Isaac AlexanderHappy place! Flying Heritage Collection at Paine Field.
@ikluft Question. So how many replica’s are there of Space Ship One? I forgot there was two in my area. One at Flying Heritage, the other at the Museum of Flight. There’s one in Mojave I think you told me. The real one is in downtown DC at Air and Space. Trying to think of other places.
Ian Kluft ✅✈️🎈🌋@JetCityStar 5 SpaceShipOne replicas were made from the same molds as the original.Sometimes its tricky to follow moves. Original SS1 is at Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in downtown Washington DC.
Replicas:
* One stayed at Mojave Air & Space Port
* Bakersfield Airport BFL terminal representing Kern County
* EAA Museum, Oshkosh
* Flying Heritage Collection, Everett (because Paul Allen funded SS1)
* Museum of Flight, Seattle (originally at Google, then Chabot Science Center, Oakland)
@JetCityStar During @Leighton's visit to America this past Summer, I showed him the SpaceShipOne replica in Mojave and you showed us the one at Museum of Flight. At the time I wasn't aware that one had been moved from Chabot Center in Oakland. MoF is a much more fitting location. That one was purchased by Google back when they tried to be cool. After displaying it in an office building, they got bored and donated it to the Chabot Space & Science Center, who couldn't fund a proper display.
@JetCityStar @Leighton Of course I've told you I was there to see all three of SpaceShipOne's space flights at Mojave in 2004. Some pics from Oct 4, 2004 when SS1 won the X-Prize (for 2 crewed flights above 100km/328,084ft with the same spacecraft within 14 days) and beat the X-15 winged-flight altitude record.
Trivia: the tail number N328KF represented the goal altitude 328,000ft (K=thousand) because reg number N100KM was already taken by a glider.
Trivia: the tail number N328KF represented the goal altitude 328,000ft (K=thousand) because reg number N100KM was already taken by a glider.
@ikluft Thank you Ian! 🙏
John Clear@ikluft @JetCityStar
The one from Chabot appears to have been moved to the HIller Museum. https://www.hiller.org/space-ship-one/
Not sure where MoF got theirs.
@jclear @JetCityStar Hmmm... Like I said, it's tricky to follow when SS1 replicas move without notice. While trying to check up on last known locations, I found pictures of one in Dallas that was not on the list that I was told. It's starting to look like either there were more than 5 or more were built later. We should also check if the one from the Bakersfield Airport terminal is still there. This past Summer when I saw it at Seattle MoF, at first I thought it was moved down from Everett.
@jclear @JetCityStar I thought I had a handle on where the SS1 replicas were. Long ago I saw the SS1 molds in Masten Space's building in Mojave where the previous tenant X-Prize Foundation left them after making the replicas.
It was an odd circumstance spotting an SS1 replica in the back of the MSS shop, and asking the guys what that was doing there. They said the spaceport asked them to keep it there until the display park was ready for it. I had to shut up on a mail list thread looking for it.
It was an odd circumstance spotting an SS1 replica in the back of the MSS shop, and asking the guys what that was doing there. They said the spaceport asked them to keep it there until the display park was ready for it. I had to shut up on a mail list thread looking for it.
@ikluft @JetCityStar Wikipedia didn't have HIller on it's list of replicas (added now) or MoF or Dallas.
According to this article, six replicas were made https://www.space.com/6315-latest-mock-spaceshipone-soars-sponsor-museum.html , so OSH, BFL, MHV, PAE, BFI, SQL are in theory all of them
@jclear @JetCityStar Thx. Too bad I didn't know about this when I was in Dallas in April 2024 for the solar eclipse. I would have checked out the Frontiers of Flight Museum at DAL if I knew they had a replica, especially one of mysterious origin. I don't know if it was one of the XPrize Foundation official replicas, or an unofficial one made later. This photo site says it's on loan from St Louis Science Center. I saw an SLSC logo on my 2004-10-04 pics of SS1 Flight 17P. https://www.american-spacecraft.org/virgin-galactic/model-texas.html