Airplanes

A hangar at Marathon Key’s airport is now an ode to aviation history.

An airplane wing is a roadside art installation and monument on a remote stretch of highway.

A tiny airplane-shaped monument marks the story of Taiwan’s first civilian pilot and his fatal crash in 1934.

A moving memorial to the first flight across the Alps and its tragic outcome.

Visitors can tour this retired East German jetliner, and even get married inside.

Crash site of a US National Guard C-47B plane that attempted to land at Gustavus airport in 1957 in bad weather.

During World War II, locals rallied together to buy this plane to support the war effort.

In a strip mall parking lot, an airplane with a cafe inside, flanked by a giant statue of Fred Flintstone.

A monument marking the first airplane flights in Japan hints at the dark history behind its peaceful park setting.

Inside an airport, visitors can explore this museum where history takes flight.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.

Not all airplanes are found in hangars or on runways, but this wayward fuselage seems out of place in its odd rural resting place.

This distinctive blue and white jet fighter is a symbol of the area’s relationship with aviation.

A museum of Hungarian military aviation in the middle of a small city.

This replica pays tribute to the first powered and sustained flight in the United Kingdom and the eccentric aviator who enabled it.

Once a slice of Cold War-era military history, this museum is finding its future in the stars.