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Did you know our collections staff catalog each object by hand? We recently received a large donation of over one thousand photographs of modern and historic airplanes that our team is labeling, entering in our database, and scanning for preservation for future generations. Check out a selection of these new additions to the collection in our exhibition “American Airliner Cockpits”, on view in the Aviation Museum. Shout out to our collections team!
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