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The Pima Air & Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, is the world's largest non-government funded aerospace museum.

The Pima Air & Space Museum is one of the largest aviation Museums in the world, and the largest non-government funded aviation Museum in the United States. The Museum maintains a collection of more than 275 aircraft and spacecraft from around the globe, including many rare and one-of-a-kind, and more than 125,000 artifacts. Here you will walk among the giants of our aviation heritage, including military, commercial, and civil aviation. Among them are a B-29 Superfortress, the SR-71 Blackbird, and a rare World War II German V-1 "buzz bomb." Most or all of the operators and tour guides were war veterans who were dedicated, proud and very knowledgeable showing visitors in various areas of museum. The site also held catering reception open to the public within areas of the hangars.

The collection includes President John F. Kennedy's Air Force One, and presidential aircraft used by president's Nixon and Johnson. The Museum has five large hangars totaling more than 177,000 feet of exhibit space. In addition, the 390th Bombardment Group (Heavy) Memorial Museum is located on the Museum grounds. Pima Air & Space maintains its own aircraft restoration center, and is also proud to offer exclusive tours of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), also known as the "Boneyard," located across the street at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. Bus tours of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) leave from the museum
Opened to the public in May 1976 with 75 aircraft on display it now contains a collection with over 250 aircraft occupying 80 acres (320,000 m�) of land. The entire museum property covers about 150 acres (610,000 miles).

The museum is adjacent to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base. The Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, affiliated with Davis Monthan AFB, also known as the fabled Graveyard of Planes or The Boneyard, is one of the largest aircraft storage and preservation facilities in the world.

The Titan Missile Museum is run by the Pima Air Museum, shown in the Tuscon gallery. It is located south of Tucson and features a replica of a Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile still in its silo. Tours of the above and underground installations around the missile are available.

In addition, bus tours of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) leave from the museum.

The museum houses a major exhibit dedicated to the 390th Bomb Group in its own building, and to the 330th Bomb Group in Hangar 4.

www.pimaair.org

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