WTOP/Luke Lukert

WTOP/Luke Lukert

WTOP/Luke Lukert ( 1 /3) Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center is going to welcome more historic planes in a major expansion

When you go into the large museum hangar at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, you will be blown away by how many planes are already there, but more will be coming after they expand the museum by 20%, bringing in dozens of new aircraft.

The Enola Gay, the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima; the SR-71 Blackbird, one of the world’s fastest planes and the Space Shuttle Discovery, which was flown on 39 orbital missions; are just a few of the 200 aircraft at Udvar-Hazy.

The museum will add 40 to 50 aircraft in the expansion. They will expand the alre

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