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Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center for its chief benefactor, the museum will house nearly 80 percent of Air and Space’s collection, most of which has been in mothballs for years.
One of the most famous attractions in the new museum, the B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, for example, has not been fully assembled in more than a quarter century, Dailey said.
Another 10 percent of the museum’s collection is routinely on loan or tour.
Udvar-Hazy, who created a fortune leasing commercial airliners, donated $65 million to kick start construction on the museum. But it’s Dailey, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, who is responsible for piloting the $311 million project and ensuring an on-time arrival Dec. 15, just in time to celebrate the centennial of the first powered flight by the
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