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Airplanes

Liberal, Kansas

Mid-America Air Museum

A former Army airfield is home to one of the largest aviation museums in America.

Chanute, Kansas

Chanute-Wright Brothers Memorial

This unusual sculpture honors the city's namesake, Octave Chanute, for his pioneering work in early aviation.

Longreach, Australia

Qantas Founders Museum

The museum describes the story of how an Australian airline with a single biplane became one of the biggest in the world.

Kansas City, Missouri

TWA Museum

The golden age of flight captured in a downtown airport.

Mexicali, Mexico

Boeing 727 Crash Experiment

This mangled and twisted wreckage left by the side of a Mexican road was no accident, but a planned crash in the name of science and safety.

Podcast: Our Travel Expectations

From visiting Petra in flip flops to getting nauseous at the Grand Canyon.

The Podcast Team October 11, 2023

Churchill, Manitoba

Miss Piggy Plane Wreck

A crash site in the heart of polar bear territory has become a beloved local landmark.

Strauss Airstrip

Noonamah, Australia

Strauss Airstrip

This preserved site served as part of Northern Australia’s defense in World War II.

Utqiagvik, Alaska

Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial

Commemorating the lives of a renowned humorist and a famed aviator who died in a plane crash in northern Alaska.

Opijnen, Netherlands

McCammonplein

A unique World War II memorial commemorates where the American B-17 bomber Man-O-War crashed.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (left), Aéropostale pilot and author of <em>The Little Prince</em>, stands in front of a plane in 1929.

The Daring Desert Pilots That Inspired ‘The Little Prince’

And the modern pilots retracing their pioneering airmail flights.

Cat Rainsford July 12, 2023

For breakfast (or lunch) with a view, consider the airfield restaurant.

The Fly-In Restaurants on America's Airfields

Both pilots and planespotters seek out these aviation-themed eateries.

Anne Ewbank July 10, 2023

Eveleth, Minnesota

Paul Wellstone Memorial

A memorial to the late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, who died at this location, along with seven others, in a plane crash in 2002.

Kovach, Alberta

Memorial Lakes

Three pristine alpine lakes named in memorial of an accident that resulted in three different plane crashes.

Garden City, New York

Pan Am Museum

This museum-within-a-museum pays tribute to "The World's Most Experienced Airline."

Curtiss-Robertson Robin, J-1D

Fredericksburg, Virginia

Shannon Air Museum

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

14 Places to See a Transportation Transformation

Where they're going, we don't need roads.

Jonathan Carey May 24, 2023

Spirit of Palmdale

Palmdale, California

Blackbird Airpark

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.