San Diego Air & Space Museum
Aviation museum of historic aircraft and spacecraft, risen from a nineteen seventy-eight arson fire.
On the evening of February 22, 1978, witnesses in Balboa Park watched two figures crouch beside the Electric Building, feeding lit paper into an air vent to warm themselves. Within minutes the fire had spread into a three-alarm blaze that consumed the San Diego Air & Space Museum's entire collection, nearly sixty aircraft and a flying replica of the Spirit of Saint Louis among them. The guide follows the two decades detectives spent suspecting a serial arsonist was loose in the park, and the fire chief who finally reopened the case in 2001. Stand inside the old Ford Building, the museum's rebuilt home, and you're standing in what volunteers and donors raised from that loss.
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