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Rocket Smog
Los Angeles, CA
2013:
 2022:
Rocket Smog was a smog inspection shop. It had been here since at least 1997. The shop had been closed since 2015. In 2019, the building was housing LG Exotic Auto Transport and a plumbing company. The building now houses Space Flyt, a marijuana dispensary. [map]

Jets Statue
Owatonna, MN
 Flying Saucer
Haslett, MI
 Flying Saucer
Everett, WA
This Jets Statue depicts three T-38 jets flying in formation. They are painted in the Air Force's Thunderbirds colors. This statue used to be at a nearby air museum which is now closed. It is now installed next to I-35 near the Owatonna Regional Airfield. For more, see this website. [map]

This Flying Saucer in Haslett is located at Contractors Repair. [map]

This Flying Saucer in Everett was built by Peter Reiquam in 2010. The sculpture, entitled "Landing Zone", is 16 feet wide and 14 feet high. It is located in Paine Field Community Park. For more, see this website. [map]

Flying Saucer
Winter Park, FL (now Orlando, FL)
This Flying Saucer is located at Skycraft Surplus which opened in 1974. It originally revolved and the lights flashed. Just after these photos were taken in 2021, the store moved to Orlando. The Flying Saucer is being restored and will be installed on the new store's sign pole. I believe the rockets will also be moved to the new location. [map]

Spaceship
Mobile, AL
 Spaceship
Wallace, ID
This Spaceship in Mobile is located at Toomey's Mardi Gras. It was installed around 2013. These Flying Saucers were mass-produced and there are still a few others like this around the country. [map]

This Spaceship in Wallace was installed in front of the Red Light Garage antiques store and restaurant in 2009. It came from a movie prop store in Spokane, WA. [map]

Flying Saucer
Lathrop, CA
This Flying Saucer appears to have crash landed on the roof of a Tower Mart gas station convenience store. It is about 30 feet in diameter. It has been there since at least 2007. Inside the store, there are aliens consuming and stealing groceries. The other side of the Flying Saucer projects through to the interior. For more, see this website. [map]

More Flying Saucers:
Burbank, CA [gone]
Sacramento, CA
Platteville, CO
Plymouth, FL [gone]
Asbury Park, NJ
Roswell, NM
Socorro, NM
Mars, PA
Bowman, SC
Blountville, TN
Rogersville, TN
Austin, TX
Seattle, WA
Moonbeam, ON

Lunar Lander
Warren, OH
 Space Shuttle
Melbourne, FL
The Lunar Lander is a half-scale replica of the Apollo 11 Lunar Module. It is installed at the site where astronaut Neil Armstrong took his first airplane flight when he was six years old with his father. Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. For more, see this website. [map]

This 1/15th scale Space Shuttle is about 13 feet tall. It is located at the Space Coast Stadium. This model was originally built by Rockwell International and presented to the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC in 1981. There may have been others built after that. This one supposedly came from NASA and was installed at the Stadium in 1994. [map]

Space Shuttle
Los Angeles, CA
 Space Shuttle
Burbank, CA
This Space Shuttle in Los Angeles is installed as a memorial built in 1990 to honor the Challenger crew and especially Colonel Ellison Shoji Onizuka who was the first Japanese American astronaut. The crew died during the Challenger explosion in 1986. This fiberglass Space Shuttle and boosters are 18 feet tall. The memorial was restored in 2011. For more, see this website. [map]

This Space Shuttle in Burbank was installed in 2007 as a tribute to the Challenger crews who died in 1986 and 2003. This Shuttle is 21 feet long and is located next to the Portal of the Folded Wings Shrine to Aviation in Valhalla Memorial Park. For more, see this website. [map]

Lunar Lander and Partial Rocket
Pearlington, MS
The Lunar Lander and Partial Rocket are located at the NASA Stennis Visitor Center which is part of the INFINITY Science Center. The Lunar Lander was built during the 1960s for Apollo astronauts' training to exit and enter the vehicle during moon landings. After that, the Lander was moved to NASA's Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. In 1997, it was restored and moved to the Mississippi Welcome Center. In 2019, it was moved to its current location. The Partial Rocket is the first stage of the Saturn V rocket which was to be used for the canceled Apollo 19 mission. It was built in 1970 and has been at the Science Center since 2016. There is also an Apollo 4 command module from 1967 on display. For more, see this website. [map]

More Rockets & Spacecraft:
Santa's Rocket Ship (Tok, AK)
Space Shuttle (Adairsville, GA)
Gardner Dry Cleaning (Louisville, KY) [map]
TWA Rocket (Kansas City, MO)
Rocket (Cambridge, ON)

Giant Paper Airplane
Mukilteo, WA
 Giant Paper
Airplane
Pueblo, CO
This Giant Paper Airplane in Mukilteo is installed over the entrance of Dillon Works. The airplane is fiberglass and 26 feet long. It was produced by Dillon Works which manufactures props and sculptures of all kinds. [map]

The Giant Paper Airplane in Pueblo is located at CSU, Colorado State University. It was created in 1988 by Phil Vallejo when he was a student there. The steel sculpture is entitled "Three Fold Education."

Giant Paper Airplane
Los Angeles, CA
 Giant Paper Airplane
Sacramento, CA
This Giant Paper Airplane in Los Angeles is installed on top of a shopping center sign. The Van Nuys Airport is located across the street. [map]

This Giant Paper Airplane in Sacramento is located at the Executive Airport. It has been there since at least 2007. The Airplane was designed to move when the wind blows. It is installed over a fountain which has been turned off due to the drought. [map]

Giant Paper Airplane
Scottsdale, AZ
This Giant Paper Airplane is 108 feet long. It is installed on top of the Scottsdale Hangar One. The building is used as a private aviation club and event space. The building and plane were built in 2003. [map]

Giant Paper Airplane
Abilene, TX
 Giant Paper Airplane
Lincoln, NE
This Giant Paper Airplane in Abilene is about 30 feet long and made of wood. It is located at the Sparhawk Art Gallery and Bed and Breakfast. The Airplane was built by D.R. Sparhawk around 2012. It was modeled after Lance Yang's origami F-15. For more, see this website. [map]

This steel Giant Paper Airplane in Lincoln points the way to the Lincoln Airport. It is 32 feet long and was created by Shannon Hansen in 2015. [map]

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