The museum
The aviation museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park interprets aircraft design, engineering and aerospace exploration with an extensive catalog of historic airframes. Its displays connect local aerospace manufacturing to the wider story of flight.
The aviation museum in San Diego’s Balboa Park interprets aircraft design, engineering and aerospace exploration with an extensive catalog of historic airframes. Its displays connect local aerospace manufacturing to the wider story of flight.
The aircraft collection concentrates on early California flight, naval aviation, World War II aircraft and jet-age military design. The official collection catalog is paginated and includes both actual aircraft and spacecraft. The aircraft entries selected here were located on the museum’s aircraft listing; Apollo command modules, rockets and models are outside this particular aircraft inventory.
The aircraft entries below are selected records from the institution’s own collection pages, not a claim to reproduce its entire inventory. A type shown in a museum catalog is not automatically available for inspection: restoration, loan, operational, and reserve storage arrangements can change. Where the catalog does not establish current public display, these records retain an unknown display status.
What defines the collection
early California flight, naval aviation, World War II aircraft and jet-age military design
What to expect
The official collection catalog is paginated and includes both actual aircraft and spacecraft. The aircraft entries selected here were located on the museum’s aircraft listing; Apollo command modules, rockets and models are outside this particular aircraft inventory.
What the museum holds
6 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.
- McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIUnknown
- Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17Unknown
- Consolidated PBY-5A CatalinaUnknown
- Curtiss A-1 TriadUnknown
- Curtiss B-1 RobinUnknown
- Douglas SBD-4 DauntlessUnknown
Open full museum-listed inventory (6 entries)
| Aircraft | Status | Identity |
|---|---|---|
| Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina | Unknown | — |
| Curtiss A-1 Triad | Unknown | — |
| Curtiss B-1 Robin | Unknown | — |
| Douglas SBD-4 Dauntless | Unknown | — |
| McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II | Unknown | — |
| Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-17 | Unknown | — |
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.