Air Force & Army Air Corps Places

The South Dakota Air & Space Museum boasts an extensive collection of artifacts and documents that capture the distinguished history of Ellsworth Air Force Base, the 44th Strategic Missile Wing, and the 28th Bomb Wing throughout the Cold War.

Built in 1962 as a Minuteman missile launch control facility, Quebec-01 was re-purposed for the Peacekeeper Missile in 1986 and was used until 2005. Twenty-five miles north of Cheyenne, the Quebec 01 Missile Alert Facility is open to the public as a Wyoming State Park.

The Klamath River Radar Station B-71 is a rare, surviving World War II early-warning radar station. Rather than using camouflage materials, the buildings of Radar Station B-71 were constructed to resemble farm buildings to disguise their true purpose.

From 1963 until the early 1990s, the missile silo at Delta-09 contained a fully operational Minuteman Missile, bearing a 1.2 megaton nuclear warhead. The Delta-09 missile silo was one of 150 spread across western South Dakota. In total there were 1,000 Minuteman's deployed from the 1960's into the early 1990's. Visitors can now tour the site on their own.

Delta-01 functioned as topside support for the underground Launch Control Center which lay 31 feet below the Launch Control Facility. It acted as a multi-purpose facility. To see the interior of Delta-01, visitors need to attend a ranger-guided tour. Due to the size of the elevator and the confined space underground, tours are limited to 6 visitors at a time.

Nike Site Summit in Anchorage, Alaska, was a last line of defense against Soviet bombers during the cold war. Nuclear armed Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missiles stood ready to launch at a moments notice between 1959 and 1979.

The National Aviation Heritage Area honors the invention and continued innovation of aviation and aerospace technology that transformed our national development and the global economy.

Oscar-One is one of two remaining Minuteman II launch control facilities, and is preserved on the grounds of Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri