INTREPID AIR MUSEUM
NEW YORK
STATI UNITI
30Th March 2012
New York offers its visitors an incredible number of museums, famous all over the world for their collection of works of art, but the city offers a very particular one, a museum dedicated to the world of aeronautics. Located on Pier 86 on 46th Street, the Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum, on the West Side of Manhattan, collects a truly remarkable collection of planes and historical departments on its bridge and in its hangar. Born in 1982, the museum is closed in 2006 to be restored. Reopened in November 2008, it has been a constant destination for thousands of visitors ever since. Many of the exposed planes that made the history of the United States Air Force. One of all, the spy plane used by the CIA for espionage during the cold war, the Locheed A-12 “Blachbird”. Known and made famous thanks to the film “Top Gun”, on display a beautiful Grumman F-14A Tomcat, with white and red colors, one of the seven models built as a prototype for the development of the “Super Tomcat”.
USS Intrepid (CV-11) The Fighting “I”
The collection includes numerous helicopters, two beautiful Bell AH-1S “Cobra” from the US Army, a Piasecki HUP-2 UH-25 “UP-2 Retriever” from 1949 and a Sikorsky HO4S-3 “Sea Horse” a Bell 47G-5 in the bridge below and Bell UH-1 “Iroquois” the veteran helicopter of the Vietman war. The collection is made even more interesting thanks to the presence of some planes belonging to different air forces. From the famous MIG (15-17-21) to an Israel Aircraft Industries F-21A “Kfir” ex Israeli Air Force, to a Dassault Etendard IVM Ex French Marine and to an Aermacchi MB 339A of the Italian Acrobatic Patrol donated by our government in 1986.
Aermacchi MB-339A Italy - Air Force
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