A Day at the Museum

Recently my granddaughter Maddie and I visited the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field (BFI) in Seattle.  Maddie is nine years old and her first visit to the Museum of Flight.  It was kind of a whirlwind tour through their wonderful exhibits in the Great Gallery and new 3 acre Aviation Pavilion.  

We had a wonderful time exploring the many antique aircraft in the Great Gallery, including the 1928 fighter Boeing 100/P-12/F4B, a 1966 replica of the 1916 Boeing B&W, the iconic Douglas DC-3, and a helicopter most of us rode at one time or another fifty years ago the Bell UH-1H Iroquois (Huey).  In the Aviation Pavilion Maddie and I walked through several of the wonderful planes also: the British Airways Concorde, the “City of Everett” Boeing 747-121, the first 747 built which was  built in Everett, Washington in 1969, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and VC-137B "Air Force One".

We also enjoyed ourselves walking through “The Red Barn” which is the first building Bill Boeing used to build his first wooden airplanes.  All in all we had a wonderful time together.  Below are some pictures while we were at the Museum of Flight.

If you are ever in Seattle (also known as the “Jet City”, “Queen City” or the “Emerald City”) a must see stop is the Museum of Flight, which, according the Wikipedia, is the largest private air and space museum in the world.

A model of an early biplane in the Red Barn

Maddie point to a wooden airframe

One of the many great displays

A Coast Guard rescue helicopter

The Great Gallery at the Museum of Flight