Replica of First Carrier qualified UAV, X-47B on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum

Drone on display at the National Naval Aviation Museum | sUAS News

The new replica of Northrop Grumman’s X-47B UCAS stealth UAV at the National Naval Aviation Museum isn’t so much historic as it is a symbol of flight history in the making.

LEM Mockup in Hangar Bay One

It joins another historic mockup, a full-scale replica of the Apollo Lunar Excursion Module on display in Hangar Bay One

X47B lands carrier landing

 With a wingspan of 62 feet, the new exhibit is a full-scale mock-up of the first unmanned aircraft to land on an aircraft carrier. That event was last July aboard the USS George H.W. Bush while the vessel was operating off the coast of Virginia. “The actual aircraft will eventually be coming to this museum, but it’s still undergoing testing,” said Hill Goodspeed, the museum’s historian. “In the meantime, this replica is on loan from the manufacturer.”