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The Museum of Flight

About The Museum of Flight

The Museum of Flight is a private non-profit air and space museum in the Seattle metropolitan area of Washington in the United States. It is located at the southern end of King County International Airport (Boeing Field) in the city of Tukwila, immediately south of Seattle. It was established in 1965 and is fully accredited by the American Alliance of Museums. As the largest private air and space museum in the world, it also hosts large K–12 educational programs.

The museum had over 465,000 visitors in 2024 and over 11,000 members. It had $27 million in operating revenues and a total endowment value of $72.9 million in 2024. The museum also serves more than 140,000 students annually through its onsite programs: a Challenger Learning Center, an Aviation Learning Center, and a summer camp (ACE), as well as outreach programs that travel throughout Washington and Oregon.

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Aviation museum
Founded
1965
Annual visitors
400K
400,000

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  2. Inside The Museum of Flight02Inside The Museum of FlightVisitor7 · CC BY-SA 3.0
  3. The Museum of Flights new Space Gallery (8)03S new Space Gallery (8)Clemens Vasters from Viersen, Germany · CC BY 2.0
  4. Gt Gallery04Gt GalleryChris Light · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. Blended winglet on display at Museum of Flight September05Blended winglet on display at Museum of Flight September4300streetcar · CC BY 4.0
  6. Tukwila, WA, USA06Tukwila, WA, USAEric Friedebach · CC BY 3.0

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