Smithsonian Garber Restoration Facility Gallery

Wayne E. Bretl
September 20, 1999

About the Garber Facility...

Garber Portrait Sign

Polaris Missile Serves as Signpost

Collected Aircraft - First Building on Tour

More Artifacts in First Building

Aerobatic Plane

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84k

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12k

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86k

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81k

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72k

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65k

Antique Biplane and Engines

From Propellers to Satellites

Gotha Go 229A (Horten Ho IX) 1945

Gotha Wings

Gotha Go 229A (Horten Ho IX) 1945

(Non) Flying Saucer

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84k

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73k

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79k

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56k

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73k

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65k

Unpiloted

Wind Tunnel Model

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67k

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20k

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57k

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63k

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58k

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53k

Cockpit with Ejection Seat

Biplane Wire and Struts

It's a Plane, It's a Car?

U.S. Copy of Buzz Bomb

B36 Wheel and Tire

Copters

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57k

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53k

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36k

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35k

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61k

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69k

Bell Experimental VTOL

Copter

Curtiss-Wright VTOL

Boeing Vertol VZ-2A

Cessna 150

Moon Buggy

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71k

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73k

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64k

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64k

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38k

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45k

Wood Fuselage

Nelson Hummingbird 1-Person Ground Effect Vehicle

Record-Breaking Beechcraft Bonanza

Airphibian

Slant Wing

GEV

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88k

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50k

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58k

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53k

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56k

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41k

Flights of the Swoose - WWII Bomber

Swoose Fuselage

Air-Breathing Missile

Gotha Flying Wing

Gotha Flying Wing

Layout of New Dulles Airport Facility

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79k

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49k

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37k

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63k

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49k

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63k

Pilot and Mechanic on Duty

Model of Enola Gay

Work in Progress

Work in Progress

Marvels of All Ages

Space Module

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46k

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39k

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66k

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80k

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74k

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97k

Northrop N-1M Flying Wing - 1940

Space Module

Early Jet

Channel Wing

Bachem Ba 349 - 1945

Early Jet

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75k

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40k

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51k

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54k

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56k

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73k

Engine Cutaway

Experimental Jet

B32 Ball Turret

Antique

Antique

Various Planes, Engines

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51k

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41k

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42k

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62k

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95k

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63k

Shroudless Turbofan

Folding Rotorcraft

Rocket

Enola Gay Rear Fuselage under Restoration

Enola Gay Rear Fuselage under Restoration

Enola Gay Propeller

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67k

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55k

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19k

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74k

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73k

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31k

Jet Fighter

Part Replacement

Fabric Restoration

Japanese Submarine-Carried Pontoon Plane

Pontoon for Japanese Sub-Carried Plane

Wing of Sub-Carried Plane

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41k

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42k

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81k

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71k

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54k

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61k

Diagram of Plane-Carrying Japanese Submarine

Parts Paid For by Concession Sales

Concession Items

Emblems

Betty Shelton's Plane

 

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168k

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27k

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60k

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46k

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71k

 
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