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AIRC_170220_003.JPG: Mary Baker Engen
Restoration Hangar
Restoration and preservation of our collection are conducted here. The facility is spacious enough to accommodate several aircraft and spacecraft at a time, giving our treatment specialists the room and equipment they need to reconstruct, repair, and preserve artifacts. The Restoration Hangar also houses painting, welding, and other support shops where Museum staff complete the highly specialized tasks necessary to care for the collection.
AIRC_170220_009.JPG: Pearl Harbor veteran!
Unrestored Sikorsky JRS-1 flying boat searched for Japanese fleet after 1941 attack
on display, left
AIRC_170220_012.JPG: Martin B-26 Marauder
Flak Bait
200+ missions in WW II
Now being preserved in shop (to your right)
AIRC_170220_021.JPG: Horten HO 229 V3
German flying wing jet built of plywood and metal skin panels
(directly ahead)
AIRC_170220_037.JPG: Lincoln Standard
H.S. biplane, World War I trainer and postwar barnstormer
Fabric covered wood structure.
To your right
AIRC_170220_042.JPG: Apollo II [11] command module
Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
July 16-24, 1969
Straight ahead
AIRC_170220_074.JPG: Storage Display
Sikorsky JRS-1:
This Sikorsky JRS-1 is the only aircraft in the museum collection that was stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Ten JRS-1 amphibians were at the base when the Japanese attacked, and all survived. They were immediately pressed into service and and flew many missions patrolling for Japanese submarines and searching for the enemy fleet. The only armament these airplanes carried were depth charges to attack submarines.
Horten Ho 229 V3:
In 1943 the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 ("aitch-oh-two-two-nine") promised spectacular performance. The German Luftwaffe chief, Hermann Goring, allocated half-a-million Reich Marks to the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten to build and fly several prototypes. Numerous technical problems beset this unique design and the only powered example crashed after several test flights. The airplane remains one of the most unusual combat aircraft tested during World War II.
AIRC_170220_077.JPG: Storage Display
Sikorsky JRS-1:
This Sikorsky JRS-1 is the only aircraft in the museum collection that was stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7th, 1941. Ten JRS-1 amphibians were at the base when the Japanese attacked, and all survived. They were immediately pressed into service and and flew many missions patrolling for Japanese submarines and searching for the enemy fleet. The only armament these airplanes carried were depth charges to attack submarines.
AIRC_170220_080.JPG: Horten Ho 229 V3:
In 1943 the all-wing and jet-propelled Horten Ho 229 ("aitch-oh-two-two-nine") promised spectacular performance. The German Luftwaffe chief, Hermann Goring, allocated half-a-million Reich Marks to the brothers Reimar and Walter Horten to build and fly several prototypes. Numerous technical problems beset this unique design and the only powered example crashed after several test flights. The airplane remains one of the most unusual combat aircraft tested during World War II.
AIRC_170220_084.JPG: Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder Flak-Bait:
Flak-Bait survived 207 operational missions over Europe, more than any other American aircraft during World War II. Workers at the Martin factory near Baltimore completed the B-26 in April 1943. The Army Air Forces assigned it to the 449th Bombardment Squadron, 322nd Bombardment Group and the bomber went into combat in late July. Pilot Jim Farrell took inspiration for the B--26's name from the name for German anti-aircraft artillery, "flak," which all bomber crews faced over Europe, and the nickname his brother gave to Boots the family dog back home, "Flea Bait." Flak-Bait and its crew flew over 700 hours in combat and accumulated over 1,000 patched holes from flak damage before the end of the war in May 1945.
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Description of Subject Matter: Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar
Summer 2012 – Permanent
Watch from the mezzanine as museum specialists reconstruct, repair, and preserve the historic aircraft, spacecraft, and other treasures in the National Air and Space Museum's collection. The Mary Baker Engen Restoration Hangar is spacious enough to accommodate several aircraft at a time. Items currently on view include the Martin B-26B-25-MA Marauder "Flak-Bait," which flew 207 missions over Europe during World War II, more than any other American aircraft, and the Apollo Telescope Mount, a solar observatory from Skylab, America’s first space station. A Sikorsky JRS-1, the museum’s only aircraft stationed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is also visible.
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