National Air Museum Begins Operations

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Summary

The National Air Museum begins independent operations. The aeronautical collections of the United States National Museum, numbering about 3,500 specimens, are transfered to the Air Museum along with pertinent records and files. The staff of the former division of aeronautics of the National Museum, consisting of a curator and a clerk-stenographer, are also transferred.

Subject

  • National Air and Space Museum
  • United States National Museum
  • National Air Museum (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1948. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, p. 4.

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

August 1, 1948

Topic

  • Aeronautics
  • New Bureaus

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