Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
The Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum is a military and maritime history museum with a collection of museum ships in New York City. It is located at Pier 86 at 46th Street in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood on the West Side of Manhattan. The museum showcases the aircraft carrier the former USS Intrepid, the submarine the former USS Growler, a Concorde SST, a Lockheed A-12 supersonic reconnaissance plane, and the Space Shuttle Enterprise.
Selected exhibits
US Air Force: General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon that was flown in Operation Desert Storm, Lockheed A-12 (predecessor of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and first production example).
US Navy: USS Growler (1989), a diesel electric submarine which carried out nuclear deterrent patrols armed with Regulus missiles, Grumman F-14 Tomcat used in 1973 as a, Super Tomcat prototype, Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, Beechcraft T-34 Mentor trainer, Grumman TBM Avenger, Grumman E-1 Tracer, Grumman F-11 Tiger that was once the number 5 jet on the Blue Angels, North American FJ-2/-3 Fury, Vought F-8 Crusader, Grumman A-6 Intruder that was used as a testbed for new radar and avionics in 1988, McDonnell F3H Demon, Grumman F-9 Cougar currently under restoration, Piasecki H-25, Douglas A-1 Skyraider.
US Marine Corps: McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Hawker Siddeley AV-8C Harrier V/STOL attack aircraft, Bell AH-1J Sea Cobra gunship.
US Army: A Vietnam-era Bell UH-1 Iroquois.
NASA: Aurora 7 Mercury capsule replicam, Space Shuttle Enterprise (within a pavilion on the flight deck).
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