In early 1969, Bill Anders accepted a job with the National Space Council effective in August 1969 and announced his retirement as an astronaut. At that point Ken Mattingly was moved from the support crew into parallel training with Anders as backup Command Module Pilot in case Apollo 11 was...

 command module.

• Aeronautica Macchi C.202 Folgore
• Albatros D.Va
  Albatros D.V
  |-See also:-Bibliography:*Bennett, Leon. Gunning for the Red Baron. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. ISBN 1-58544-507-X....
  
  
• Beechcraft C17L Staggerwing
• Bell X-1
  Bell X-1
  The Bell X-1, originally designated XS-1, was a joint NACA-U.S. Army/US Air Force supersonic research project built by Bell Aircraft. Conceived in 1944 and designed and built over 1945, it eventually reached nearly 1,000 mph in 1948...
  
  
• Bell XP-59A Airacomet
• Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor
• Martin B-26 Marauder Flak Bait
  Flak Bait
  Flak Bait was a B-26 Marauder aircraft that holds the record within the United States Army Air Forces for number of bombing missions survived during World War II. A B-26B manufactured in Baltimore, Maryland, by Martin, this aircraft was completed in April, 1943. It was christened Flak Bait by one...
  
  
• Wittman Buster
• 1903 Wright Flyer
  Wright Flyer
  The Wright Flyer was the first powered aircraft, designed and built by the Wright brothers. They flew it four times on December 17, 1903 near the Kill Devil Hills, about four miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, U.S.The U.S...
  
  
• 1909 Wright Military Flyer

Aircraft displayed at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center

Opened in 2003, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, located near Washington Dulles International Airport

Washington Dulles International Airport

Washington Dulles International Airport is a public airport in Dulles, Virginia, 26 miles west of downtown Washington, D.C. The airport serves the Baltimore-Washington-Northern Virginia metropolitan area centered on the District of Columbia. It is named after John Foster Dulles, Secretary of...

 in Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County is a county in Virginia, in the United States. Per the 2010 Census, the population of the county is 1,081,726, making it the most populous jurisdiction in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with 13.5% of Virginia's population...

, features thousands of artifacts for which insufficent space could be found for display in the Museum's National Mall building. The James S. McDonnell Space Hangar, opened in 2004, is incorporated into the Udvar-Hazy Center.

• Aeronca C-2
  Aeronca C-2
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• American Aerolights Double Eagle
  American Aerolights Double Eagle
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• Aichi M6A1 Seiran
  Aichi M6A
  The Aichi M6A Seiran was a submarine-launched attack floatplane designed for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II...
  
  
• Arado Ar 234 B-2 Blitz
  Arado Ar 234
  The Arado Ar 234 was the world's first operational jet-powered bomber, built by the German Arado company in the closing stages of World War II. Produced in very limited numbers, it was used almost entirely in the reconnaissance role, but in its few uses as a bomber it proved to be nearly impossible...
  
  
• Arlington Sisu 1A
• Arrow Sport A2-60
  Arrow Sport
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• Autogiro Company of America AC-35
  Autogiro Company of America AC-35
  |-See also:-Notes:* Popular Science Monthly, October 1933, conceptual drawing based on information supplied by manufacture...
  
  
• Baldwin Red Devil
  Baldwin Red Devil
  The Baldwin Red Devil was a series of early pusher configuration aircraft employing steel tube construction. The aircraft were designed by Thomas Scott Baldwin, an early pioneer of airships.-Development:...
  
  
• Beck-Mahoney Sorceress
  Beck-Mahoney Sorceress
  The Beck-Mahoney Sorceress was a racing staggerwing biplane originally designed by the father and son team of Lee and Seldon Mahoney with later improvements accomplished by pilot Don Beck....
  
  
• Beechcraft D18S Twin Beech
  Beechcraft Model 18
  The Beechcraft Model 18, or "Twin Beech", as it is better known, is a 6-11 seat, twin-engine, low-wing, conventional-gear aircraft that was manufactured by the Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas...
  
  
• Beechcraft 35 Bonanza "Waikiki Beech"
  Beechcraft Bonanza
  The Beechcraft Bonanza is an American general aviation aircraft introduced in 1947 by The Beech Aircraft Corporation of Wichita, Kansas. , it is still being produced by Hawker Beechcraft, and has been in continuous production longer than any other airplane in history...
  
