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Message from the director. The National Mall Museum will open the Lockheed Martin IMAX Theater, and five more galleries July 28, 2025.

Many are familiar with Rosie the Riveter. However, women also played an important role in World War I, especially in regard to aviation.

Chauncey Spencer and Dale White were charged with flying to DC to advocate for opportunities for Black pilots.

In 1923, the U.S. Army Air Service announced it was going to attempt a flight around the globe.  

Charles Alfred Anderson most accomplished aviators in the country and a ground-breaking advocate for Black pilots.

U.S. Army Air Service pilots Lt. John A. Macready and Lt. Oakley G. Kelly made the first nonstop transcontinental flight.

How Calbraith Perry Rodgers became the first person to fly across America.

Fifty years after his death, and nearly 100 since he was thrust into the global spotlight, Charles Lindbergh’s legacy remains complicated.

The mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July 1937 persists to the present day.  

Not far away is the wreckage of his U.S. Navy Grumman F4F Wildcat fighter, near the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks, my uncle Roy Len Lee’s remains lie at the bottom of the sea. He was one of thousands of Americans who left their families to fight for their country and perished in training.