The museum
An aviation, space, and naval history institution centered on the preserved aircraft carrier Intrepid, with a historic aircraft collection and the Space Shuttle Pavilion.
The aircraft carrier Intrepid survived combat in the Pacific and later served during the Cold War and Vietnam. Today the ship places visitors on the deck where successive generations of aircraft operated, while its hangar and nearby pier add preservation stories beyond the carrier’s own service.
The collection includes an A-12 reconnaissance aircraft, a Tomcat, an F-8 Crusader and an Avenger. A recently restored FG-1D Corsair now appears in a dedicated Second World War exhibition, and the F4D Skyray represents a design with a direct operational link to Intrepid. In the Exploreum, visitors can encounter a Bell 47 helicopter. On the pier the British Airways Concorde G-BOAD, a record-setting supersonic airliner, adds a very different chapter to the history of flight.
This page lists museum-aircraft entries confirmed by the institution’s official exhibition materials rather than inventing a complete flight-deck roster. Intrepid also preserves the prototype space shuttle Enterprise, submarine Growler and shipboard collections, but those are not counted as aircraft in this selection.
What defines the collection
The flight deck combines American military aircraft and selected international aircraft in the physical setting of a carrier that served during the Second World War, Cold War, and Vietnam War. The museum highlights the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft and the space shuttle Enterprise, making it particularly strong for studying Cold War technology and the transition to spaceflight.
What to expect
Walk the flight deck for the fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, visit the World War II Corsair in the hangar, then compare shipboard aviation with the Concorde on the pier. The space shuttle and submarine exhibits broaden the visit beyond conventional aircraft history.
What the museum holds
9 documented aircraft and exhibit records
The inventory below separates what the museum or its sources say the institution holds from the smaller set of aircraft histories already connected to the Air Archive.
- Vought F4U CorsairOn Display
- Bell 47 HelicopterOn Display
- British Airways Concorde G-BOADOn Display · G-BOAD · 100-010
- F4D SkyrayOn Display
- Lockheed A-12On Display
- Grumman F-14 TomcatOn Display
- Vought F-8 CrusaderOn Display
- Grumman TBF/TBM AvengerOn Display
- FJ-3 FuryOn Display
Open full museum-listed inventory (9 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Bell 47 Helicopter | On Display | — |
| British Airways Concorde G-BOAD | On Display | G-BOAD · 100-010 |
| Grumman F-14 Tomcat F-14 Tomcat | On Display | — |
| Vought F-8 Crusader F-8K Crusader | On Display | — |
| F4D Skyray | On Display | — |
| Vought F4U Corsair FG-1D Corsair | On Display | — |
| FJ-3 Fury | On Display | — |
| Lockheed A-12 | On Display | — |
| Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger TBM Avenger | On Display | — |
Aircraft histories connected to this museum
These links connect museum holdings to aircraft histories already in the Trackpads Air Archive. They are not intended to imply that every museum aircraft has a dedicated archive profile yet.