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The National Airline History Museum is a small private 3. Delta Flight Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
museum which keeps several aircraft on display. Fittingly for one of the world's oldest -- and largest --
The highlight of its collection is a Lockheed L-1049
airlines, Delta has its own museum next to its
Constellation which has starred in several Hollywood Atlanta-Hartsfield hub.
movies, including Martin Scorsese's 2004 film "The
Aviator," featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Beckinsale The initiative started in the 1990s thanks to a group
and Cate Blanchett. of enthusiastic employees and retirees who sought
and acquired one of Delta's historical DC-3s.
Airline History Museum, Hangar 9 at Kansas City
Downtown Airport, 201 NW Lou Holland Drive, Kansas With the years the collection kept growing -- it now
City, Missouri 64116; +1 816 421 3401 holds a Boeing 767, a Boeing 757 and the first Boeing
747-400 to ever be built, as well as several other
smaller historical airplanes.

Remarkably, the preservation of many of these
aircraft was made possible through voluntary
3.C. R. Smith Museum (American Airlines),
contributions from Delta's staff.
Fort Worth, Texas
Visitors can find also other items related to Delta's
past, such as an exact replica of its base in Monroe,
Louisiana, as it looked in the 1930s.
Delta Flight Museum, 1060 Delta Boulevard, Atlanta,
GA 30354, United States; +1 404-715-7886

4. British Airways Heritage Collection,
Harmondsworth, UK
American Airlines' museum is named after Cyrus Rowlett
Smith, the airline's president for 34 years and widely
considered the powerhouse behind AA becoming one of
the world's largest airlines.

The museum opened in 1993 but underwent a major
renovation in 2018, with the exhibitions now laid out so
that all different roles within the airline, from senior
management to baggage handlers, are duly represented.

The highlight of the museum is a Douglas DC-3 aircraft,
but also worthy of note are the large collection of
uniforms, a full MD-80 cockpit and an interactive
mockup of the airline's control center.

Many of the exhibits are interactive so that visitors can British Airways' Heritage Collection is located at the
learn hands-on what it takes to run an airline.
airline's HQ and, although it's open to the public, you
C. R. Smith Museum, 4601 Highway 360, Fort Worth, TX should call in advance to get your pass.
76155, United States; +1 817 967 1560
Inside it's a proper museum with display cabinets,
lots of model planes, mannequins, framed
documents and the like. There's even a royal visitor
book.