Our mission is to raise funds to support the development of the Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB, California and the museum’s Blackbird Airpark Annex at USAF Plant 42 in Palmdale.

A private, nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, the Flight Test Museum Foundation, funded the construction of a 12,000 square foot museum facility at Edwards Air Force Base, the “Home of the Right Stuff,” where the world’s most exciting and edge-of-the-envelope flying happens every day! Where we tested America’s first jet, the XP-59; Maj Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in the X-1; NASA launched rocket planes like the X-15 to the edge of space and conducted the first glide flights of the Space Shuttle. History is still being made every day in the Aerospace Valley by inspired people designing, building and flying the most advanced aircraft yet imagined!

The Flight Test Museum owns more than 85 historical aircraft from over 75 years of flight test pioneered at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center, Plant 42 and the Aerospace Valley, CA. You’ll also see aircraft engines, missiles, flight suits and helmets, life support equipment, technical drawings, test reports, personal memorabilia, photographs, and wind tunnel models from the Golden Age of Flight Test.

Though admission is free, most exhibits are currently only accessible to those with Base access. A “Century Series” airpark sits just outside the main gate and right next to it, an ambitious expansion is underway—a new, state-of-the-art museum that will protect these rare artifacts from the harsh desert while bringing aviation history to life like never before. With immersive exhibits, lecture halls, STEM labs, and the Robert A. Hoover SETP Archives & Library, the new museum will be a hub of discovery, innovation, and inspiration. The sky is not the limit—it’s just the beginning. Join us today!