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.