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Air and Space Museum Annex Gets a Name
By Alex Canizares
Special to space.com
posted: 06:04 pm ET
26 January 2000
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annex_help_000126 WASHINGTON (States News Service) -- The National Air and Space Museum's yet-to-be-finished annex in Northern Virginia finally has a name. It will be called the Stephen F. Udvar-Hazy Center after the man who last year gave the museum $60 million, making him its biggest donor. Udvar-Hazy (pictured above) is a Hungarian immigrant who made a fortune in the airplane-leasing business. The decision to name the annex, located at Washington Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, Virginia, came after a vote Monday by the museum's board of regents. The board also voted to name an aircraft observation tower at the annex after former museum director Donald Engen, who died in a plane crash last year. Engen, a retired Navy vice admiral, had been a military pilot. The museum is currently raising funds for the annex that is scheduled to open in December 2003. It is to house more than 100 spacecraft and 180 aircraft. Among the exhibits will be a supersonic SR 71 Blackbird spy plane, the B 29 "Enola Gay" which bombed Hiroshima in World War 2 and Space Shuttle Enterprise, which never was put in orbit, but was used in shuttle approach-and-landing tests in the late 1970s.
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