350+ aircraft

Tucson, AZ

May 8, 1976

• September 11, 1968 -320 acres of BLM Land given to Pima County for the museum for $800
• March 22, 1969 – Republic of India retired the last operational Consolidated B-24 Liberator and gave it to the museum
• April 27, 1969, thirty-one days and 11,000 miles after leaving India
• approximately 30 acres of the new park for the initial museum site
•  August 1973 – acquired the last of the World War II barracks buildings at Davis-Monthan
• Opened to the public in May 8, 1976
• Opened with 48 aircraft on display
• World’s largest non-government funded aerospace museum
• 127 acres
• 1982 first hangar built
• November 11, 1982 – Titan silo was deactivated
• 1984 – 390th Memorial Museum opened
• May 8, 1986 – Titan Missile Museum opened to the public 
• 1987 second hangar built for  administrative offices, library, archives, collections storage and a small exhibit gallery for the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame
• 1990 – restoration hangar built
• 1992 – name of the museum was changed to “Pima Air & Space Museum”
• 1992 third hangar built – World War II aircraft & B-24J Liberator
• 1994 fourth hangar built
• 1995 – name of the foundation was changed to “The Arizona Aerospace Foundation.”
• 1999 – Space Gallery opened
• 2006 – Hangar 1 Expanded
• 2010 – Hangar 1 expanded again (20,000sq feet)
• 2015 given the second Boeing 787 aircraft to be built
• 2016 given the first McDonnell-Douglas DC-10 Flying Eye Hospital
• 2020 – 350+ aircraft
  100,000 square feet of indoor display space