This Day in History – June 10, 1969 – The X-15 gets a place in history

10 June 1969: The U.S. Air Force donated the first North American Aviation X-15, serial number 56-6670, to the Smithsonian Institution for display at the National Air and Space Museum. The first of three X-15A hypersonic research rocketplanes built by North American for the Air Force and the National Advisory Committee (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), 56-6670 made the first glide flight and

National Building Museum Event in Washington, DC, September 28th

/ What's New / By MB Barrett

Walt Cunningham Jack Dailey Bill Dana Ron Fogleman

Join the National Aviation Hall of Fame for the 56^th Annual Enshrinement Dinner & Ceremony to be held in the breathtaking National Building Museum in Washington, DC on September 28^th. On that evening we will again proudly present an event worthy of the title, “The Oscar Night of Aviation.” Surrounded by the grand columns within the facility built to provide pensions to America’s Civil War veterans, the NAHF Board of Trustees and staff are planning the most spectacular Enshrinement to date.