San Diego Aerospace Museum Photos

The San Diego Aerospace Museum in Balboa Park occupies the Art Deco Ford Building built for California Pacific International Exposition in 1935. The museum emphasizes naval aviation, San Diego history, & the aviation hall of fame.

See also: Aviation Museums, San Diego
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Ford Building built for California Pacific International Exposition (1935) now San Diego Aerospace Museum. Style: Art Deco. On National Register.

Eucalyptus tree by Ford Building used for 1936 World's Fair.

Convair Sea Dart experimental water-based supersonic jet (1953-6) in front of Ford Building.

Lockheed A-12 Blackbird titanium nose outside San Diego Aerospace Museum.

A-12 Blackbird (1963) on pedestal outside San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Bleriot XI (1909-14) first to cross English channel & first commercially successful monoplane at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Deperdussin (1911) Type Militaire (SPAD) monoplane at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Deperdussin (1911) Type Militaire SPAD monoplane engine detail at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Bébé Peugeot (c1913) automobile by Ettore Buggati at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

SPAD VII.c.1 (1916) biplane at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Nieuport 28 C-1 (1918) French-built biplane fighter flown by Americans in WWI at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Thomas Morse S-4C biplane (1918) scout made in Ithaca, NY, at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Curtiss JN-4D Jenny at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Lincoln-Standard as part of barnstormers display at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Barnstormers wing walker about to climb ladder to Standard from replica of 1922 Ford Speedster T at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Curtiss JN-4D Jenny from above at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Consolidated PT-1 Trusty (1923) biplane trainer at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Replica of Ryan M-1 (1926) mail & cargo monoplane which was forerunner of Lindbergh's Spirit of St Louis at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Boeing FB-5 (1926) biplane for aircraft carrier service at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Mahoney-Ryan B-5 Brougham (1929) monoplane with cabin at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ryan STA (1934) trainer & aerobatic monoplane at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ryan PT-22 (1942) trainer at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Waco YKS-7 (1937-41) trainer biplane from Waco Aircraft, Troy, OH, at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Supermarine Spitfire Mk XVI at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

World War II aircraft seen against March of Transportation Mural by Juan Larrinaga at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Japanese A6M7 Zero naval carrier fighter (1939-45) at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Japanese A6M7 Zero fighter (1939-41) at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless (1940-45) fighter at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless cockpits at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat (1942-45) fighter at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Curtiss P-40 (1940-44) fighter in colors of Flying Tigers at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Flying Tigers Curtiss P-40 as used in Chinese, Burmese, Indian theaters of World War II at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Canopy of Flying Tigers Curtiss P-40 at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

North American P-51D Mustang (1945) fighter in colors of Tuskegee Airmen at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ryan X-13 jet VTOL on its tripod tail at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Douglas A-4B Skyhawk (1954-79) carrier attack bomber at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ford Trimotor passenger plane (1928) at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ford Trimotor 5-AT-B at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ford V8 Phaeton motorcar (1932) at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Ford V8 Deluxe Roadster (1933) made in France at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina amphibian & Mercury spacecraft at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II fighter jet at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

McDonnell Douglas F-4S Phantom II fighter jet at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Bell AH-1E Cobra helicopter gunship at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems RQ-1K Predator unmanned reconnaissance platform (1994) at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Apollo 9 command module at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Mercury astronaut helmet & gloves at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Mercury 7 astronaut mission patches at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Bust of Charles Lindbergh in International Aerospace Hall of Fame at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Portrait of Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard (1882-1945) American rocket pioneer in International Aerospace Hall of Fame.

Portrait of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin (1829-1917) German airship designer in International Aerospace Hall of Fame.

Portrait of Artyom Ivanovich Mikoyan (1905-1970) Russian MiG designer in International Aerospace Hall of Fame.

Medals of Canadian WWI air ace Billy Bishop including Victoria Cross at San Diego Aerospace Museum.

Pacific Southwest Airlines (PSA) stewardess uniforms from 1960-70s at San Diego Aerospace Museum.


All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart.
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