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    The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)'s annex at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia. As the NASM continued to collect aircraft, it long ago outgrew its primary facility in crowded downtown Washington, D.C. This center is a companion facility to the National Air and Space Museum.
    The Center was made possible by a US$65 million gift in October 1999 to the Smithsonian Institution by Steven F. Udvar-Hazy, an immigrant from Hungary and co-founder of the International Lease Finance Corporation. Construction of the Center required fifteen years of preparationand was built by Hensel Phelps Construction Co.


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    Opened in December 2003, the Udvar-Hazy Center displays historic aviation and space artifacts, particularly items too large for the National Air and Space Museum's building on the National Mall, including:

      the Northrop N-1
      the only surviving Dornier Do 335 Arrow
      the only surviving Heinkel He 219 Owl
      the only surviving Arado Ar 234 "Blitz"
      one of two surviving Boeing P-26 Peashooters
      a Bede BD-5, a single-seat, homebuilt aircraft that was somewhat popular in the 1970s



    The museum is in the process of installing exhibits, but more than 120 aircraft and 140 space-exploration exhibits are already on display as of 2006, and plans call for eventually installing over 200 aircraft. It also contains an IMAX theater.


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    Image:MiG-udvar-hazy.jpg|MiG 15 of the type piloted by Polish defector Frank Jarecki
    Image:Enolagay-udvar-hazy.jpg|The Enola Gay
    Image:Sr71-udvar-hazy.jpg|Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird
    Image:Concorde-udvar-hazy.jpg|Air France Concorde
    Image:Interior-udvar-hazy.jpg|Interior view showing the Enola Gay
    Image:Space_Shuttle_Enterprise_at_Udvar-Hazy_Center.jpg|The space shuttle Enterprise
    Image:Udvar-hazy-888.jpg|The SR-71 at the center of the hangar
    Image:UdvarHazyCenter.jpg|Interior view
    Image:Concorde in NA&SM.JPG|Air France Concorde
    Image:Udvarhazypan1.jpg|Panorama from the central catwalk
    Image:GlobalFlyer at Udvar-Hazy.jpg|Virgin Atlantic Global Flyer



     
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