  
• Beechcraft King Air
  Beechcraft King Air
  The Beechcraft King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation...
  
  
• Bell Model 30
  Bell 30
  |-See also:-External links: August 1944 article on Bell 30. Photo at bottom of page....
  
  
• Bell 47b
  Bell 47
  The Bell 47 is a two-bladed, single engine, light helicopter manufactured by Bell Helicopter. Based on the third Model 30 prototype, Bell's first helicopter designed by Arthur M. Young, the Bell 47 became the first helicopter certified for civilian use on 8 March 1946...
  
  
• Bell 206 LongRanger Spirit of Texas
• Bell H-13J
  Bell 47J Ranger
  |-See also:-References:* -External links:* from The International Directory of Civil Aircraft by Gerard Frawley...
  
  
• Bell UH-1H Iroquois "Huey"
• Bell XV-15 TRRA
  Bell XV-15
  The Bell XV-15 was an American tiltrotor VTOL aircraft. It was the second successful experimental tiltrotor aircraft and the first to demonstrate the concept's high speed performance relative to conventional helicopters.-Early VTOL rotor aircraft:...
  
  
• Bellanca CF
• Benoist-Korn Type XII
  Benoist Land Tractor Type XII
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• Bensen B-6 Gyroglider
  Bensen B-6
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• Boeing 367-80
  Boeing 367-80
  The Boeing 367-80, or "Dash 80" as it was called within Boeing, is an American prototype jet transport built to demonstrate the advantages of jet aircraft for passenger transport over piston-engine airliners....
  
  
• Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay
  Enola Gay
  Enola Gay is a Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, named after Enola Gay Tibbets, mother of the pilot, then-Colonel Paul Tibbets. On August 6, 1945, during the final stages of World War II, it became the first aircraft to drop an atomic bomb as a weapon of war...
  
  
• Double Eagle II
  Double Eagle II
  Double Eagle II, piloted by Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman, became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed 17 August 1978 in Miserey near Paris, 137 hours 6 minutes after leaving Presque Isle, Maine....
  
   Gondola
• Fulton Airphibian
• Globe Swift
  Globe Swift
  |-See also:-References:NotesBibliography* Davisson, Budd. "Swiftly, Swiftly: An Appreciation of one of General Aviation's Classic Aircraft." Air Progress, Vol. 45, No. 8, August 1983....
  
  
• Hiller 1031-A-1
• Horten H.III
  Horten H.III
  The Horten H.III was a flying wing sailplane built by Walter and Reimar Horten in Germany from 1937 to 1944.-Design:The H.III series was a incremental development of the Horten H.II with reduced sweepback of 23o, span increased to 20 m and modified lateral controls...
  
  
• Kaman K-225
  Kaman K-225
  -External links:* 1949 Popular Science article on Kaman K-190 and the blade intermesh technology developed by Kaman — ie rare photos* * *...
  
  
• Laird-Turner Meteor LTR-14
  Laird-Turner Meteor LTR-14
  The Laird-Turner RT-14 Meteor, also called the Turner TR-14, Ring Free Meteor, PESCO Special, Miss Champion, Turner Special and the Turner Meteor is the winning aircraft of the 1938 and 1939 Thompson Trophy races....
  
  
• Piper PA-23
• OV-101 Enterprise
  Space Shuttle Enterprise
  The Space Shuttle Enterprise was the first Space Shuttle orbiter. It was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform test flights in the atmosphere. It was constructed without engines or a functional heat shield, and was therefore not capable of spaceflight...
  
  
• Westland Lysander
  Westland Lysander
  The Westland Lysander was a British army co-operation and liaison aircraft produced by Westland Aircraft used immediately before and during the Second World War...
  
  

Aircraft at the Paul E. Garber Facility

Located in Suitland, Maryland, the Paul E. Garber Preservation, Restoration, and Storage Facility is a 32-building complex used for storage and restoration of aircraft and spacecraft in the National Air and Space Museum collection.

The Garber Facility's collection of aerospacecraft is in the process of being transferred to the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. It is planned that in the future, all restoration work performed by the NASM on its exhibits will be conducted at the Udvar-Hazy Center.

• Applebay Zuni II