Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum

Aviation And Cold War Museum (Opened At Offutt Air Force Base; Moved To Ashland In 1998 Hedge) · Ashland, Nebraska

The Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum is an aviation and Cold War museum beside Interstate 80 near Ashland, roughly halfway between Omaha and Lincoln. It tells the story of Strategic Air Command, the Air Force command that ran America's long-range nuclear bombers and missiles from its headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, just south of Omaha, from 1948 until it was disbanded in 1992. The collection began in 1959 as an outdoor display of aircraft at Offutt, where the planes weathered for decades, and moved to this purpose-built site in 1998, where the aircraft are kept indoors in two large hangars joined by a glass atrium. The core of the collection is a line of Cold War bombers and reconnaissance planes, including an SR-71 Blackbird, a giant B-36 Peacemaker and a B-52, alongside missiles, space artefacts, simulators and a children's area. It has gone by other names, including Strategic Air and Space Museum. It is a half-day stop for aviation and history fans and a good family visit on a hot or stormy day, easy to reach from I-80 exit 426 and near Mahoney State Park.

28210 West Park Highway, Ashland, Nebraska, 68003, United States

NO OPENING TIME HERE WAS CHECKED. The typical pattern: the museum opens daily or most days from roughly 9 or 10 am to about 5 pm, on Central time, with shorter hours or closures on major holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Simulators may close earlier than the hangars. The traps that ruin a visit are arriving an hour before closing, finding the museum closed for a winter storm or a holiday, and expecting the nearby Wildlife Safari Park to be open in winter, when it is closed. Confirm current times before relying on them.

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