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Where is the Enola Gay on display?

Last updated February 3, 2021 by ZagBot Comment

The Enola Gay airplane is on display at the National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center annex, located near Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia.

In service during World War II, the United States Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber is known for dropping the first atomic bomb used in warfare, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945.

Pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets named the plane after his mother, Enola Gay Tibbets.

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Steven F Udvar-Hazy Center, 14390 Air and Space Museum Parkway
Chantilly
Virginia
20151
United States

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