Visitors are welcome to listen and interact with SAM subject matter experts to be found in the museum’s Presidential Gallery in the fourth building. They can also look forward to a presidential trivia game with prizes, special artifacts, model aircraft, books and pins from the SAM mission will be on display with Plane Talks.
The gallery offers visitors a look at an historic collection of presidential aircraft — and a chance to walk through four of them, including aircraft used by Presidents Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower as well as the Boeing VC-137C also known as SAM (Special Air Mission) 26000, which was used by eight presidents — Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Clinton — in addition to carrying heads of state, diplomats and other dignitaries and officials, on many historic journeys, the museum said.
These talks happen just a few times a year, focusing on the history and development of aircraft and exhibits at the museum.
The museum — which is celebrating its centennial anniversary this spring — features more than 350 aerospace vehicles and missiles and thousands of artifacts amid more than 19 acres of indoor exhibit space.
The museum’s hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and admission is free. The entrance to museum grounds is at gate 28B off Springfield Street in Riverside.
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