F inding your way to the Wings over the Rockies museum couldn't be easier... you just look for the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress in the middle of Denver! Seriously, the museum 'gate guard' is a tall-finned B-52B - parked outside the museum's hangar. "he museum site is actually on the former Lowry AFB with the aircraft situated within a 150,000sq ft hangar dating back to 1939. Although the runway closed in 1966, the airfield remained active as a training facility until 1994, when the Wings over the Rockies moved in to preserve the history of Lowry AFB's operations as well as its collections, archives, and research library. The light and airy hangar contains a wealth of aircraft - most with a link to Lowry AFB, Denver or the state of Colorado. The earliest machine on display is the Colorado Aviation Historical Society's Alexander Eaglerock biplane built in Englewood, Colorado in 1926, while other early aircraft include a 1938-vintage Douglas B-18 Bolo bomber More up to date aircraft with local links are a Learjet 24 and the prototype Adam M-309 Carbon Aero that was developed in Colorado.
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