Introduction to the Aviation and Space Museum: The predecessor of the Aviation and Space Museum was the Beijing Aviation Museum established in 1986. It is China's first comprehensive aviation science and technology museum open to the public. What is particularly amazing are the more than 20 aircraft on display in the aviation museum. They not only reflect the characteristics of the world's aviation development in different periods, but are also of great cultural relic collection value, including many treasures and orphans in the aircraft. For example, in World War II, the British all-wooden twin-engine "Mosquito" light bomber, the American twin-engine night bomber P-61; the "Mustang" P-51, and the "Thunder" P-47; the earliest equipment to participate in actual combat The radar-equipped night fighter "Black Widow" P-61 (only two exist in the world); especially the earliest twin-engine light transport aircraft "Beijing No. 1" designed by China (Beihang University). The construction of the museum will be completed before the 60th anniversary of Beihang University in 2012. The main building is 20.4 meters tall and has a total construction area of ​​15,983.33 square meters.

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