Welcome to the Goleta Air & Space Museum. Its primary themes are aviation, astronomy, and astronautics. Mostly it's an excuse to post my photographs taken at airshows, air museums, and hanging around the approaches to airports and military bases, etc. Its pages also contain links to aviation and space oriented web sites.

The Goleta Air & Space Museum is a one man operation. My name is Brian Lockett. I take most of the pictures, write the captions, create the pages, and make all the arbitrary editorial decisions.

Please note: The Goleta Air & Space Museum is just my web site. It is strictly virtual. There is no brick and mortar air museum in Goleta for people to visit. The Goleta Air & Space Museum is not affiliated with any other air museum, public or private. It's not nice to use my pictures on your web site without asking.*

Click on the images below to link to pages of photographs of air and space related subject matter:

I am auctioning some vintage tin lithograph airplane toys, desk models and ashtrays on eBay. These aviation antiques were manufactured in Japan and the United states in the 1950s and 1960s. See all of my auctions on eBay.

It's hard to beat the remarkable variety of airplanes and helicopters displayed at the Edwards Air Force Base Open House and Airshow.

The day before the Edwards Air Force Base Open House, flight crews rehearsed for the airshow.

A quarter of a million people assembled on a hot, cloudless, and windless day at Flight Test Nation 2009, the Edwards Air Force Base open house and airshow on Saturday, October 17. They were treated to performances by the US Army Golden Knights, John Collver, and Julie Clark. The Air Force demonstrated a Fairchild-Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II, Boeing-McDonnell-Douglas C-17A Globemaster 3, and Lockheed-Martin F-22A Raptor. The Tora, Tora, Tora show reenacted the attack on Pearl Harbor. All three of the Air Force heavy bomber types, B-52H Stratofortress, B-1B Lancer, and B-2A Spirit, flew past the crowd. It was the first public appearance of the Lockheed-Martin F-35A Lightning 2. Orbital Sciences displayed White Knight and White Knight 2. The Flight Test Center assembled a formation of ten airplanes from the 412th Test Wing for the finale.

An Atlas-V booster launched a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program satellite from SLC-3 at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 9:12 AM on Sunday, October 18. This version of the Atlas-V is not equipped with solid fuel boosters, so the exhaust contrail is much less visible than a Delta-II launch. The Lonmpoc Valley was filled with dense fog, forcing me to photograph the launch from the mountains west of Santa Barbara about 35 miles from SLC-3.

Updated October 28: Glen Boss photographed the Antonov An-225 at Honolulu on October 21. It has a new paint job with blue and yellow stripes.

The Antonov An-225 returned to Honolulu and then departed for Edmonton International Airport in Alberta, Canada as flight Flight ADB389F at 3:29 AM HST on Thursday, October 22. It arrives at Edmonton at 2:02 PM MDT. It departed from Edmonton for Nottingham East Midlands in England as Flight ADB3505 at 3:26 AM MDT on Friday, October 23.

The An-225 flew from Honolulu to Pago Pago on Sunday, October 18. Flight ADB3689 departed from Honolulu at 2:11 AM HST.

The An-225 flew from Houston to Honolulu on Friday, October 16. Flight ADB3689 departed from Houston at 9:27 PM CDT and arrived in Honolulu at 1:02 AM HST on Saturday, October 17.

The An-225 flew from Honolulu to Houston on Thursday, October 15. Flight ADB388F was scheduled to depart from Honolulu at 8:20 AM HST and arrive in Houston at 9:42 PM CDT. It took off at 10:41 AM HST and is expected to arrive at Houston at 12:21 AM CDT. The An-225 will fly over LAX, Palm Springs, Blythe, Casa Grande, El Paso, and San Antonio on its way to Houston. Watch for the plane with six contrails.

The Antonov An-225 flew to Pago Pago on October 13 to deliver generators to American Samoa after stopping over in Honolulu on October 12. Antonov Design Bureau flight ADB3688 departed from Honolulu for Pago Pago at 12:32 GMT. It also stopped at Ontario, California on Sunday, October 11.

