Object Details
- Author
- Avino, Mark
- Subject
- National Air and Space Museum
- Voyager (Airplane)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in TORCH, January 1988
- Summary
- "Voyager," the first aircraft to fly around the world without landing or refueling, is being lifted into place in the south gallery of the National Air and Space Museum (NASM). The craft, which has a wingspan of 108 feet, was separated into five sections and transported from the Paul E. Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland, through the streets of Washington in the dead of night.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives Record Unit 371, Box 5, Folder: January 1988
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1987
- Standard number
- 87-16212-12
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Photographic print
- Exhibit
- Physical description
- Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Exhibit; Medium: Photographic print
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Airplanes
- Moving of artifacts
- Record ID
- siris_sic_9064
