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Huge NASM grant

The National Air and Space Museum has received a surety of $60,000,000 - the largest forever contribution to the Smithsonian -- from Steven F Udvar-Hazy of Beverly Hills, California. Udvar-Hazy, president and CEO of International Lease Finance Corp., stated he was "pleased to support the Smithsonian and its planned fresh NASM Dulles Center." The donation is a philanthropic contribution from Udvar-Hazy, his company and his family's foundation. His gift has been pledg athwart a four-year period with the first installment of $10000000 to be made in 2000

"All my life, I have been committed to aviation and the industry's advancement and unfolding and it is an honor for my family and company to solidify the museum's mission of restoring, preserving and displaying our aviation heritage," Udvar-Hazy said in a epistle to NASM acting director Donald Lopez

"The NASM was established to guard and display America's aviation and flight history and, judging by way of the millions who visit the museum each year, we've done a fine piece of work so far," said Lopez. "But we have in the way that many artifacts that cannot be seen through the public because we lack the space to fitly restore and exhibit them. This extraordinary contribution brings us closer to realizing our dream - to build a facility big enough to exhibit to hundreds of our air and space treasures."

Udvar-Hazy's entire donation will advance toward the Dulles Center, which is awaited to open in December 2003 the centennial of the Wright Brothers' first flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Located forward a 176-- acre site at Washington Dulle International Airport in northern Virginia, the center's spacious museum will be fireside to hundreds of airplanes and spacecraft that cannot be displayed in the National Mall museum because there is not enough range The entire Mall museum could fit inside the center's aviation hangar - with place to spare!

Among the artifacts to be onward exhibit in the 71 0,000-square-foot center will be the Space Shuttle Enterprise, B-29 Enola Gay- the actual aircraft that dropp the atomic bomb onward Hiroshima, a 1917 Curtiss Jenny an SR-71 Blackbird, and the P-51 C that was flown through the North Pole in 1951 Many of these prized artifacts are now temporarily housed in the museum's Paul E Garber Facility in Suitland, Maryland. The antiquated building in which aircraft are stored do not suitable museum standards - they have no humidity have charge ofs or air-conditioning, and only a scarcely any are heated, The restoration store where dedicated staff and offers spend thousands of hours restoring a single plane, is also located at Garber and will be mov to fresh quarters at the Dulles Center