A Delta-II booster launched the Worldview 2 satellite from SLC-2 at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:51 AM on Thursday, October 8.

A fleet of Aero Tech Air Tractor AT-802A turbo-props is dropping hydromulch on burned areas of the Santa Ynez Mountains above Santa Barbara and Goleta. They are serviced at the old tanker station at the west end of the flightline.

Boeing 747 Carrier Aircraft N911NA took off with the Space Shuttle Discovery at 6:20 AM PDT on Sunday morning for the ferry flight to the Kennedy Space Center. The first stop will be at Amarillo, Texas. The pair stopped at Naval Air Station Fort Worth, Texas and continued to Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana later in the day. They will complete the flight to Kennedy Space Center tomorrow.

Each year five test pilots are honored at the Aerospace Walk of Honor in Lancaster. New plaques honoring Lieutenant Colonel Harry Andonian, USAF, John A. Fergione, Brigadier General James A. McDivitt, USAF, Jack Fraser Woodman, and Jean L. "Skip" Ziegler were unveiled at the Aerospace Walk of Honor at 10:30 AM on Saturday, September 19, 2009. The Walk of Honor is located at the intersection of Lancaster Boulevard and Sierra Highway.

Two of my Gigapan panoramas are on display at the Antelope Valley Allied Arts Cedar Center Gallery in Lancaster as part of the Aerospace Walk of Honor event. They will be displayed through next weekend. The gallery is located at the intersection of Lancaster Boulevard and Cedar Avenue, across from the library. It is open from Noon to 4:00 PM on Saturday and Sunday. I have been invited to put on a one-man show at the Cedar Gallery in December.

The Space Shuttle Discovery was suspended from the Mare/Demate Device at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center as it was prepared for loading aboard the Boeing 747 Carrier Aircraft on Thursday. The 747 is scheduled to take off on Sunday morning for the flight to the Kennedy Space Center.

Bad weather over Florida forced the Space Shuttle Discovery to wave off from its primary landing site and land at Edwards air Force Base in California at the conclusion of mission STS-128.

Wings Over Camarillo featured a variety of general aviation, homebuilt, and replica airplanes. The show wrapped up with an action packed warbird flyby that included a pair of Lockheed P-38 Lightnings and a replica Supermarine Spitfire. North American B-25 Mitchell Executive Sweet provided rides for aviation buffs.

At the time of the building of the LZ-126 and LZ-127, the Zeppelin Airship Company produced portfolios of photographs documenting their construction and early flights.

Boilerplate Orion Crew Module PA-1 was loaded aboard an Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster III at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center on August 18, 2009. It will be flown to Holloman Air Force Base and then trucked to the White Sands Missile Range for the first Launch Abort System (LAS) Pad Abort Test.

The Mojave Airport hosted another Plane Crazy Saturday fly-in on August 15. It showcased the local air racers that will be participating in the reno Air Races next month. The next Plane Crazy Saturday is scheduled for September 19.

A flyover by a Lockheed C-130T Hercules of VR-55 based at NAS Pt. Mugu marked the beginning of the Fiesta Equestrian Parade at noon on Friday, August 7.

The most recent additions to displays of the museum are listed on the New Displays Page.

Displays of various types of aircraft, ordered roughly by the dates of their first flights.

Events in chronological order.

Displays of aircraft arranged by location.

I am now a beta tester for the Gigapan robotic camera mount. It automates the process of capturing multiple images to assemble into a panorama. My earlier panoaramas were typically composed of 24 pictures and contained about 70 megapixels. Now I am producing panoramas assembled from over 500 images and containing over two billion pixels. My Gigapan ID is GoletaBrian.

The Goleta Natural History Museum is home to displays of photographs of landscapes of the Southwestern U. S., springtime wildflowers in the Antelope Valley, and wildlife in Antarctica.

Displays about particular topics that don't fit the above categories.

Older displays grouped by the year of creation.

My photographs can also be seen in other internet galleries.

Links to other web sites with aviation and space themes.

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